Presentation to potential Digital City Partners

Marc Canter, CEODigital City Mechanics

Jobs

• New system for creating Jobs• Combines Job Training, Job Creation and

On-line tech skills• Produce in Digital Bureaus:– Local events– Large-scale Multimedia projects– Live Video Help– Job skills Training

Sustainable Model

• Build on Government and Foundation support• Drive engine with on-line multimedia projects• Seed entrepreneurial activity• Help promulgate open platforms of innovation

Focus

• All jobs of the future will require hi-tech on-line jobs skills

• Connect the real-world to the on-line world• Help support and create local on-line efforts• Help create an open software platform in the

area which others can build upon

Virtuous Circle

• Trainees progress through a series of training, internships and hands-on experience

• Volunteers provide real-time Help, trainees also volunteer locally, points system setup

• Focus on real-world connecting to on-line world• Everyday skills used on-line:– Digital media - Collaborative tools -

Wikis– Social networking - Scheduling - Email

New kind of system integrator

• 501c3 partnerships: research grants, writeoffs• Professional services arm:– Job Training– Operate Digital Bureaus– Configure and build custom software solutions

• Content producer:– Produce large-scale multimedia projects– Games, Visualizations, Simulations, Video, Images

Pilot program

• Small Digital Bureau: $75k per month (1/2 to interns)

• 1-3 large multimedia projects• Several live events, in conjunction with local Orgs• Jobs training with hands-on projects• Start in Cleveland, expand to NEO – then

Nationwide and International (Malaysia)

What is a Digital City?

• IBM = “Smart Grids”• Cisco = “Video tele-presence”• Microsoft = “Health, Energy and Enterprise”• Digital City Mechanics =

“Digital Citizens with Digital Jobs”

Goals

• 5k Jobs in 5 years in Cleveland/NEO region• Local Digital Economy ecosystem• Set trend that corporations can sponsor

content which will create local jobs• International brand “Build Digital Cities”

New Company

• Marc Canter moved here from California– Co-founder of Macromedia

• Building relationships• Establishing credibility• Creating Jobs in the area