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29 City of San Leandro | Economic Development Initiatives and Work Plan | May 2013 <br /> <br />Initiative #7: Develop a Healthy Tech and Innovation Ecosystem <br /> <br />“It’s about sociology, not technology. <br />“It’s about becoming a connected, smart, innovative community. <br />“It’s about how we organize ourselves to lead the way in the <br />global economy. <br />“….we need people to behave like the Internet – navigating a new <br />ecosystem of innovation, collaborating across new networks, <br />building on each other’s ideas and growing organically. <br />“High speed fiber is a game changer, but what we do with it <br />defines the game.” <br />From: Playing to Win in America’s Digital Crossroads: A playbook for <br />capitalizing on ultra-high-speed fiber in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas <br />City, Missouri: May 22, 2012 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The arrival of Lit San Leandro provides this City with an opportunity, not a certainty. Our <br />success depends on our ability to engage our diverse community into collaborating, sharing and <br />creating new avenues of innovation. To fulfill our vision of a Smart Digital Community, we will <br />continually seek ways to use this fast fiber optic asset that result in high performance and <br />increased quality of life for its businesses, the City of San Leandro, and its citizens. <br />The following is a way of focusing on how San Leandro can begin to cultivate a healthy tech and <br />innovation system, focused on commercial activities at this stage of development. This strategy <br />touches on issues regarding Universal Access (Fiber-to-the-Home, Digital Inclusion), Education, <br />Digital Arts and Culture, and Health, but only through the San Leandro Smart City Initiative, <br />which is today only a concept. Many of these activities are connected to other economic <br />development initiatives referenced earlier in this report – all connected and collaborating to <br />grow this new tech and innovation ecosystem. Tech companies look for a community that is a <br />magnet for their employees, including walkable neighborhoods, vibrant downtowns with high <br />quality food, drinks and entertainment, and civic engagement supported through technology <br />and application development that eases access to government.