❖ Partnerships for Expansion and Sustainability: Leadership by individual stakeholders is necessary but not sufficient to drive transformational and systemic change. Collective action and collaboration is essential. It is needed among projects themselves, in specific sectors, around specific issues and locations. It is also needed on a cross-sector or multi-stakeholder basis between companies, governments, and organizations like the Cooperative Extension System. The partnership strategy applied to NTAE projects expands current partnerships and organizational networks for the CES system by connecting the fellows to various public, private and corporate partners. Reporting View: This report will share the activities and outcomes for quarters one and two (September 1, 2021. 1 - February 28, 2022) by the key strategies and the specific NTAE projects to provide better context and meaning for the report. (For those wanting to read the Flipping Book Report by each quarter, here is a link to those reports:
● Quarter 1 report can be accessed here. ● Quarter 2 report can be accessed here.
Many of the NTAE accomplishments from Year 2 and part of Year 3 through the Extension Foundation are highlighted in the 2021 Extension Foundation Year-End Report. https://connect.extension.org/blog/extension-foundation-2021-end-of-year-update
Advancing Technology for CES Objective 1. Foster opportunities for innovation by connecting CES personnel with new and innovative technologies that engage a wide array of learners. d. Enhance and upgrade existing functionalities e. Provide customer support, including help-desk staffing, web hosting, training, and software licenses. f. Provide infrastructure support for technical and architectural standards. The key strategies under Objective 1 for achieving project objectives and strategic goals include advancing technology for CES databases and for CES program delivery which is critical for CES professionals to advance on critical issues and educational endeavors throughout the system. ● Ask Extension is redesigned to Ask an Expert . This redesign is built to use artificial intelligence to provide additional power for database searches and the ability to answer
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