HomeMy WebLinkAbout20090921 - VIII-C-4MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Dave Osberg, City Administrator
DATE: September 17, 2009
SUBJECT: Dakota Futures Presentation
Bill Coleman, Executive Director of the Dakota Futures will be in attendance at the
meeting on Monday September 21, 2009 to make a brief presentation on their Intelligent
Community Initiative. An excerpt from their web page outlining the program is attached
for informational purposes.
David M. Osberg
City Administrator
Dakota Future: Promoting Dakota County in Minnesota
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Membership The Dakota Future board of directors has set a goal to achieve TOP SEVEN Intelligent Community designation by 2012 from
- - - - the Intelligent Community Forum. Detailed information on the Intelligent Community Forum and this exciting economic
Commmittees development framework can be found at www.in_t_elligentcommunity,org.
Initiatves The Intelligent Community framework can be seen here.
Business
Resources In 2008, Dakota Future conducted a countywide telecommunications inventory and assessment. In summary, we found the
About Dakota following:
County • Each community has it own unique situation with provider mix, service offerings, availability of fiber networks, competitive
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Contact Us situation, etc.
-- • The urbanized areas of the county has both DSL and cable modems generally available to residential users though some
Dakota Future selected properties lack both DSL and cable modem service.
Members The corporate office area in Eagan has significant competitive fiber networks that make this an extremely attractive area
for large bandwidth users.
• Comcast offers it DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service throughout its service territory enabling 50/5 Mb service.
• Owest exchanges have multiple CLEC providers offering services to commercial customers.
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~'~ ~~ „ . ''~/~!"' This report is available for download here.
d 5, S 0 C I A T I 0 N In December 2008, Dakota Future launched its IT Workforce Initiative in collaboration with the MN IT Workforce Collaborative.
~:a,,T..~.,"t,~~•r„~a.?~~ This initiative is made possible by a MN Department of Employment and Economic Development FIRST Grant.
Dakota Future is focusing on two strategy areas: High School Outreach and IT Transitional Workers.
High School Outreach Opportunity:
Iri order to attract more prospective workers into the IT field, efforts must be made to educate students about the range of
occupations and opportunities in the IT Feld.
Dakota Future Response:
Facilitate a discussion that included high school IT instructors, business instructors and guidance staff, community and
technical college IT program directors and area corporations. This meeting provided excellent two-way learning about
opportunities for education -business collaboration.
Survey all Dakota County high school IT instructors about their current curriculum and extracurricular IT programs, existing
partnerships with businesses around IT, and a "wish list" for business -school collaboration.
Transitional Worker Opportunity:
In order to help both IT and non-IT workers transition to more future-oriented IT careers, establish information, resources, and
training to create the appropriate skill set that will enable these workers to find quality IT employment in area companies.
Provide a menu of programs/pathways for repositioning dislocated IT workers for new jobs and/or entrepreneurial activity.
Key Program Areas:
• Technical Skills
o Project management
o Java
o Web applications
o E-commerce applications
o Security applications
o Mobility applications
• People Skills
o Project management
o Customer requirements definition
o Presentation
o Writing
o Interpersonal
o Networking
• Entrepreneurial Skills
o Understanding contracting
o Business planning
o Marketing
o Business recordkeeping
o Legal requirements
o Creating a project team
Dakota Future PO Box 240874 Apple Valley MN 55124-0874 bill@dakotafuture.com
http://www.dakotafuture.com/initiative.html 9/9/2009