Near-Time, Purdue Center for Regional Development Partner to Launch First Nationwide Community of Regions Focused on Workforce Innovations

Today Near-Time announced a partnership with the Purdue Center for Regional Development to launch the first nationwide community of regions focused on innovation and economic development. This partnership is a spinoff of the U.S. Labor Department's WIRED Initiative. The new nationwide community is accessible at www.wired-nation.net.

The 32 Regions are employing new practices and tools of Open Source Economic Development to accelerate innovation and through a process of Strategic Doing, and identifying successful open source models and practices of Economic Development. Ed Morrison and the folks at Purdue have been speaking and leading workshops to teach the nation's Workforce Investment Board leaders. This will have significant impact to create the shifts needed for prosperity building nationally.

How can NEO leadership leverage these new tools to accelerate regional transformation and move Northeast Ohio from poverty to prosperity? What do you think?

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