Sheila Hurst, Pat Lanthier, Al Hammond

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Connecting to Compete in the San Joaquin Valley A
Forum on E-Commerce Building on Valley
Success Merced College, Merced, CA - Wednesday,
January 16, 2000

• Sheila Hurst, Pat Lanthier, Al Hammond
• Perry Wong, Seth Fearey, Mike Freeman

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Background

• Sheila Hurst
• Great Valley Center

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New Valley Connexions

• Funded by a 1998 Legislative Initiative sponsored
  by Senator Jim Costa and Assemblymember Dennis
  Cardoza.
• A partnership program of the Great Valley Center
  and the Division of Science, Technology and
  Innovation of the California Technology, Trade
  and Commerce Agency.

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Purpose

• To identify opportunities to grow
  technology-based business clusters in the San
  Joaquin Valley in order to make the Valley more
  competitive, enhance its base of agriculture and
  natural resources, attract compatible investment,
  and improve the quality of life.

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www.greatvalley.org/nvc
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• Funded Rural E-Commerce Grant for
• San Joaquin Valley ACCESS
• Advanced Communications Connectivity
• for E-commerce Strategic Success

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www.greatvalley.org/access
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CLIC

• Pat Lanthier
• Rivera/Lanthier, Assoc.

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• Funded
• CLIC
• The San Joaquin Valley Communications Leadership
  and Information Center
• recommended by Connecting to Compete

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CLIC

• The Need
• An objective source of information on
  technologies and solutions.
• Opportunities to learn and share best practices.
• The Proposal
• Form a central resource center with the expertise
  to help communities develop e-commerce,
  e-services strategies, and programs.

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www.greatvalley.org/clic
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Broadband Institute of California

• Al Hammond
• Santa Clara University

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Milken Institute

• Perry Wong
• Milken Institute

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ACCESS Phase I Findings

• Seth Fearey, Mike FreemanConnected Communities

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ACCESS Status, January 2002
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Communications Infrastructure

• Findings
• Good telecom participation
• Strong interest in staying in touch with each
  other
• Four connectivity zones

• Action Initiative Ideas
• service maps
• public demonstrations
• monthly meetings with govts to plan trenching
• collaboration on tower siting

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Connectivity/Demand Zones
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Mariposa
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Business, Workforce

• Findings
• Sophisticated companies are few in number
• Low awareness of the benefits in small businesses
• Shortage of technically skilled workers

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Tech fairs, press, role models
• Partner with Community Colleges
• E-permitting

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Agriculture

• Findings
• Four segments with different abilities laborers,
  growers, processors, suppliers
• County agriculture departments just starting to
  go on-line

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Migrant worker job and services system
• Wireless infrastructure
• E-Permitting
• Share government information resources

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Real Estate

• Findings
• Well connected
• Strong interest in how to build connected homes
  and businesses by participants
• Rio Mesa tele-village role model

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Demonstration facility
• Role models
• Policy support
• E-permitting
• Coordinate govt, builder, telecoms

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Healthcare

• Findings
• Some leading edge telemedicine, EMR
• Low interest level outside of major hospitals

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Access to healthcare for migrant workers
• Awareness building
• Get more data on use of computers, Internet
• Role models, e.g. Tulare UC Davis
• More telemedicine projects
• Training programs

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Education, Libraries

• Findings
• Most K-12 well connected
• Higher Ed very well connected
• Clovis and Tracy role models
• Libraries a valuable resource

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Better K-12 connections
• Teacher, staff training
• Build out Digital California
• Connect low income parents
• School as access center
• Require digital literacy
• Better lines, more computers for libraries
• Wireless bookmobiles

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Government

• Findings
• Most cities and counties have websites
• Very few offer transactions
• Few Intranets
• I-Nets starting

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Counties provide leadership to share costs, best
  practices
• Focus groups on priorities
• Develop strategic plans
• More access points
• Govt community portals

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Hospitality

• Findings
• Promotional efforts are disjointed, three portals
  in Mariposa alone
• Weak use of web by businesses
• Weak connectivity

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Get better data
• Coordinate hospitality industry better - one
  portal for park, chamber, visitor bureau, etc.
• Improve connectivity - wireless?
• Skills development
• Awareness building

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Community-Based Organizations

• Findings
• Only largest are connected
• Little understanding of the potential

• Action Initiative Ideas
• Share service records with government agencies to
  reduce data entry
• Get interns to develop websites
• Recycle computers
• Technology strategy planning

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In Sum

• People and organizations are not happy with
  access to affordable high-speed services.
• Businesses not very aware of the benefits of the
  new services. Those that are have already made
  the investment.
• Local governments making progress.
• Schools moderately well connected, but few taking
  full advantage of what they have.
• Few CBOs are able to focus on this subject at all.

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San Joaquin Valley ACCESS II Advanced
Communications Connectivity for E-commerce
Strategic Success Regional Initiatives
www.greatvalley.org/access
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Program

• Deliverables
• Conceptual Plans
• Action Plans
• Fund raising strategy
• Seminar/workshop
• Start in March, finish in August 2002
• Report to the Broadband Task Force, SJV
  Supervisors Association, Great Valley Center

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Criteria

• Active participation of multiple counties
• Meet a real need and make a substan-tive
  difference to the competitiveness of the
  organizations involved
• Support the development/expansion of wide area
  networking
• Strong, committed, leadership
• Funding should not be a barrier

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Resources

• Milken Institute
• Great Valley Center
• Communications Leadership and Information Center
• Seth Fearey, Pat Lanthier

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Regional Initiatives Workshop

• Seth Fearey, Pat Lanthier

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• What are the key issues in the San Joaquin
  Valley?
• How can better access to information and
  communications help solve the problem?
• Who should be on the team that develops the plan?