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Forging a Creative Community for the New Creative Economy

Creating a twenty-first-century city is not so much a question of technology as it is of jobs, dollars and quality of life. A community’s plan to reinvent itself for the new, knowledge-based economy and society therefore requires educating all its citizens about this new global revolution in the nature of work. To succeed, cities must prepare their citizens to take ownership of their communities and educate the next generation of leaders and workers to meet the new global challenges of what is now being termed the "Creative Economy."

Having the most wired and wireless infrastructures are undoubtedly important. San Diego even commissioned a City of the Future Committee in 1993 to make plans to build the first fiber-optic-wired city in the United States in the belief that just as cities of the past were built along waterways, railroads, and interstate highways, the cities of the future will be built along "information highways" — wired and wireless information pathways connecting every home, office, school, and hospital and, through the World Wide Web, millions of other individuals and institutions around the world.

By John Eger

Full Story: http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/98488

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