What New Work Delivers
New Work designs and implements comprehensive solutions to problems of economic development and poverty reduction.
New Work provides an integrated, overall framework to organize and coordinate stakeholders, to articulate consistent policies and programs, and to provide coherent rationales to guide decision makers, community leaders, technology providers, in both the public and private sectors.
The results of employing New Work Technologies for the development of an economy include:
- Economically independent communities
- High-tech infrastructure for community life (housing, food, water, energy)
- Co-operatively owned business ventures
- Decentralized manufacturing techniques
- Entrance into the world-wide markets for New Work Technologies
- Training, education, mentoring, and support for individual and collective pursuits
- Access to technology, resources, information, needed for modern life
- Greater individual and collective autonomy
- Enhanced quality of life
TO ACHEIVE THESE RESULTS NEW WORK:
- Establishes connections between projects and technology providers
- Adapts technologies to local conditions
- Mobilizes community leaders and participants
- Ensures technological solutions address community needs and desires
- Develops comprehensive programs
- Coordinates program implementation
- Plans and coordinates installation of technological infrastructure
- Creates training programs in New Work principles and technology uses
- Trains trainers
- Develops business enterprises
- Opens markets for new products
- Delivers ongoing training, mentoring, and support
The term New Work is very often considered an umbrella for all three concepts - New Economy, New Work, New Culture. It is suggested to begin with the page About New Work for an overview.
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