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CCDC Annual Dinner
January 17, 2009
Trisha Mason, Executive DirectorEast Central Illinois Development Corporation
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East Central Illinois Development Corporation
Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Jasper, Moultrie, Shelby counties
•Provide Support & Assistance to ED Orgs.•Promote Region Globally•Provide Educational Opportunities•Facilitate adoption of Open Source Economic Development in the Region
•Recognize Leaders & Businesses
Membership Benefits• Networking opportunities
•Regional advertising and exposure •Presence on regional website •Having a voice in regional economic development issues and building regional relationships which could lead to potential
partnerships•Utilize relationships and partner to provide
educational opportunities in region•Access to internet-based GIS application
and many other resources
Benefits of Regionalism
• Present a united front to the state, nation and world
• Never-ending networking opportunities and space to share experiences and challenges
• Shared expenses: marketing, education, networking functions
• Greater access to resources to perform at a higher level
Regions struggle to overcome the “power”
of the invisible fence
Regionalism is more important
then ever
We now compete in a global marketplace where boundaries are no longer relevant.
We are currently in the mist of a shift in our global economic structure.
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Our grandfather’s economy created a lot of wealth with vertical business models
The S-Curve caught up to our grandfather’s economy
‣Global markets integrated
‣Costs collapsed
‣The Internet exploded
Momentum and growth favor businesses on the Second Curve
2d Curve strategies are based on “linking and leveraging”
Expanded networks will drive innovation in the Great Lakes
Successful regions will move civic thinking from hierarchies
to networks
Successful regions will take the “Shanghai perspective”
Our View Their View
Open Source ED BasicsBased on open information sharing and building relationships of trust through
“doing”
Building collaborative partnerships between education, workforce
development, economic development, and business/industry
Wealth is created by tying together extraordinary assets in your communities
and the region
Thank you!
Learn more
http://www.ecidc.com
East Central Illinois Development Corporation
Trisha Mason, Executive Director
(217)540-3517 office
www.ecidc.com
The material on Open Source Economic Development is copyright Ed Morrison and distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license. That means you are free to modify, copy and use this material for
commercial purposes provided that you attribute it as follows:
Source: Ed Morrison, I-Open Distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.
You can learn more about the Creative Commons license at www.creativecommons.org
