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Nonprofit turns low-income wage earners into skilled IT workers – for free
It's a simple concept really. Provide free information technology (IT) training to help low-income workers climb out of poverty and into high-demand careers with benefits and steady paychecks. Get foundations and corporate partners to support your...
Article - 04/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility

3 things you need to do to attract millennials (your job market depends on it)
What are you doing to be the next big employment center? As we’ve mentioned before, the world’s cities are growing fast, but there’s no guarantee yours will too. In fact, some big cities are shrinking fast because their dominant employers are no...
Article - 04/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement

How connected is YOUR smart city? (Yes. It matters)
The technologies that help make cities smart, livable and sustainable range from stationary and mobile sensors, video cameras and -- as we'll likely be seeing in a few short years -- connected cars.All of those Internet of Things-connected devices...
Article - 04/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity

Your Internet's faster than it used to be -- but maybe not fast enough
The headline in a Reuters article from March of 2015 proclaims "U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years." The FCC reported at the time average download speeds rose to almost 31 megabits per second (Mbps) in late 2014, well...
Article - 04/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Connectivity