Village of Consort Council Presentation April 25, 2016 Presented - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Village of Consort Council Presentation April 25, 2016 Presented by: Wanda Diakow Economic Development Officer/SA4RED

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#opportunityCFG3 ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY DIVERSIFIED BUSINESS COMMUNITY

ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY Goals Supporting Initiatives • Connected with broadband fibre • Digital Needs Assessment and Inventory • Smart community* • Airport Report • Aeronautical transportation at • Highway 41 Committee through CFG3* Eastern Alberta Trade Corridor • Highway 41 is recognized as a hi- load corridor

What is a SMART community? • Society is becoming increasingly digital, connected, and urbanized. Recognizing this trend, some communities apply innovative "Smart City" solutions to identify and solve basic urban issues. • Smart Cities (or Smart Communities more broadly) ARE CONNECTED places full of wireless devices and networks of sensors, cameras, applications, and data centers supporting every aspect of community life. This technology supports the collection of real-time data, measurement of performance through advanced analytics, and proactive responses to issues. Source: Smart City Alliance, website

Smart City Projects: What do you see in the red circle? Source: Smart City Alliance, Building Smart and Innovative Communities

Smart City Projects: Not ONE project that would be deemed a Smart City or Community project! Special Area No. 4 RED wants to work together to fill in the circle and become a SMART community. Source: Smart City Alliance, Building Smart and Innovative Communities

What would a SMART community look like? • The community is connected with broadband fiber. There would be lit and dark fiber available. • Project Opportunities • Broadband Network Development • E – Town Halls, Webcasting • Public Wifi • Water monitoring • Action items: • Inclusion of conduit in future public work plans - IMMEDIATE • Strategy Development – DEVELOPING • Digital Inventory – IMMEDIATE • Community Engagement – DEVELOPING

AERONAUTICAL TRANSPORTATION CFG3 • GPS approach • Visiting aircraft plug ins. • Fuel pumps /w card lock or at least keys and callout phone numbers. • Terminal building improvements • Longer runway

INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY IN Goals Supporting Initiatives • Consort is well rounded with • Community analysis of current professionals and entrepreneurs. careers • Consort is an innovative • Provide resources to learning community. organizations and institutions • Students know of career • Networking opportunities opportunities available to them* • Annual career expo * • Strong networking groups

Intelligent Community defined … “Intelligent Communities turn to technology not just to save money or make things work better: they create high – quality employment, increase citizen participation and make themselves great places to live, work, start a business and prosper .” Source: Intelligent Community Forum, Community as Canvas

Return2Rural Career Expo • September 29, 2016 in Consort • Focus on Technology, Health and Entrepreneurship • Hands on learning • Youth entrepreneurs • Career Fair

DIVERSIFIED BUSINESS COMMUNITY Goals Supporting Initiatives • Strong communication with • #100cupsofcoffee business walk businesses • Late night shopping - seasonal • Downtown is revitalized* • Tour of Empty Buildings – • Small town economic developing development ideas are • Old time games* implemented.

REVITALIZED DOWNTOWN Remember when you were a kid downtown was the hub? The place to meet people and just hang out? Let’s make that happen again! • Create a Downtown Business Group that works together to create promotions that attracts people to come downtown. Ie. Pancake breakfast for rodeo, Christmas Campaign • Add some benches and paint the sidewalks • GIANT checkers by the post office • Hopscotch for KIDS young and not so young