Completing the ICF Bench-marking questionnaire
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Completing the ICF Bench-marking questionnaire
- 3. ■ Complete the benchmarking tool to better understand how you compare with 400+ communities around the world on the six ICF elements, or,,, ■ Use the framework as a guide to create and implement collaborative strategies that will increase your global competitiveness TwoWays to Use the Intelligent Communit y Framework
- 5. Understanding the BenchmarkingTool ■ Questions – Checkbox, fill in the blank and short essay questions – Data and storytelling ■ Reports – Free snapshot report – Additional reports for a fee ■ All communities entered in annual ICF competition ■ Approximately eight hours to complete
- 6. Broadband (Connect) Broadband providers Availability and Adoption Connection speeds and pricing Essay: Describe the most significant project within your community that promotes broadband deployment and adoption
- 7. BEST PRACTICE NEW BROADBAND CO-OP
- 8. Knowledge Workforce (Work) Technology offerings in schools Education-Employer collaboration projects Educational attainment Higher education access Essay: Describe your community’s most important workforce initiative
- 10. Innovation (Innovate) Local Innovation promotion policies Local Innovation programs Local government online services Essay: Provide information on an Innovation produced by a collaboration of business, government and institutions
- 12. Digital Equality (Include) WHAT FACILITIES AND SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WITHOUT ONLINE ACCESS? WHAT FACILITIES AND SERVICES ARE OFFERED TO ORGANIZATIONS TO PROMOTE DIGITAL ADOPTION? ESSAY: PLEASE DESCRIBE THE MOST IMPORTANT PROGRAM THAT AIMS TO INCREASE DIGITAL ADOPTION BY PROVIDING ACCESS, TRAINING OR MOTIVATION.
- 14. Advocacy (Engage) Does your community have a documented digital strategy for economic and social development? Is there a task force or group charged with implementation? What are the ways that you seek to educate and involve citizens in community development? How do you communicate your community and economic development story to the outside world? Essay: Describe the most important policy/project that educates and engages citizens on important issues.
- 16. Sustainability ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MEASURES LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABILITY PARK LAND AND OPEN SPACE ESSAY: DESCRIBE THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT
- 17. BEST PRACTICE WATER QUALITY INITIATIVE
- 18. Additional information ■ Local leadership contacts – Public – Private – Non-profit ■ Local/regional press/media contacts
- 19. The ICF Competition Funnel ■ 400 + communities complete the benchmarking questionnaire ■ Smart 21 Communities selected – Additional data and information provided ■ Top Seven Communities selected ■ Community visits documented ■ IntelligentCommunity of theYear announced
- 20. BLANDIN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OFFERING Helping you to create your best application!
- 21. It’s available for the asking! ■ Two-hour community meeting with key stakeholders – ICF orientation – Application review – Identify/select best stories ■ Application – Review – Comment
- 22. Contact ■ Intelligent Community Forum – www.intelligentcommunity.org ■ Blandin Foundation – ICF Description ■ https://blandinfoundation.org/articles/intelligent- community-forum-benchmarking-assistance/ – Technical Assistance Request ■ https://blandinfoundation.tfaforms.net/54 ■ Mary Magnuson, Broadband Program Administrator – memagnuson@blandinfoundation.org ■ Bill Coleman, Community Broadband Coach – Bill@communitytechnologyadvisors.com – 651-491-2551
Editor's Notes
- Welcome everyone! So glad that you could join us here today to learn more about the Intelligent Community framework and competition.
- These are the six elements, or pillars, of the Intelligent Community framework. Essentially, the model focuses on using the broadband network as a foundation for spurring sophistication in workforce, business development, digital equality or equity, sustainability and advocacy. I will talk in a bit more detail about each of these elements more when we are reviewing the ICF questionnaire.
- Each community that completes the questionnaire gets a snapshot report that provides the community score on each of the elements and major sub-elements. You can see how your score compares against the average of the 400+ communities from around the world that have entered the competition. You can use this data to evaluate where you might need to step up your game or you might find that your work is world-class and something to promote more extensively. The second approach is more intentional. By building your community’s strategies around this model, you can create a more comprehensive and collaborative approach to your community economic development efforts. This approach requires buy-in from multiple community stakeholder institutions. One advantage of this approach is that it is helpful to break down existing silos.
- Benchmarking can be a powerful tool to help us understand our competitive position in the world. Benchmarking can help us measure progress against the goals that we have set. Benchmarking can be valuable to organizational management so that both leaders and staff agree on the desired outcomes.
- The Broadband network is a critical infrastructure on which the other five elements rely. But broadband networks are insufficient to guarantee sophisticated use by all resident and organizations. Public access is important. So is affordability, not just for families with low-incomes, but also for business competitiveness and recruiting purposes.
- Today, virtually all economic developers would agree that creating and attracting talent is the primary economic development task. Businesses follow talent. This section measures the quality of the community workforce and judges the quality of education-employer partnerships.
- The Innovation measure revolves around creating an entrepreneurial environment and the showcasing of new technology by local governments and other community partners.
- How does the community support the needs of those with barriers to technology access and adoption?
- Change is all around us. Are we steering or lost in the current. How is our community working to attract people and investment? What processes are in place to ease the difficul
- Sustainability is “economic development with the future in mind.” Reductions in inputs and decreases in waste outputs lowers costs and makes businesses more competitive. Many global companies require suppliers to meet environmental standards to qualify as subcontractors. New residents – old and young – are seeking, clean, health-supporting environments.