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Mike Brown: The Early Gigabit Vision - Grassroots Engagement Meets Corporate Strategy (Gigabit City Summit)
The document discusses a strategic approach by the Brainzooming Group to engage communities in building a 'gigabit city' through grassroots participation and structured brainstorming sessions. It outlines the importance of diverse input and outlines key topics, challenges, and opportunities associated with implementing gigabit technology. The results emphasize the necessity for collaboration and ongoing dialogue to leverage the full potential of gigabit connectivity.
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Mike Brown: The Early Gigabit Vision - Grassroots Engagement Meets Corporate Strategy (Gigabit City Summit)
- 1. Brainzooming™ 1#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Brainzooming™ The EarlyGigabit Vision – Grassroots Engagement Meets Corporate Strategy Mike Brown The Brainzooming Group January 2015 ™
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- 3. Brainzooming™ 3#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming The Invitationto Do Something “Google Fiber doesn’t come with an instruction manual on how to use it. We’re looking to groups such as Social Media Club of Kansas City to lead the way in creating a vision for the future.”
- 4. Brainzooming™ 4#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming One-to-Many How TheseThings Are Usually Handled Unstructured and Poorly Documented
- 5. Brainzooming™ 5#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Produce aStrategic Conversation Instead Many and Any “Ones” Structured and Very Documented
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- 7. Brainzooming™ 7#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming The BrainzoomingGroup Strategy • Create a multiple phase approach to address the opportunity and issues faced by SMCKC. • Design the process around community and global input on the issues • Identify invited participants to ensure both collective diversity and interest/knowledge base within small brainstorming groups • Leave an open door for other participants (even contrarians and opponents) who self- identify • Design and facilitate an interactive brainstorming session with 90+ participants focused on seven targeted topics.
- 8. Brainzooming™ 8#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Focusing “Buildingthe Gigabit City” • Addressed 7 communities – Gigabit City & Its Activities – Urban Core – Suburban Areas – K-12 Schools & Families – Higher Education – Libraries – Health & Mobility
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- 10. Brainzooming™ 10#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Describing Conceptsof the Gigabit City • Bringing together all the thinking into concepts • Provide opportunities for even broader community reactions
- 11. Brainzooming™ 11#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Documenting “Buildingthe Gigabit City” • Many voices within 120 pages – 170 opportunities & challenges – 222 possibilities – 56 concepts – Hundreds more success keys & idea starters
- 12. Brainzooming™ 12#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Varying PathsGlobally with the Results • Share results • Ask for more information • Combine ideas and concepts • Diversify concepts • Simplify ideas • Enrich concepts • Dissect and narrow them • Brainstorm more • Support strong ideas with resources • Solve ways to accomplish it • Ignore the ideas and start over
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- 14. Brainzooming™ 14#GigabitCitySummit @Brainzooming Available asFree Download: Brainzooming.com/googlefiberkc
Editor's Notes
- #7 In the spirit of community efforts to generate ideas for how Google Fiber can change lives in Kansas City we partnered with Social Media Club of Kansas City to create “Building the Gigabit City,” a large-scale Google Fiber brainstorming session with a diverse cross-community group. hold a day-long event designed to consider needs and opportunities for seven different sub-communities within Kansas City. We recruited nearly ninety participants representing varying perspectives and levels of experience to participate in the brainstorming session. The in-person brainstorming session was enriched by input from hundreds of individuals who completed an online survey before the event addressing needs, opportunities, and challenges for target audience groups along with offering ideas on how Google Fiber could change lives in the community. These responses provide a starting point for various exercises during the day. By bringing together a group of smart, interested, creative people and using these Brainzooming exercises, we generated hundreds of ideas and shaped potential concepts by the close of the day. The concepts, typically encompassing multiple ideas, included a description, a brief overview, and a listing of potential benefits for the target audience.
- #13 What’s even better about this great idea it’s almost immediately instigated a very special multi-generational video. Paula Holmquist, a participant in the live brainstorming session (and someone who the incredible story of our meeting two days before the brainstorming session requires a blog post all its own), heard the idea at our report out session on November 10. The next day, Veteran’s Day, Paula took her father, a veteran of the Korean War, to Kansas City’s Korean War Veteran memorial and the Liberty Memorial, to capture his memories of his service to our country. The video is absolutely delightful, especially as Paula’s dad interacts with another veteran talking about how Navy stories grow in grandeur with each telling. Her dad passed away about two weeks later.
- #15 From the start, we sought to be inclusive by addressing the broad community interests that will ultimately thrive in our Gigabit City. We built upon the work and thinking that had already gone on in so many quarters about what Google Fiber could and should mean for Kansas City. Just as each participant brought individual knowledge, perspective, and experience to the session, you'll see some familiar ideas replayed and augmented. You'll also see some very new thinking about what the Gigabit City can be. For the final report, which included more than 120 pages of ideas and concepts, we organized it under the community themes of Living, Learning, and Leading. Our goal, irrespective of the particular community group, was to take the best advantage of the assembled expertise to imagine how ultra high-speed internet service can change lives in Kansas City. We wanted to share the voices of the many passionate Kansas Citians who participated in Building the Gigabit City. We maintained the vibrancy, insights, aspirations, and cautions of everyone who shared their perspectives in the effort. Just as the input was crowdsourced, the results are as well. The report was offered free to anyone who wanted it, and it has been downloaded by people in 31 states and 28 countries.