Articles by Kari Keefe

About Kari Keefe

Kari Keefe is the founding Executive Director of the KC Social Innovation Center focusing on the social impact from technology, future workforce initiatives, and innovations in learning. The Innovation Center is a regional hub for human capital development in smart, digital cities, and Kari leads a passionate team to leverage technology to design and develop innovative human-centered, high quality, inclusive, and accessible education and workforce programming in the Kansas City region.

The Infrastructure of Learning in a Net-Centric City

Kansas City is a net-centric, digital city. To be fair, this is a self-appointed label, but nonetheless, Kansas City makes a good case for it. I believe that net-centricity is a status, not a state, and we are constantly striving toward that goal. Cities are usually...