Cornwall can be a global powerhouse

Lockdown forced many organisations that were reluctant to move to flexible offsite working to have to bite the bullet. The net result is an explosion in associated products and services to support this new way of working. Being digitally connected means you can be anywhere... Boston, Bombay or Bodmin - the Cloud allows us to pass over traditional distance and time barriers.

To that end, we are not constrained by tourism and agriculture as the dominant sectors. We could move to a more flexible work model that involved more digital working over the winter months and supporting the traditional economies in the summer.

There is a real chance to explore this vision of a future that could help us be more sustainable as well as contributing to wider societal issues.

Emphasis on training & development, digital access and an integrated approach to all of the residents and visitors to Cornwall - even if only from over the Tamar in England.

Things to support that:

• Policies that put digital & sustainability first
• Lobbying to secure regional development for the inevitable city migrants
• Integrated infrastructure - both physical and digital
• Review every service and explore radically different ways of delivering them
• Invest in education, including the use of the hidden knowledge base that exists in our communities