• The Strategic Management Response to the Challenge of Global Change

  • By James Morrison and Ian Wilson
  • Note: This is a re-formatted manuscript that was originally published in H. Didsbury (Ed.), Future Vision, Ideas, Insights, and Strategies. Bethesda, MD: The World Future Society, 1996. It is posted here with permission of The World Future Society.
• User and Carer Involvement in Change Management in a Mental Health Context: Review of the Literature
• Lessons Learned from Leading Organisational Change: Establishing the Ministry of Social Development
• Rural healthcare in transition. A time for change management

• Management of Change; Learning Organisations and Effective Institutions (Management of rural development organisations)

  • A course on the subject.
• Other courses on the subject
• Social and Political Context (focus on new technologies in elections)

• Extension Triennial Conference 2003 on Change in Rural America

  • Conference Call for Presentation proposals
• Transitional management: planned change in a rural hospital.
• New competencies for Rural Accountants

• Confronting And Managing Culture In A Changing Environment

  • Mainly focused around Schools
• Managing Change and Growth

• MANAGEMENT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: CASE STUDY RESULTS IN THE ...

  • Different case studies from the public sector
• Asian Cities in the 21st Centuty

• A Guide to Voluntary Municipal Restructuring

  • Prepared for the Municipal Programs and Services Steering Committee
  • March 2004

• The Winner's Response to Local Government Restructuring

  • A Framework for Strategy Led Change
• some good references – articles and books
• Steria: Consultants and change management in public sector (could contact)
• TRAVAUX PUBLICS DANS LES PETITES MUNICIPALITÉ ET LES MUNICIPALITÉS ...

Accessibility to the Information Age in Cities, regions, etc...

• --- news

• Rural areas left in data highway slow lane

  • by Ken Belson, CNET News.com, September 28, 2006
  • As large carriers attempt to shed landlines in rural areas, their customers struggle with dial-up Net access.

• Intel builds Internet city on Amazon island

  • by Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, September 20, 2006
  • Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker Intel, in conjunction with Brazilian schools and companies, has brought easily accessible broadband to Parintins, an isolated city of 114,000 on an island in the Amazon Basin.

• Intel Chairman Unveils The World’s Most Remote Digital City

  • Intel News Release, Sept. 20, 2006
  • Amazon Effort Marks Global Movement to Bring Technology to the Next Billion People

• Perspective: What U.S. broadband problem?

  • By Seth Sacher and Scott Wallsten, CNET News.com, July 3, 2006
  • While the U.S. does lag 11 other countries in broadband penetration, international comparisons must be considered carefully.

• Local Wi-Fi's big gamble

  • Despite criticism, cities like Anaheim, Calif., and Tempe, Ariz., are betting big on municipal broadband.
  • special report CNET News.com, June 30, 2006

• Web accessibility soon mandatory in Europe?

  • By Jo Best, Special to CNET News.com, June 15, 2006
  • The 25 European Commission member states and nine accession countries have all signed up for a plan that could make accessibility in e-procurement mandatory.

Events

• Conference Digital Services

  • The economic challenge for rural areas
  • 23-24 November 2006, City of Leeuwarden

Satellite

• --- operators

• SkyLogic

  • from Eutelsat

• TELES SkyDSL

  • Satellite Internet access provider in Europe
• --- miscellaneous

• EuroPACE (used to distribute educational services via satellite)

  • EuroPACE is a trans-European network of universities and their partners in education and training, i.e. private enterprises, regional and professional organisations and public authorities.
  • EuroPACE demonstrates and develops the potential of telematics for the European university of the future and thus contributes materially towards the realisation of the concept of lifelong learning & the creation of a Virtual University for Europe.

Projects

• AMI@Work :: Rural@Work community

• ZEUS (Satellite Network of Rural Schools)

  • The ZEUS project has envisioned the implementation of advanced communication channels for the provision of support to isolated schools in Greece.

• A-BARD (Analysing Broadband Access for Rural Development)

  • EU IST CA - coordinated action
  • A-BARD is a 24 month Coordination Action started in January 2005 to research rural broadband provision and use, as part of the Scientific Support to Policies ( SSP ) in the EU Sixth Framework Programme.

• CAPANINA (STRATOSPHERIC BROADBAND)

  • EU IST
  • The CAPANINA project will develop broadband capability from aerial platforms to deliver cost effective solutions providing a viable alternative to cable and satellite.

• CoCombine (Competition, Contents and Broadband for the Internet in Europe)

  • EU IST SSA - specific support action
  • The EU project COCOMBINE studies the Economics of the Internet. It has a special focus on the Upstream Internet Sector, Internet Backbones, Internet Exchange Points, Peering and Transit Agreements and Competion Policy. A special work package is also focussing on the Dowstream Impact of the Diffusion of Broadband in Europe

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