We’re translating tech potential into community prosperity.
Technology
In an era where technology plays a pivotal role in economic competitiveness and community resilience, our integrated approach helps clients maximize digital infrastructure investments while ensuring those investments drive results for communities. From expanding broadband access, affordability, and adoption, to building community-based digital skills programs, to creating innovation districts and developing responsible tech-focused public policy, we craft strategies that harness technology’s potential for development that benefits all. Our work spans workforce development initiatives that prepare communities for tech-driven economies, partnerships that accelerate commercialization and governance frameworks that maximize benefits of disruptive technology, such as AI, while protecting public trust.
Our Focus Areas
Access to high-speed broadband and digital skills training is essential for meaningful engagement with our increasingly connected world. Anchored in this belief, we help clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors close the digital divide and maximize the impact of broadband investments and digital opportunity programs to advance social and economic opportunity for all.
We are working with universities, developers, local governments, and technology companies to harness the potential of the innovation economy by creating places and programs that attract and foster professional talent while creating economic innovation engines. Through our in-depth understanding of public, private, and institutional sectors, we structure partnerships and recommend policies that accelerate innovation and economic growth.
Much like the Industrial Revolution and the Internet Age that came before, artificial intelligence presents unprecedented opportunities and risks for communities. We develop comprehensive AI governance strategies that prioritize ethical use, transparency, and public trust while maximizing benefits for local economies and residents.
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HR&A worked with United Way to develop an implementation plan for their initial strategic framework for a continuum of issues related to affordable housing and homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County.
