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Overview

Summary

On December 13-14, 2006 110 people representing a broad group of stakeholders in the future of the economic and educational health of Nebraska gathered in Lincoln for the first FutureForce Forum. Participants included State and local workforce development, the Department of Labor, economic development, the Department of Education, k-12 educators, higher education as well as representatives from a cross section of employers around the state.

The first day of this Forum gave all participants an opportunity to understand the trends and issues that each of these groups face. Nebraska is facing the potential of a significant workforce shortage over the next 20 years and the health and welfare of the state could be jeapordized if changes aren't made to address this issue. Each of the stakeholders have a variety of different challenges that a situation like this imposes. During the first day participants developed a vision for what needed to happen for Nebraska to continue to be successful and discovered a number of solutions to these challenges. A significant portion of these solutions lie in working together and collaborating making the economic viability of the state everyone's responsibility.

The second day of the Forum focused specifically on the education system. The overarching question driving the conversations on day two was, "what does the education system need to change and how can the education system use a Federal grant to support the vision and solutions discovered on day one?

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Real Time Record
This web site is a record of the event in Lincoln, Nebraska as it happened - captured in real time and presented here in this web site. The documentation of the session includes text and images that were captured throughout the course of each day of the session and is chronological (in the order that things happened). The text is not a transcription of the event. Rather, it represents the documentor's synthesis of the team reports and group discussions.

This record is intended as a reminder to the participants of the conversations that took place during the Forum, as a stimulus for further conversation and it serves as an artifact of the group's work.

For anyone who was not present at the event reading this, you may lose some of the energy and creativity the participants expressed - and some of the ideas may not translate completely without that context. If you have any questions about the content or anything that is represented here please speak to someone that participated in the process or contact Michael Kaufman at InnovationLabs.

Images
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