Spotlight on the Drivers of Innovation

*Broadband + Social Innovation = Globally Competitive Communities

As everyone, and everything, is rapidly becoming interconnected, communities and nations will compete directly on the GNP generated from their ability to measurably mine raw human potential. A key competitive factor regarding which communities and nations will be most successful, will be sustaining “best practices” strategies to motivate and support the majority of potential learners at all levels.

As everyone learns that they can now learn anything they choose online, individuals, communities, and nations will compete on their ability to self-educate, leverage effective collaboration, and stimulate their collective ability to creatively innovate. In an age of accelerating change, “best practices” for keeping everyone up to the same instant of progress, will be continually evolving.

New Freedoms and Hard Choices

But, there is a big question as to whether anyone has yet discovered how to motivate the majority of citizens to want to become members of a learning society where;
“Everyone is both learner and teacher, both consumer and producer, all the time.”

The former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment reports "The diversity of innovative applications required to create a successful national information infrastructure can only come from the citizens themselves."

Early Adapters; Growing a Local Learning Society

The innovation diffusion bell curve starts with early adapters, such as entrepreneurs and innovators, representing 10-15% of the population. In our age of accelerating innovation, the challenge is that if roughly 15% of any community are early adapters, that leaves 85% as not open to new ideas or motivated to learn how they might benefit from trying new things. Those without an interest in learning new things will suffer a growing disadvantage. Currently, the data shows that the majority of Americans would rather watch movies, play video games, and/or view pornography, than engage in self-directed education and/or entrepreneurship.

There is no heavier burden than a great potential
(Charlie brown aka Charles Schulz)

Individual early adapters are open to new ideas, and willing to try new things, typically eager to learn by doing, and willing to accept risk. Sharing success stories on how these traits allow innovators to benefit would be a logical way to begin growing a local learning society, and a culture of innovation, and inclusion. Missing is a “trusted mutual support network,” an informal community learning network innovation - that people can believe in – with grassroots accountability. Now that many of us have “adopted” the physical infrastructure, (pay monthly for broadband) it is high time to take seriously creating the info-structure that justifies the investment.

Before us, is the challenge for how quickly we can first create a culture of use, then a culture of collaboration, leading to a culture of creativity, where everyone understands the exponential potential “Win-Win” of effective collaboration;
“If we all share what we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge.”

How much smarter can broadband make me and how fast?

What can anyone teach me; to make me smarter and more capable of understanding the possibilities, keeping current, and producing real benefits for myself and others?

Less is More – In this age of info-overload, we really need to learn what is, and is not, most important to know.

Connecting with the Real Potential of the Human Network;

1. A historical first: free access to the world’s knowledge base - allows anyone the opportunity to learn nearly anything they wish.

2. One person can make a real impact on the lives of many others, by what they do, and put online.

3. Social entrepreneurship opportunities to make a living while helping others are very real, and exponential benefits are possible as more and more people make the choice to collaborate effectively. (As crowd-sourcing successes have proven.) 

Achieving Ownership of the “Opportunity Discovery Process”

Key principles for Teaching the Innovation Process

1. Learn to proactively seek out what’s working for others, and study the

  innovations of others - for inspiration

2. Understand anyone can copy working models, and/or mashup key ideas, to

  create something original

3. Explore the new business models which show a clear trend toward engaging consumers; social media, crowd-sourcing, sharing free resources, and more.

4. Communities need to self-assess how well they encourage local innovators

Our society often ignores early adapters as traditionally many prefer that our world stay the same; as new things have proven in the past to be potentially disruptive. Creating a culture of innovation, that welcomes change instead of resents it, threatens the status quo for those whose current incomes depends on resisting change.

Silos, and Gatekeepers, as the Barriers to Innovation

Grassroots champions typically have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by trying new things. But, incumbents in our institutions and governments often see such innovations as potentially disruptive and something to be controlled. Our current state and federal governmental cultures are arguably centered around sustaining the politics of control in our respective silos, despite the inevitable trend toward lateral networking across silos.

In Times of Change; Learners Inherit the Earth

Eric Fromm

Spotlight on why innovators will come out ahead;

1. The tools are becoming easier, more powerful, more mobile, and more integrated.

2. The volume of replicable innovations are proliferating exponentially for anyone interested to easily see and learn from, online.

3. Many innovations can be easily copied, and/or mashed-up to create new innovations.

There is infinite potential as the boom in grassroots innovations has demonstrated.

4. Sharing with other innovators can create a trusted mutual support network where everyone wins. This is in direct contrast to 20^th century competitive thinking. Cisco has coined the term “coopetition” as cooperative competition as appropriate for the 21^st century.

The Boom in Bottom-Up Innovations Outperforms the best R&D of Universities, Corporations and Governments

With two billion online, the sheer volume of innovative minds who have been able to self-educate online and learn from the best online existing innovations in order to generate an unprecedented volume of new ideas is a profoundly important phenomenon.

“Crowd-sourcing” has been proven to outperform the innovation generation R&D of our best universities, corporations, and governments. Refined crowd-sourcing techniques are rapidly evolving after dramatically successful “innovation competitions” hosted by the FCC, Knight Foundation, Verizon and others.

The Top-Down Has to Learn How to Partner Meaningfully with the Bottom-UP

Crowd-sourcing dynamics offer a dynamic of diverse innovation generation by those closest to the specific needs of citizens. In Kenya, $20 billion was exchanged in 2014 via simple text messages, as but one example.

Top Down innovations are still obviously important, but the cost-effectiveness depends on the specific type of innovations sought.

In 2014, Apple paid out $12 billion in commissions to app creators, noting services exist where anyone can now create for-profit apps without learning to write code. As Code becomes plug and play subroutines, anyone can drag and drop subroutines to near instantly create original app, particularly for specific local businesses.

This “Trend” suggests that Mass Mobilization and Motivation for Most Americans can be fast-tracked, particularly with smart support services, accelerated video instruction, and volunteer local mentors. These, and other trends, are currently “under the radar” for overwhelmed leaders who just don’t have skills to know how to keep up on what’s rapidly happening around them.

Digital Entrepreneurship Historic Firsts

Digital entrepreneurship has many unique attributes. It is now possible to create a micromultinational web-based business in minutes at no cost, but how many of us know how, or have done so? There are thousands of examples online created by individuals, even teenagers, that due to a ready online market of 2 billion, have enjoyed sudden success. Free tools offer international trade opportunities, translation to 80 languages, and much more, but the pace of accelerating change has outstripped the willingness of entrenched bureaucracies to learn to adapt by embracing these new opportunities.

Digital entrepreneurship new realities are in dramatic contrast to “how we’ve always done things” such as requiring a 3 year business plan, and capital investments to build a brick and mortar business.

Most new jobs since 1980 come from new firms less than 5 years old, and 86% of jobs come from small businesses with less than 12 employees. Large companies have not been creating a significant number of new jobs, and due to new technological efficiencies, they have been cutting jobs.

95% of Internet uses shop online, yet only 58% of businesses have a website.

16,000 communities compete for an average of 400 corporate relocations annually(?)

The Kansas city google project states economic success leveraging Gigabit access will require addressing the reality that this is “90% sociology and 10% infrastructure.” Now that ARRA monies have been spent, the hoped for scalable innovations to roll out nationally, may still be missing, noting BTOP invested only 3.5 % in training innovations.

The Kansas City playbook is listed with the final BTOP Toolkit and other broadband “toolkits” at http://innovativecommunities.pbworks.com

Social Innovation Across Multiple Platforms for Innovation

There are many emerging “platforms for innovation” which beg the issue of who is responsible for innovations once the infrastructure is in place?

1. Broadband and the National Broadband Plan’s projections for socioeconomic impacts

2. FTTH and Gigacities; How long until we know the real impacts?

3. Social media as personal learning networks; mobile learning and mobile commerce. Ex. Last year, in Kenya $20 billion was exchanged via text msgs

4. Egov by sector; public safety, telehealth, education, economic development, energy: Can the Top Down learn to partner meaningfully with the Bottom Up?

5. Crowd-sourcing works: Effective collaboration produces an exponentially return as more and more people contribute; the greater the benefits to everyone, with the potential to lower costs and improve services. The boom in bottom up innovations has far outperformed the R&D ROI of universities, corporations, and governments. *FCC, Verizon, and Knight Foundation crowd-sourcing initiatives have been wildly successful.

6. Distance Education via Open Education initiatives
http://atlas.edupunksguide.org/

The most scalable affordable educational option in history.

7. Inclusive Local Innovation Incubators
http://lone-eagles.com/montana-mainstreet.htm
We will make it or break it at the local level.

While specific businesses might have a platform preference, the question is how do all these platforms fit smartly together as our National Information Infrastructure?

Creating a culture of belief in ourselves and each other

Creating a culture of belief that great things are possible, is the immediate need for many individuals, communities, and neighborhoods.

Whether we believe in ourselves as capable of achieving success, being innovative or able to learn new things, particularly with learning digital skills, is a function of those around us; our peers, family, community, and culture. Whether or not you believe you will be able to tap into your own wellspring of creativity, and self-directedness, often depends on what those around you try to convince you about your potential.

Authenticating Best Practices: Measurements Define Success

As the tools become steadily easier and more powerful, part of the solution is to keep everyone up to the same instant of progress with the most efficient empowerment strategies possible as they continually evolve. Gathering and disseminating new “best practices” for unlocking latent human potential across all demographics will the determining factor in our age of accelerating change as part of a global learning society.

Those who choose to not believe this is true will suffer the consequences as the evidence around them continues to grow on most effective dynamics by which to sustain global competitiveness.

We need to emphasize eco-development solutions as inherently requiring ongoing sharing of emerging best practices; as a combination of being proactive and helping citizens be “in the loop” with updates, feeds, distance learning and sustaining communities of practice as trusted mutual support networks.

It is a fact, rural communities and states often do not make an effort to learn from what others are doing, despite the opportunity for benefiting by copying what's already working for others, like them. The “not invented here syndrome,” and similar self-defeating attitudes need to be recognized as key barriers to rural innovation.

There are many digital literacy portals touting best practices, but without any serious comparison or evaluation for what is truly a ‘best practice’ with a specific outcome. Missing are the best resources proven to be suitable to most people requiring the least time, energy, cost, and prerequisite literacy to deliver a defined benefit, skill, or new capability. Such best practices training need to be identified by specific demographic, from single parents, to seniors, and focusing on the most relevant first skills, such as the ability to shop online and realize significant monthly savings.

Time Management in the Age of Info-overload

As networks get faster, and the devices become smaller, easier to use, more powerful, integrated, and interconnected, they consume more and more of our precious time keeping up.

The pace of change is accelerating, the volume of information is expanding exponentially, the race is on to connect to faster networks while at the same time we want less information…but of higher quality.

The limitations of our time push us to seek out only that information that can make a positive difference in our lives. Smartphones can alert us at the very moment we receive another text, email, voicemail, and many other social feeds. The quality of this information depends on how smart our friends are, and those we are following in hopes of receiving insights and learning what’s working best.

Apps Needed to Serve Low Income Groups

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3025472/now-that-everyones-got-a-smartphone-we-need-apps-that-serve-low-income-groups?partner=rss Recommending YELP for social services.

Innovation Variables That Require Careful Assessment:

Physical bandwidth is the variable for how fast we can send or receive information and whether we can receive streaming video and/or large volume files or not. Most essential information is not in a large file format requiring speeds beyond 4mb.

Human bandwidth is the variable for whether we’re well connected or not, to smart people. In many cases, fast bandwidth is not necessarily required. Mobile devices outsell PC’s 4:1 and social media is fast becoming our personal learning network.

Value Bandwidth is whether the information we are receiving is of benefit or not.

In many cases, fast bandwidth is not necessarily required. Less is more in the age of info-overload. Timely specific good answers to our immediate needs is “value bandwidth.”

Accelerating Ongoing Learning

How broadband can help people become better informed, educated and enriched:

Open Education initiatives are proliferating and offer global access to a dramatically growing body of knowledge. But, how many of us know where to go, or have identified specific learning goals? Or know someone who has tangibly benefited, or can lead us forward?

Open Education Atlas and Guide

http://atlas.edupunksguide.org/

Apps are replacing websites as well as learning management systems, and our mobile devices, presuming we’ve mastered their capabilities, can serve as our personal learning networks, providing near instantly far more than driving directions, weather reports, and comparison shopping services.

Apps are providing services that are faster, easier, and better. How app savvy are you?

The Good News:

We have to reevaluate these new powerful opportunities that broadband offers us.

New technologies have removed, or are removing, many barriers regarding access, cost, and ease of use.

The Bad News:

We’ve been hyped into believing we don’t need to do or learn anything, just pay the monthly subscription (called adoption) and mystically the clouds will part and the angels will sing.

The Gartner Hype Cycle Research
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Technology documents the history of new technologies being overhyped, until the practical, affordable applications become slowly recognized, and implemented.

Broadband offers the potential for anyone, anywhere anytime to literally learn, or teach, anything, to or from anyone, anywhere. But few are thus engaged, as we’ve yet to become a learning society. Broadband offers collaboration tools by which if we all share what we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge, but current cultural norms are to hoard knowledge not to share it.

Info-Diets: You ARE What You Feed Your Mind

It is profoundly important to understand that individual human potential development depends on how people choose to use their finite time, hour-by-hour, day-by-day. Never in human history have we had such easy access to literally anything we want to learn, or follow.

A citizen’s self-awareness of their own info-diet inputs and creative outputs, and the level of value both ways, begs the issue of whether or not we’re advocating for citizens to grow their capacities for handling increasing volumes of new knowledge, and their ability to better deal with complexity as an adaptive strategy in an age of accelerating change.

The shelf life of useful knowledge is shortening, so in many areas of pursuit, the past is far less important than the immediate present. Ex. Following new healthcare smartphone apps is a daily pursuit, and last year’s apps are less important than how one might project today’s trends to determine marketable innovations for the next one to six months.

What’s your optimal info-diet? How self-directed are you? (Rate your geekatude)
http://lone-eagles.com/academy-info-diet.htm

What Broadband Without Innovation Won’t Fix;

The nation's 17 largest cities have a HS dropout rate exceeding 50%. Native American reservations have 80%. K12 reforms must be major and if old ways persist, and youth are not motivated and measurably empowered more quickly with serious innovations, we'll have failed to utilize this essential platform for innovation.  

Costs for Higher Ed degrees have risen 600% since 1980, yet costs for online degrees are still kept as high as possible, and opportunities for engaging more learners at lower costs, with faster turnaround for marketable certificates has yet to be embraced by most institutions, despite the innovations of a few “early adapter” institutions. College graduates are finding far fewer jobs available, with most new jobs coming from Start-Ups less than five years old. The times they are a’changing!

Crabs, Community Building, and Attitudes toward innovation

If a community’s local culture chooses to believe opportunities to achieve digital success are not real, then the pressure is off to become self-directed learners.

The crab syndrome is common place. If you put a bunch of crabs in a basket and one tries to climb out, the others will pull him back in. There is safety in numbers. In a classroom, if one student raises his/her hand to answer a question by the teacher, often peers will scowl. “Who do you think you are?” Are you trying to make the rest of us look bad?

Are you trying to show off? Don’t you dare raise expectations for the rest of us!

Why would people choose to be crabs and resent success, individualism, self-directed learning, action oriented innovators, and self confidence? Likely, it is because of their own low self-esteem. Since we tend to establish our self-image and level of self confidence from those around us, this becomes a vicious self-defeating cycle that can, and must be reversed, as an undesirable cultural bad habit. In a world of accelerating change, this behavior destroys individual and community sustainability. It is a death wish. Our local cultures can empower and encourage, or inhibit and diminish our innate human potential as learners.

New Freedoms and Hard Choices

Did you know you can get a telework job to work from home? Some businesses will automatically monitor how many keystrokes per minute as your measure of performance. The minutes you spend in the bathroom will be monitored, and you will be docked pay beyond your quota.

Alternatively, you might create your own online business or service, and enjoy total flextime, and control, over how you spend the time in your life. Instead of a sweatshop job, providing boring repetitive services such as taking orders for Pizza Hut, making the choice to become self-employed, doing something you love doing, is no small choice.

Whether anyone can provide you a pathway to successful self-employment looms large as to what life you will lead. That huge and growing numbers of other folks being successful validate these opportunities are real, can be ignored, but at your peril.

The issue is personal self confidence, or the lack of it, and the skills to identify “What’s already working for others like you.”

Global dynamics are emerging; text messages in Africa allow farmer’s an average of a 30% increase in income, but informing them when market prices are idea. If 100 million citizens are bored and stuck in a low-end telework jobs, or whether they find support services and encouraging peer mentors for becoming motivated self-employed entrepreneurship, is potentially quantifiable. ( Ex. grameenfoundation.org)

What mobile broadband in Africa can teach America about fiber to the home
http://www.techpolicydaily.com/internet/mobile-broadband-africa-can-teach-america-fiber-home/

How Did 17 Million Kenyans Exchange $20 Billion Last Year?

https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/index.php?src=blog&print=y

Creating a Culture of Believers

Why would some people choose to disbelieve that anyone can achieve anything, in order to believe they should be comfortable living in poverty?

That because for many citizens, it is safer to believe you are a hapless victim, particularly if the government steps in to provide you a house, healthcare, foodstamps, and other services. If you start to show an ability to become self-sufficient, those around you might feel threatened that they might be expected to begin to unlock their potential, too. In short, past programs have created incentives for inaction, instead of rewarding proactive efforts.

Growth comes from “learning by doing” by taking action to see what can be achieved

Action or inaction becomes the big choice whether you are conscious or not, you are making this choice. And often others make this choice for you without you recognizing it.

Strategies for Measurable Mass Innovation Across America

Innovators, as early adapters, often become lone eagles, separating themselves from these negative cultural pressures, in order to enjoy the personal freedom to learn by doing, innovate, and explore the innovations of others.

Lone Eagle Learning Strategies for Individuals

There is an easy solution to dealing with negative peer pressure, “crabs.”

Decide to become a self-directed learner, a Lone Eagle capable of….

1. Keeping an open mind and seeking out what’s working for others like you; Learning from other innovators. The world is full of innovations from other lone eagles, and most are searchable online.

2. Find other open minded lone eagles willing to collaborate, and participate in the exponential benefits of effective collaboration. Create a trusted mutual support network, and have fun with those who enjoy making good things happen.

3. Try new things wherever possible, as a good habit to build your self-directed learning skills, and make this your playtime, not so much a work habit. Consider mistakes as valuable learning opportunities, and plan to make a lot of them.

4. Help others learn whenever possible, and you will learn a lot about yourself and how you can create services and businesses to accelerate learning in others.

Lone Eagle Learning Strategies for Communities; “We’re better together”

Solutions for broadband jobs tend to be individual entrepreneurship efforts, not community initiatives. The two come together if communities aggressively celebrate the individual successes and identify the characteristics of success and share success stories. Streamlining the mass low-tech web-based startup process by identifying local support services is one obvious solution.

Any community or neighborhood, without outside funding, can begin to create the necessary shift toward a culture of creativity and learning by initiating the following simple steps.

4. Celebrate your local innovators instead of shunning them. Provide social recognition and ask them to share how they achieved success with others.

5. Create an online local mentor’s roster celebrating those with skills who are willing to share them, along with an invitation to the community to come learn directly from them. Weekly or bimonthly community   tech nights, along with a potluck meal, can bring together those eager to learn with those eager to share their knowledge.

6. Leverage the first digital generation as leaders to provide potential paid services that shorten the learning curve for older generations. Exciting multigenerational synergies have become more viable than ever before.

7. Initiating and sustaining local trust and participation via short successive events that produce motivating outcomes;

Learn More at http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-innovators.htm

Two One-Hour “Create and Share” Workshop Models for Local and Online Socioeconomic Capacity Building

The reality is that fast networks offer new freedoms to everyone, but require their making hard choices in order to realize the potential.

Simple articulations such as identifying a neighborhoods GPA as the number of “Good People Acting” can be transformative by giving people a meaningful option to be socially recognized. Hosting a local competition for short “Create and Share” workshops can prove to motivate all attendees by assuring their success creating value and providing a venue for sharing this ‘new value’ in support of the public good.

1. One Hour Web-Raisings: All attendees create a free ecommerce or personal website, as something meaningful to quickly build self-confidence. Then show how to share all links via a new community ecommerce website to create new motivation by quickly building confidence in low income, low literacy attendees.

Smart local support services can easily minimize the learning curve since not everyone has to know everything, but can leverage local expertise of others, for services such as emarketing, graphic design, social media marketing, and more.

As networks get faster, and the devices become smaller, easier to use, more powerful,integrated, and interconnected, the opportunity is to leverage mobile learning and mobile commerce to engage more potential entrepreneurs faster, at lower cost, and produce large numbers of beginner’s digital businesses among the very populations most in need.

Ex. -Specifically elders caring for elders using broadband is slated to create millions of jobs, particularly where certifications for telecare allow Medicaid reimbursement. The positive economic impacts could be tens of billions annually or more.

Read “The Silver Tsunami” http://lone-eagles.com/seniors.htm

2. Local Peer Maintained Egov Portals: The free web tools available make it easy for everyone to near instantly become a “video citizen professor.” All one has to do is literally hit a button and narrate as they mover through web pages or application on the screen, to create a “show and tell” peer video. Hit another button, and the video can be saved or posted in the cloud, with a URL to conveniently share. This allows everyone an opportunity to contribute what they’ve learned to the community, on a regular basis, to create a vibrant local learning society.

One exciting future event would be creating a local Egov portal as an “Innovations Incubator” with original videos by citizens showing the best online resources, from their local cultural perspective, for public safety, health, education, entrepreneurship, energy, and more.

Community members will all learn to easily create original online videos, accessible via mobile learning, showing the best online resources and broadband applications (and apps), from their local cultural perspective, for public safety, health, education, entrepreneurship, energy, and more. Parents and youth will be tasked to have a voice authenticating their selections of what the best applications might be. 

Incentivizing Local Mentors with Social Recognition via Social Media
Leveraging social media, the best educational, health, family income, and related apps will be shared among families on an ongoing basis, with parents and young students learning specific apps (Jing is just one of many such tools) that allow creating online videos to share with others how to use these resources, on an ongoing basis, as newer and better apps continue to be identified with increasing frequency and utility. 

A specific planned “Next Step” innovation for local Innovation Incubators is to connect parents and youth with the local anchor institutions to create a local Egov portal of the best online resources, and applications (apps) best practices to support local families.

All community institutional stakeholders will learn how to identify best practices specific to their functions within the community. The state agencies, and separately, the associated local institutions, will post online their pick of the best appropriate resources by sector for meeting local needs.

Closing:
There are amazing new freedoms now available; unprecedented in human history, but there are real choices that must be made in order to take advantage of the new opportunities. One has to be willing to embark on a personal learning adventure, starting with seeking out what’s already working for others like them. Learning to “create and share” collaboratively contributing to the common good is an essential first step, to understand “We are better together” as the exponential potential increases are more people participate in the local and global learning society.

In our world of accelerating change and innovation, whether we’re following what’s happening around us, or trying to ignore it, matters more by the day.

The rural tradition of creative adaptation from our pioneer days needs to be rekindled. Our current perception that maintaining the status quo as the only safe place “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is no longer valid. We’re living in a very different world now, literally a new frontier with new freedoms unimaginable just one decade ago.

One hard fact, in our post ARRA world, that there is minimal funding. States and communities are suffering from continuing unprecedented budget shortfalls. In question is just whose responsibility is it to now to instigate mass innovation given broadband and unlimited distance learning tools and access? Literally, it is everyone’s responsibility.

Youth driven local innovation incubators could seed local digital service businesses as youth demonstrate how they can help local citizens and businesses create a culture of innovation, and a culture of use. Actionable models in grant template format are listed below.

Social Quantum Theory:

Since 1997, Lone Eagle Consulting has specialized in providing citizens of all cultures and literacy levels ‘fast-track’ self-directed learning opportunities to produce the highest benefits and motivation with the least time and effort.

The emerging draft formula related to the most effective training innovations possible for measurable empowerment of people of all cultures and literacy levels will look something like…

(Time + Motivation + literacy level)
______________________________          =     Level of Measurable Benefits
(infrastructure quality + targeted training)

Mining raw human potential en masse is now possible and will prove to be the competitive edge of nations based on GNP.

Lone Eagle Whitepapers:

Strategies for Measurable Mass American Innovation

http://lone-eagles.com/americas-challenge.doc
Written for Julius Genochowski, former FCC chairman

Best Practices for Both Slow and Fast Broadband
http://lone-eagles.com/bestpractices.doc

Advice to Google’s Leadership:
http://lone-eagles.com/larrypagenew2012.docx

Learn More:

Digitizing Alaska; NTIA State Broadband Initiative Research Pilot Project
Feb-April 2013, Lone Eagle Consulting provided unique digital literacy workshops for two NTIA State Broadband Initiatives, one in Alaskan Native Villages, and the other in rural and urban North Carolina.
I.E. 40 flights from the Bering Sea to the Atlantic, and back again, twice, plus presenting at the National Broadband Communities conference in Dallas. A few short videos from the Digitizing Alaska research project might be compelling to watch; http://lone-eagles.com/digitizing-metlakatla.htm

The Alaskan Native Tradition of Creative Adaptation.  Released Nov. 1, 2013

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdh9-SK8Ck&feature=youtu.be  8 minutes. 

From the NTIA/SBI Digitizing Alaska Pilot Project, Spring 2013

Alaskan Native Innovation Incubators
http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-innovators.htm

A full proposal for Alaskan Native Innovation Incubators to the Blackstone Foundation: http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-native-innovation-incubators.htm

A proposal on the use of Ipads for home-based early childhood development and entry-level digital entrepreneurship for low-income families. 
http://lone-eagles.com/healthy-families.htm
(This relates to serving on the FCC Connect2compete.org curriculum committee (see http://everyoneon.org as the current incarnation.) 

Lone Eagle Archives:

Creating People-Centered Community Knowledge Networks
http://lone-eagles.com/smart.htm Lone Eagle article archives

Original Online Curriculums
http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm
25 years of innovations teaching teachers and citizens online.

Original Rural Community Grant Templates
http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm
Short term, minimal cost, high impact local youth-driven initiatives