The Knight Center of Digital Excellence provides sustainable approaches and business models to ensure the ongoing growth and livability of individual communities. In today’s highly competitive global economy driven by digital information exchange, we provide communities with strategic and tactical leadership to:

• Discover digital assets and opportunities;
• Connect key community leaders and stakeholders for collaborative implementation;
• Create an information and communication technology (ICT) vision and roadmap;
• Fund projects through sustainable business models and multi-stakeholder investment;
• Build digital capacity for civic transformation and global competitiveness;
• Transform communities through 21st-century applications for citizens and commerce.  

Vision

We envision that communities will use the Knight Center of Digital Excellence’s resources and leadership to create sustainable “digital town squares” that link public and private institutions to each other and their constituents, resulting in enhanced economic development, service delivery and citizen empowerment.