Digital Pathways Community Broadcast Seminar Series

You Are Invited:

Join with business, education and civic leaders within your community and others across the country to discuss how computers, Internet and modern telecommunications can help diversify the economies of rural communities through telework job creation.

Those attending Rural Telework: Bringing Work to Rural America will:

• Learn from national experts what telework is, why it's growing and how rural communities can use it as part of their economic development strategy.
• Hear from employers and rural communities how rural telework has resulted in benefits.
• Participate in a nationwide conversation on what it takes for a community to plan for a successful rural telework effort.

Assembled Experts:
The national audience will gain lessons from national leaders in rural telework and employers who are taking advantage of a rural workforce.

Dee Christensen and Monica Babine–Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program.
Dee and Monica are nationally recognized telework experts with 12 years experience in the industry. Their Rural Telework Project (funded by USDA) is leading the country in exploring the impacts of rural telework as a business strategy and a community economic development strategy.

Kathy King–Oregon Department of Energy.
Kathy has helped three rural communities in Oregon to establish telecommunity centers as a way to attract telework jobs as well as provide connectivity and training facilities for their residents.

Joe Sertich–True North Telework Project. Joe is the President of the Northeast Higher Education District in Chisholm Minnesota and the director of an exciting new strategy to align education and the economy of northeast Minnesota.

Craig Gowdey–Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Washington Dental Service. WDS is a leader in the use of rural telework and has recently opened a contact center in the rural Washington community of Colville, a community that has been economically depressed due to a loss of natural resource industry jobs.

Site Registration Information:
Downlink fee:
$250 per individual site. Or call about our discounted "State License Fee" for multiple sites. Based on the number of sites in your state that want to view this broadcast, we've established a reduced fee that you can pay to enroll multiple sites.

For example, enroll 5 sites for $800; up to 10 sites for $1500; and for more than 10 sites you can pay a flat fee of $2500.

Register here

Satellite information will be released to paid downlink sites the day of the broadcast.

For more information about this broadcast, contact:

Scott V. Fedale at 509-335-2952
or at fedale@wsu.edu.

For more information about the entire "Digital Pathways" series, go to: http://cbdd.wsu.edu/Digital.Pathways/.