Technology Summit

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Appendix A

Appendix BThemes 1Themes 2Themes 3

APPENDIX A

VOLUNTEER WORKING GROUPS

Below are participants in the Technology and Community Development Summit who volunteered to lead and participate in working groups

 

GIS working group

Discuss increasing the use of geographic information systems (GIS), such as that demonstrated by Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles, with the objective of displaying demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental information relevant to policy-making and advocacy.

Lead

• Neal Richman, UCLA Advanced Policy Institute

Participate 

• Tom Kingsley, Urban Institute, National Neighborhood Indicator Project
• Peter Werwath, Enterprise Foundation
• Kate Monter Durbin or designee, Cleveland Housing Network
• Joan Fanning, NPower
• Michael Avery, Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance
• Dorothy Lengyel or designee, Homesight
• Maggie Grieve, McAuley Institute, Success Measures Project (Development Leadership Network)
• J. Pari Sabety, Technology Policy Group, Ohio Supercomputer Center
• Geeta Pradham or designee, Boston Foundation
• B. Keith Fulton, AOL Foundation

Creating an "impact portal"

Participate

• Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor
• Randall Pinkett, BCT Partners
• Loren Blackford, LISC

Standards working group

Lead

• Ben Hecht, One Economy Corp.

Participate

• Loren Blackford, LISC
• Dorothy Lengyel or designee, Homesight
• Jim King, Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation
• Jeff Eder, LISC
• Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor
• Tom Kingsley, Urban Institute
• Beverly Coleman, Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative
• Mark Weinheimer, Living Cities
• Richard Zorza, Consultant
• Richard Pargament, Metis Associates
• Geeta Pradhan, Boston Foundation

Working group to mobilize local support

Address technical assistance issues, possibly by collaborating with community technology centers.

Lead

• Randal Pinkett, BCT Partners

Participate

• Kate Monter Durbin or designee, Cleveland Housing Network
• B. Keith Fulton, AOL Foundation
• David Eisner, AOL Foundation
• Designee, NPower
• Sara Steinbauer, Project HOME
• Daniel Ben-Horin or designee, CompuMentor
• Vince Stehle, Surdna Foundation

Contribute in other ways

• Tom Kingsley, Urban Institute (When participants in the National Neighborhood Indicators Project meet on December 4-6, will report on the Technology and Community Development Summit and promote collaboration with Living Cities.)
• David Eisner, AOL Foundation With: Vincent Stehle, Surdna Foundation; Geeta Pradhan, Boston Foundation; and Richard Zorza, consultant (Will present to the Tech Funders Collaborative the agenda adopted by the Summit.)
• Jim King, Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation (Will bring Summit agenda to the attention of NCCED leadership.)
• Carey Shea, Surdna Foundation (Will encourage the leadership of Living Cities to require all new housing constructed/rehabilitated by grantees to be wired for Internet access.)

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