Community infrastructure outlook matters.

Creating traction with technology and frameworks.

Stay focused and avoid putting the community’s aspirations on hold. Communities have abilities, traits, and intelligence that help build community infrastructure. Developing these to their fullest extent could be thought of as developing our potential or capacity to do the job. This is where technology and frameworks come into play.

One way to increase capacity and ability is to stretch the community infrastructure to new limits. This can be done by furthering community knowledge, widening the vision, and building additional and better frameworks. While the basic physical community infrastructure is crucial, the technology infrastructure has arguably become more important.

Many people are shell-shocked by all the technological changes, particularly in communications and social media. To cope, we must ensure the community has a growing technology capability. We must take a broader perspective and get plugged into people who know.

Community infrastructure is critical to competing in the new globalised economy. The community needs to develop its creativity and concentrate on innovation and flexibility in tune with the future. Technology will form the basis of 21st-century growth, the ‘mining and foundries’ of the information age.

Are you utilising modern technology?

All strategic thinking and planning must be viewed in terms of technology. You can no longer make decisions without first considering the implications of new technologies and the efficiencies that can be derived from them. Planning should always come before technology, not the other way around, even though some technologies can create new ways of doing things.

The smart communities already promote themselves using quality interactive Internet sites and social media. They are creating new ways for their communities to respond to the marketplace.

We are building a new industrial order, and new technologies are not confined to the Internet or telecommunications. Also, remember that modern technologies are not restricted to just big businesses. Small enterprises are probably the biggest beneficiaries of modern technology.

Technology covers a broad field, including websites, social media, the Internet of Things, Big Data, Mobility, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, to name a few. Perhaps an inventory of the community’s technologies would reveal some significant attributes for building the future community infrastructure.

Quotable Quotes

“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone”. Steven Spielberg

“A community infrastructure should have a framework to provide a tool for coordinating diverse infrastructure activities and ensure the information required to make a good investment and management decisions is available”. Peter sergeant.