Tag: Technology
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Create West Virginia Announces 2015 Creative Economy Construction Awards
Charleston, W.Va. September 28, 2015 – Create West Virginia named five 2015 champions of Innovation Economy pillars at the Create West Virginia Conference, held September 24-26 in Fayetteville. Sarah Halstead, president of the Create West Virginia board of directors, conferred the “creative cone” awards-orange road construction cones-at various times throughout the event. The cones symbolize…
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Could digital democracy reboot legislative process in W.Va.?
FAYETTEVILLE — The co-founder of software meant to foster public debate and voter education, Pia Mancini, shared thoughts on how technology can upgrade the political system in West Virginia Thursday at the 2015 Create West Virginia Conference in Fayetteville. Mancini said DemocracyOS software was used in Argentina to help leverage support for legislation to help…
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Building the New Hillbilly Highway: Blazing Fast. Innovation-Powered. Citizen-Driven.
REGISTER NOW for what we think will be the most gratifying open discussion about broadband you’ve ever imaged, and much more. Here’s a description of the four sessions that make up the Tech Track. Remember, this is just one of five tracks! Others focus on Education, Entrepreneurship, Quality of Place and Diversity. Check out the…
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Why Create 2K15?
One of my hugest frustrations this year has been that I will be unable to attend the 2015 Create West Virginia conference. I interned with Create this past summer, writing for the 2015 magazine and helping brainstorm ideas for the organization’s upcoming “innovation internship program.” I began my time there with a sense of trepidation,…
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Why I’m Going to the Create WV Conference
There are only 278 miles between my family’s homestead in Bradshaw WV, and the first city I lived in after college – Raleigh, NC. At first glance, however, the two places seem more like worlds away. Bradshaw is more than an hour’s drive from the closest interstate and, to no one’s surprise, today few of…
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All About That Mash Up (Farming + Digital Technology = ??)
When you think about it, some of today’s sexiest innovations in business, culture and technology draw intrigue by “mashing up” the old and the new. Consider “hick hop,” a fusion of old-time folk music and modern day hip-hop that has become a staple of West Virginia’s homegrown music scene over the past few years. Another…
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10 Free Things Folks Can Do at the Create WV | Building Conference
1) The “charrette,” a session that invites the public to join working architects, designers, energy experts,city planners and officials, and building owners in thinking about the best, most practical plans for growing a community while preserving its character and best attributes. I believe this session will include watershed management experts. Glenville will be the…
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A State of Transition
Like other states, over the past decade West Virginia began a challenging transition from an economic development model based on raw materials, natural resources, and physical labor to a new economy where “wealth, value, productivity and profit are coming more from our heads as opposed to our arms, backs, and legs.” Where once man-hours and…
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The DigiSo Makerspace
An ordinary basement provides the foundation for a new creative movement. It all started when business consultant Rob Godbey arranged for Dale Daugherty to come to the 2008 Create West Virginia Conference, held in its second year at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Daugherty, CEO of Maker Media which publishes Make magazine, and the guy who coined…
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DigiSo is Near! New Digital Co-Working Space to Launch April 10
WVSU’s Economic Development Center Includes Region’s First Digital Arts Production Studio CHARLESTON, WV — Media freelancers, filmmakers, webcasters, web designers and photographers, digital entrepreneurs—mobile creatives of all description—now have a home in Charleston. At 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, they’ll converge at the West Virginia State University Economic Development Center (EDC) at 1506 Kanawha Blvd…