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Recent Projects:
Strategic Technology Collaborative
An exciting partnership has developed in recent months. Charles Kaylor, Principal of PSI Group, has joined a team of experts to form the Strategic Technology Collaborative.
From the STC website:
The Strategic Technology Collaborative consists of a core group of four leading firms experienced in strategic technology planning and implementation for cities and regions. The STC maintains links to an array of experts in related fields, which makes this Web site a one-stop shop for all public and non-profit strategic technology initiatives
While intentionally neutral on the specifics of implementation, STC believes that all communities should establish a comprehensive and viable broadband strategies (and soon).
The STC is provides vision and assistance to communities and regions that accept the responsibility for developing such strategies for making high-speed telecommunications and integral part of overall robust planning for the future.
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McLean County
In the Spring of 2004, PSI Group was enlisted to assist in developing an egovernment strategic plan for McLean County, a rural county in Northwest Kentucky. PSI's strategic partner in this endeavor was the Center for Information Technology Enterprise in Bowling Green, Kentucky (www.citeinc.com). The project involved a multi-phase approach, including a lengthy process of stakeholder and community needs and technology assessment, the active inputs from a Community Leadership Team and a series of forums, workshops and other events.
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Organization of American States
In 2003, PSI was first contacted by officials at the Organization of American States' Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development about its research and expertise in local government technology planning and benchmarking. (The OAS is the equivalent of the United Nations, serving the Americas.)This led to a collaboration between the agency and Charles Kaylor, focusing on providing distance learning opportunities to public officials throughout the Western Hemisphere.. Kaylor agreed to serve as Academic Coordinator for the Educational Portal of the Americas' course on electronic government strategic planning.
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CENIC
Next-generation broadband has enormous impacts on communities. PSI Group consultants guide communities through the process of addressing the complex challenge of planning for the future of technology.
A plan for how best to grow as technology changes learning and earning possibilities is essential. And many communities have not yet considered how broadband deployment will affect their planning. In order to have a viable plan, a community must understand where it stands in the continuum of communications to ensure that it is not left on the wrong side of the digital divide.
PSI consultants were principal authors of the Corporation for Network Initiative in California's (CENIC's) Gigabit or Bust Community Readiness Guide. The CENIC Guide was designed to aid in collecting important planning information, using this guide provides you with an opportunity to educate community members on the value of broadband and its place in your community.
The CENIC Guide is designed to provide a benchmark of a community's current readiness to participate in the enormous economic, social, governmental and personal changes that high-speed communications entail. More importantly, the guide provides a vision of specific steps and actions communities-government, businesses, schools, community groups and citizens-can take to benefit from these changes. The guide revisits groundbreaking and internationally-utilized work done by the Computer Systems Policy Project.
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ConnectKentucky Broadband Initiative
In October of 2004, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher launched his Prescription for Innovation and charged ConnectKentucky with ensuring full deployment of his plan by 2007. In this role, ConnectKentucky - an alliance of technology-minded businesses, government entities, and universities working together to accelerate technology in the Commonwealth - is in the process of creating the statewide inventory and engaging local leadership teams in communities across the Commonwealth.
PSI Group consultants were asked to assist in planning the roll-out of the statewide assessment process, including training the ConnectKentucky staff, and developing a strategy for meeting the governor's ambitious timeline for inventory, analysis, community engagement and planning.
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Upper Great Lakes Educational Technologies, Incorporated (UGLETI)
In 2004, PSI Group assisted in the development of the "Connecting Citizens to Local Government" project hosted in Michigan. The culmination of this involvement was a series of workshops for municipal officials held across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The events, "Connecting Citizens to Online Local Government," were sponsored by the Upper Great Lakes Educational Technology, Inc. (UGLETI in cooperation with cyber-state.org. Charles Kaylor, PSI Group Principal, discussed the progress of Michigan cities in comparison with those across the nation, presenting some of the latest data from the Municipality eGovernment Assessment Project (MeGAP).
The events were held at several locations across the UP in a barnstorming tour aimed at encouraging local governments to get online and spur further development of broadband initiatives across the state. A range of speakers addressed the different gatherings, focusing on success stories from the UP. Featured were examples of community organizations banding together to get their local governments online. Also presented were examples of local efforts at providing the communities in the UP high speed internet access.
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PLANetizen:
In 2004, Charles Kaylor began a collaboratively-written weblog hosted at PLANetizen, a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design and development community. The blog focuses on the intersection of technology and urban planning and policy.
At the same time, Kaylor will serve as an instructor for a technology planning course to be taught via the new PLANetizen Courses. The curriculum covers existing technology planning initiatives as well as presenting a model for community engagement in planning for their telecommunications infrastructure needs.
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