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Session VI: Roundtable - Next Steps for Hawaii
Session VI: Roundtable - Next Steps for Hawaii
Pages 125-132
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This is why it's important for us to support robot ics in our public schools, for example, to be sure we have white boards or smart boards in our schools. I visited classes where the kids are really engaged by us ing technology, and we already know that.
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With the APEC meeting in November 2011 in Honolulu, "really what we're talking about is a world-class exposure opportunity for our community." Honolulu would host President Obama and other leaders from the 20 largest Asia-Pacific economies, who will be accompanied by their ministers. They would be joined by upwards of 1,000 CEOs and senior executives and some 2,000 members of the global media, along with "general members of the global community," the representatives of think tanks, and other organizations that follow global trends.
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People will come for business conventions as they recognize how serious we are about innovation." In addition, he said, would come obvious marketing opportunities, including clean energy technology, the economic power of the UH research programs, and the growing expertise in the health sciences. "These are strengths that people don't always attribute to Hawaii, but in fact we do have those resources, and APEC is simply a great opportunity to expose them to the world." RICHARD ROSENBLUM Mr.
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It would be interesting to take these topics down into the schools, as Congresswoman Hirono mentioned, and use them as a hook to draw students forward." Learning to Use Knowledge in "Real Life" Chancellor Straney said he agreed with President Greenwood's desire to make innovation and entrepreneurship part of the University of Hawaii curriculum. UH Hilo was then in the process of writing its vision statement, he said, and one component under discussion was a requirement that all students take an internship or other practical experience in their discipline.
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He urged the state's leaders to start with senior government officials who had come to Honolulu from Washington, D.C., to participate in this symposium. This group, which includes Ginger Lew of the National Economic Council, Barry Johnson of the Economic Development Administration, Jerry Lee of the National Cancer Institute, and Roger Kilmer of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, "represents an outreach from the federal government that understands what you are trying to do." Another pressing need he addressed was equipping the university with the resources it needs.
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With a million people, you won't be able to do this entirely alone, so build that environment to welcome skilled people, capital, and ideas, and to retain the graduates of this excellent university." He also urged local leaders to develop new funding mechanisms, especially an innovation fund for the state and a seed fund for the university. He referred to Mr.
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If we do act, we may be an example that everyone else admires, and I'd sure like to be part of that story." Congresswoman Hirono added that Hawaii is "not in this alone, because as a country we have recognized the need to innovate and to become much more successful in competing with the rest of the world." She said that during her last four years in Congress, she had supported an innovation agenda that provided loans, grants, and stimulus funding for alternative energy and research. "I know this administration is also very intent on working with us so that our whole country can move forward." Broadband as "Mission Critical" As the symposium concluded, several participants returned to the need to improve broadband access, data storage and processing abilities, as well as IT and software skills.
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We have to recognize that we're not going to be able to expand our astronomy program, develop smart software, or attract the high-tech businesses we want unless we have these tools." Dr. Greenwood asked for comment from David Lassner of the UH, who chaired the broadband task force, and he provided the "good news" that Recovery Act funding was allowing the delivery of fiber optic cable to every public school, college, and library in Hawaii, which would provide one major piece of the state's broadband needs.
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