Building a Green Tech Community

Building a Green Tech Community

Digipreneurship University develops curriculum to effectively create socially-conscious entrepreneurs that motivate, inspire, and educate a new generation of thought leaders and small business owners. To accomplish our goal we create 21st century education programs and innovative platforms to leverage digital media for education technology advancement. 

For the past decade we have donated over one thousand hours in community service, providing training workshops to over 100 staff and volunteers of various companies throughout the U.S. Technology firms like Vaskro International (New York City), Transtech International (Ghana, Africa), and the Blacksonville Community Network (Florida) have leveraged the Digipreneur Curriculum to train area executives from both the private and public sector in effective use of new media, an entrepreneurial mindset, and broadband adoption. These strategic partnerships were critical to measure the success of our training methods and now social entrepreneurs worldwide strive to combine Digipreneur best practices to develop new talent and guide community engagement to meet the increasing demands for access to urban broadband and careers in new digital media.

Our partner effort is focused on delivery of economically-viable programs in education, media and technology to under-served communities. We carry out this social responsibility to help spur local economic growth with an intense train-the-trainer, peer-to-peer, “green tech” certification program to prepare digital connectors for higher wage employment. We believe the vitality of local community anchor institutions and small businesses is critical to a thriving community and sustaining healthy business relationship.

Recently, we have customized “after school” programs to adopt STEM curricula that focus on training and employment of teen entrepreneurs for new job preparation. We are confident our fast track training and vocational program will equip students and educators with the vital skill sets to become digital ambassadors and responsible digital citizens of their communities.

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What is Inclusive Competitiveness?

New job creators also play an outsized role in the development of innovative new products and services that can revolutionize industries and transform entire sectors of our economy. Research shows that innovation has been responsible for approximately two-thirds of our country’s economic growth since World War II.

Empowering these businesses, and embracing an inclusive view of entrepreneurship, is essential to our long-term economic growth and global competitiveness. We need more people across the country to start the types of businesses that make our economy more competitive and our industries more innovative. That’s why we’re making strategic investments that focus on increasing access to capital for high-growth businesses, strengthening entrepreneurial skills training and building regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (through clusters and growth accelerators).

We must also make the necessary investments in STEM fields so that we can have a workforce with the skills and expertise to compete and win in an increasingly competitive global economy.

By making these investments, we will build on our nation’s economic recovery, inject new energy and momentum into our economy, bolster new business starts and leverage the greatest driver of innovation and job creation in the world—the American entrepreneur.  

 — an excerpt from Karen Mills, Forbes

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America21 defines The Innovation Economy as the period in the late 20th and early 21st centuries marked by radical socioeconomic changes brought about by the following:

[alert color=yellow align=center] Further globalization of commerce ; democratization of information ; exponential growth of entrepreneurship, and ; acceleration of new knowledge creation [/alert]

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Inclusive Competitiveness is girded by three pillars:
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    • Education, specifically STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
    • Entrepreneurship, especially high-growth
    • Access to Capital, capital formation and investment (including equity, debt and credit)

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