Infrastructure Learning Community (ILC) Focus Group

ILC User Group Questions- Working Doc

• What do you know about IIA?

  • How aware are you of IIA opportunities (funding streams, projects, and opportunities) that could support your work?

    • (Very aware, Somewhat aware, Not aware)

  • If somewhat/well-aware: Where do you get information about IIA now?

• What would you like to know?

  • What types of information do you wish you had about IIA? (If need prompting/examples: upcoming funding opportunities, case studies of existing projects, federal agency points of contact, etc.)

  • What types of resources would you want about IIA? (If need prompting/examples: webinars, fact sheets, points of contact, peer learning opportunities)

• How might a centralized hub help address these knowledge gaps?

  • If ETA were to build an interactive, centralized hub on IIA and workforce…

    • What would you like to see in it? (Resources, information)

    • What would you like it to do? (Interactive features)

  • How often would you want updates? How would you want to receive them? (Alerts, emails, newsletters, monthly calls, etc.?)

  • React to a few ideas we have (after we get their input)

    • Peer discussion boards

    • Peer-to-peer virtual sessions

    • Fostering connections with your local public workforce system

    • Webinars/webcasts with SMEs and federal agency partners

    • Case studies/promising practices from the field

    • Points of contact to learn from/connect with

    • Alerts on upcoming funding opportunities, webinars, resources

• Other

  • Do you have promising practices on IIA project implementation or engaging with the public workforce system for an infrastructure project to share/uplift? (Prompt with examples if needed)