What Can You Expect from ICF’s 7 Day Virtual Summit?

The ICF Summit is unlike any “smart city,” urban planning or economic development conference you will attend. We’re excited to be partnering with Dublin, Ohio - one of America’s leading…

The ICF Community Accelerator

The ICF Community Accelerator program provides your city or region with a set of development tools to improve competitiveness, deepen social inclusion and enhance your ability to adapt in today’s…

Learn from the Experts: How to grow your economy, society and culture in the digital age

Who are the experts? They are public and private-sector leaders who are leading communities to prosperity amid the immense disruptions of the digital age: disruptions to employment, business competitiveness, demand…

Sorry Smart Cities – You Completely Missed the Point

Blog posted by Robert Bell, ICF Co-Founder Maybe it’s just me, but I keep thinking I hear the sound of “Smart City fatigue” setting in. Since IBM coined the term…

How the ICF Method Transformed Hamilton

In the 2016 Intelligent Communities Awards, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was named a Smart21 Community. To build further on this success, the city created a task force to examine Hamilton’s infrastructure,…

Have Open Access Networks Seen Their Day?

Blog by Rob McCann For the last two decades, there have been varying degrees of interest in the concept of an Open Access Network. What is Open Access? Some party,…