My friend JoAnne sent this to me this morning. I thought I’d share it with you… she lives in an area of NC that was miraculously saved from Hurricane Helene.
“It is time Americans wake up and realize what is happening on their watch. The globalist elites are underway getting the foundation ready for the rollout of the 2030 – 2050 Agenda. Americans are not part of that plan.”
“The stench of dead bodies …”
“As people are moving forward with their lives across the country, NC & TN are becoming another Maui.
Even in our community, untouched by the ravages of Helene, food & fuel are becoming low. Folks are panic buying. Internet & phone service is sketchy sometimes.
In my opinion, as you saw, Asheville is a designated Smart City site as is Maui. There are multiple natural resources in WNC. There has never been a storm this severe in these mountains. Land grabs by corporate ghouls. The government is MIA but keeps real help out.
Mountain people are resourceful, and they will prevail! I just hope it doesn’t get ugly soon.”
“Is Asheville a designated smart city?
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This explains why Asheville isn’t getting help. Just like Maui.
They are lying about Helene disaster…”
Our smart city network is ready; will leaders approve?
The community ‘innovation engine’ that I developed, Open Strategic Innovation for Communities (OSIC), can assist in organizing further positive change in Asheville and Buncombe county. When it comes to solutions to our greatest challenges, there is less ‘low hanging fruit’. So what’s next?
OSIC also serves as a unique, powerful backbone for our statewide Smart Cities and Towns Network… a network we need. It often seems like we are short on resources and solutions. With a great approach to leveraging what works and our talent, we can overcome challenges faster, more, and better.
Each municipality, i.e. the Asheville Smart City Network, gains a better overall public program management capability for comprehensive plans, grid modernization initiatives, and other agendas. Municipalities can compete at times, but there has never been a better time to openly unify too. Do not expect better without existing community systems interfacing with a more open, innovative process.
Along with Sustain NC, here is another smart sustainability reference point. A recent White House report, “Technology and the Future of Cities”, calls for a City Web solution. I have summarized that White House definition of a City Web in a press release on the Sustain NC blog. The White House City Web definition and the OSIC outline I created over two years ago match closely enough. OSIC is a sufficient City Web platform. This White House report mentions the term Smart City fourteen times. I recommend this report for those ready to innovate.
There is a large value proposition with improving our municipal operating systems. Personally I see many rationales for this Asheville ‘smarter city’ toolkit. I would agree there are many other innovative voices in Asheville than my own. What is needed is a unifying communications and collaboration system not necessary managed by government only.
The OSIC technology as well as foundational processes and principles are sound, and I am willing to work with a council to go further. We have the Asheville Smart City Network. City of Asheville’s Open City Hall has its merits and use, but there are too many OSIC – Open City Hall differences where OSIC offers more.
So let’s take a look at Smart City thinking, in part deployed using a social project management service called Podio, in the context of what is called the “Duke Energy Partnership”. The Asheville-Buncombe Energy Innovation Task Force (EITF) represents this new partnership.
I also developed the Smart Grid, Distributed Energy, and Efficiency Program (Smart Grid DEEP) in 2006 here in Asheville. Smart Grid DEEP is an important step to a more modern, open public strategy mode. I am happy to share an informative EITF – Smart Grid DEEP infographic and a related video showing an OSIC on Podio intranet workspace. This online mode of OSIC is just one part of better, real time information sharing and mutual aid value creation. By the way, I love in-person events and can help produce mixed online and face-to-face OSIC experiences.
With OSIC and proper support, one to two hundred EITF stakeholders and subject matter experts focused around grid modernization can inject solutions and information important to the entire state. No way is the EITF just about Asheville and Buncombe.
But it takes government leaders, universities, and other community leadership centers to adopt OSIC or all that capability goes unused. Will at least twenty-five of our leaders try a new direction for tackling our greatest challenges? If they are dedicated enough to this work, they will at minimum learn new things from the grid modernization documents I collected.
Grant Millin is an Asheville citizen, management consultant, and the Sustain NC developer: grant@innovograph.com.
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Does not surprise me!! Asheville is a very liberal/Blue city!! My guess is that a bigger percentage of this city has no idea what is going on!!
Articles such as this one need an eau de horse stall warning so that readers can pull on their muck boots (mine didn’t do any good 10 feet away from me) before heading into that sort of putrid socialist-speak.
I had to fight my eyes glazing over with that libtard social science bullsh*t Grant Millin spewed.
Someone pack him on a flight to EU territory and let him play ‘smart’ house there. ffs
God will punish our enemies. We will arrange the meetings.
NCSWIC
anoldpieceofleather
I neglected to think a question out loud… I wonder if the remaining living citizens of Asheville will be voting Republican, due to the double-barrel middle fingers the DemonRats gave them with their abandonment of the city?
Those victims of the artificially modified destructive tornado who died will likely be voting for their DemonRats, because that’s what they do.
God will punish our enemies. We will arrange the meetings.
NCSWIC
anoldpieceofleather