Dakota Future was pleased last fall to be named one of the Smart21 Communities by the Intelligent Community Forum. It is an international compeittion and we were honored to make the prestigious cut. The next step towards Intelligent Community is to make the Top Seven list. To be considered, Dakota Future submitted a new [...]
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For the third year in a row, Dakota County, led by Dakota Future, has been named a Smart21 Community by the Intelligent Community Forum. It’s exciting and inspiring. This is an international award, and the competition this year is even tougher that in the past… The 2012 honorees include 4 communities from Europe, 10 [...] Sometimes people ask me and Dakota Future board members about Dakota Future and Dakota County. We all know that sometimes we only have a few seconds to talk before people get pulled away to another conversation or task. Our board is now working to hone our elevator speech that will spur interest from possible [...] Dakota County’s Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville is a leading cardiac care hospital. According to Dakota County Business Tribune Weekly… Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, which opened a catheterization laboratory in 2009, is only the second hospital in the state to do so. The lab, an examination room that uses state-of-the-art imaging technology, allowing [...] A local resident and business owner speaks about Dakota County. Michelle owns NetMajic, a web development and online marketing company. In our efforts to become an Intelligent Community, we are focusing on marketing and advocating for Dakota County as a tech center. Over the next weeks we will upload video of folks talking about their corner of Dakota County. After all who better to ask than our local residents and employees? The final presentation of the day highlighted ways that folks in Dakota County are using broadband to make our lives better. David Riggs told us how the modern student learns with technology. Remember when you could take a computer class in college? Well now you can take a class on the computer. It has [...] It was great to hear from difference segments of Dakota County and to get their views on broadband. An important segment is the local government entities. We heard from them on the Community Panel: Working Together on Broadband and Technology. Specifically we heard from the following: Tammy Omdahl, City of Burnsville Tom Garrison, City [...] We were pleased to have a panel for three of the largest Dakota County providers talk about their broadband infrastructure and plans for the future. We head from the following: Mark Tupper – CenturyLink JoAnne Johnson – Frontier Communications Jeff Parris – Comcast Business Click on their names above to see a video on [...] The Broadband Forum last week was a great success. We had about 50 attendees; we all left a little wiser and inspired to improve broadband in Dakota County. The day started with Michael Langley from Metro MSP helping us focus on regional economic development. It was a good reminder that in today’s global economy, we [...] |
Innovation Networks are business-driven peer groups around key business processes, enabling sharing of information and best practices between Dakota County companies. Our first two networks – Lean Processes and Advanced IT are about to launch. (Learn more)
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