Brewed Fresh Daily

Make sure you check out the Plexus Institute. Jack Ricchiuto: What sort of collaboration? June Holley: Maybe a conference here? Policy making... Make sure you visit the ACEnet website. June is going thru a powerpoint on complexity science and economic development. Very cool stuff. She's looking for new metaphors to explain ED. For instance, termite colonies. Discussing Self-Organization and Emergence: wonders what sort of questions we should ask about how we're effecting our environment. Also using continual reflection. June researches the rest of the world, particularly Europe because they spend money on research. They're creating better jobs that are more resilient there. June will post the powerpoint and the paper she's working that this discussion is around. Ohio University is becoming more involved with Economic Development. From the powepoint "ACEnet is committed to building a sustainable regional economic of sucessful small businesses that open up new job opportunities for low income residents. At any point, 1/3 of the people in the network are "low-income". Many of the people that live there choose the life style. Steve Goldberg: What's the resident retention? June: The young people do leave. They're addressing it with entrepreneur programs in the school. June: "You can create incredible economies if the local residents support local farmers". Steve: The basis is a regional campaign promoting the program. Bill Callahan: Celebrate the business plans. The real estate is used to build a larger network. Their kitchen incubator has a cyber cafe! It's important to make dozens of reasons for people to be there. Switching to wiki