• Community Development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Rural Entrepreneurship Listening Sessions
  • eXtension
  • Northeast Key Contacts
  • Access eNonProfit Tutorial
  • Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E)
• Land Use
  • TALUC
  • Land Use Toolbox
  • NEELUN Key Contacts
  • 2003 Land Use Conference
  • Land Use in the Northeast U.S.
  • GIS in Your Community
  • Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA)
• Small Farms Industry Clusters
  • National Research Initiative (NRI) Project
  • Committee Members
• Poverty
  • 2005 Poverty Conference
  • Poverty Data
  • Big Boxes
• Other
  • Diversity
  • eCommerce
  • Energy
  • Social Capital Resources
  • Issue Briefs: Population Change and Rural Society
  • Tourism

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Agenda

Tuesday, June 6

10:00 a.m.

Registration

11:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions

11:30 a.m.	Luncheon & Keynote - "Economic and Societal Impact of IT on Communities Today and in the Future" Dr. Andrew Cohill, President/CEO Design Nine
	http://www.designnine.com/staff/cohill.html

1:00 p.m.	Cooperative Extension's response - Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned in Digital
	Development Programming. (Panel)
	eCommerce in West Virginia, Rick Moorefield Market Maker, John Nettleton Digital Divide Programs in PA, Bill Shuffstall
2:00 p.m.	Introduction to Digital Development Framework
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Community Based Digital Development Initiatives - The Roles Cooperative Extension can play.
4:00 p.m	Connecting Communities Guide - Introduction to the Tools, Facilitators and Project Leaders Guides http://www.connectingcommunities.info/
5:00 p.m.	Dinner on your own - Your chance to explore historic Philadelphia

Wednesday June, 7

7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.	Connecting Communities Introduction Continued
9:00 a.m.	Connecting Your Community - "Community Teams" will use the Connecting Communities resources to work through assessments, vision, project identification and planning tools and report on their "projects"
10:00 a.m.	Break
Noon	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Working together to connect our communities: Strategies for collaboration across the region.
3:00 p.m.	Adjourn

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The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is located at the Pennsylvania State University and collaborates with land grant institutions in the northeast U.S.