Mission

The continuing cyber-technology revolution, from hand held computing to the globally integrated broadband Internet, has transformed the qualities required for regional economic success and opened options for new approaches to transportation planning and services, land use planning and regulation, government service delivery, and neighborhood democracy. Yet few regional institutions and local governments have recognized this new reality. The Strategic Technology Collaborative is dedicated to helping regions, cities and neighborhoods strategically deploy these new technologies to solve chronic problems and meet vital goals.

The mission of the Strategic Technology Collaborative is to help cities and regions adopt technology plans and effectively deploy digital technologies to achieve their goals.

Digital technologies increasingly play a significant role in our day-to-day activities and in the ways governments, non-profits and other organizations understand and plan for urban areas. However, most communities lack strategic technology plans for using new tools to solve old problems. As these technologies are increasingly recognized as a strategic resource for producing livable communities and sustainable economies, the need for a solid community technology plan becomes all the more acute.

The Collaborative intends to develop high profile strategic technology plans that can be used as models for the practice of technology planning. One of the barriers to adopting technology planning at the local level is the scarcity of the specialized expertise required to produce a plan that is strategically linked to the objectives, policies and initiatives of each public jurisdiction. As multi-disciplinary experts in urban planning, we assess technology within the context of each city and region.