Digital Economy

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When the Ada Jobs Foundation received the Economic Development Administration’s Build to Scale Venture Challenge Grant in 2021 (Award number ED21HDQ0240067), new possibilities were created in...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker One of the main goals of the Startup Conduit Initiative for Southern Oklahoma is to support entrepreneurs, specifically technology entrepreneurs. However, with the goal of inspiring...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker   Few issues are more important to the survival of the human race than water sustainability. Water is essential for life and new water technologies and research...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  When Kevin Myers took a job at Legalshield in 2008, he never dreamed that within fifteen years he would be starting his own board game company—Globo...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  To help create scalable tech startups throughout rural Southern Oklahoma, it is necessary to build an ecosystem that will support them, and building this ecosystem helps...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  For Simon Hamilton, tech began at home. Simon, a junior at Latta High School, grew up watching his father, Jeremiah, do all sorts of programming and...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  Chahtapreneur is a combination of two words: Chahta, which is Choctaw for Choctaw, and Entrepreneur. This re-branding provides entrepreneurs with a unique identity, forged in the...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  The mission of the Ada Jobs Foundation is to advocate on behalf of businesses and residents to promote a vibrant community and prosperous local economy. While...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker If you are in the Ada area and don’t know Stacey Oakley, chances are high that you know somebody who does. Though Oakley has been a...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  Chad Robertson’s life changed through a football game. On October 14, 2017, he headed to the Cotton Bowl Stadium to watch the Oklahoma Sooners take on...