CALL FOR INNOVATION - The Jump-Off

Steven Johnson is the author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Subject: Public Policy - MPA INNOVATION w/Interrelated success
Area of Implementation: Neighborhood-level

Today, the world is vastly different. Innovation has become the new currency of global competition as one country after another races to a new high ground were capacity for innovation is viewed as a hallmark of national success. John Kao.

The Jump-Off
Milwaukee, WI – Mary Glass, Protagonist, All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative Model continues today with the announcement of the next layer of implementation: a Call for Innovation.

All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative subscribes to strategies and projections by authors John Kao, Hans Rosling, Steven Johnson and Fareed Zakaria to "re-fine", "re-brand" and "un-trap" over a half-million Milwaukeeans from the gripes of Enduring Concentrated Poverty - one of the major barriers for wealth-building and creating a middle class with critical mass at the neighborhood-level.

WE, YOU is the short name for All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative. It looks at galvanizing hidden talent and emerging markets at the neighborhood-level for creating NEW ideas for a Bottom-Up economy that spikes the economic output –GNP (Gross Neighborhood-level Product).

In fact, the goal is to recognize and repurpose People, land and government resources to increase economic output at the neighborhood-level - to create a NEW powerhouse with many engines to drive the local economy.

“We are keen on catching up for the many decades of disenfranchisements with education and technology attainment as well as research and development”, said Glass. “We know that African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged talent in urban Milwaukee is dormant, often overlooked and ideas often stolen.” “We are excited about implementing NEW Innovation policies and processes that are connected to NEW and updated products for better lives – quality of life and economic development.”


Hans Rosling of Sweden's Karolinska Institute shares some interesting data with Fareed Zakaria on CNN's special, 'Restoring the American Dream: Getting Back to #1 – A FAREED ZAKARIA GPS Special.'