The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has released a comprehensive ranking of intelligent communities ranked by Innovation, one of the criteria of intelligent communities in the ICF Method. Some of the names on the list may surprise you, because they are not famous technology centers. ICF measures the innovation potential and progress of a community differently. Being the location for innovation technology…
The Future Cities Canada Summit 2019 will be taking place in Toronto at the Evergreen Brick Works from November 7-8, 2019. Learn why Future Cities are leading the way: supporting their leaders, scaling their innovations, and learning from their ideas to build more inclusive, more sustainable and smarter future for our communities — for everyone. For more on the Summit…
The first annual Canadian Rural and Remote Broadband Conference will take place from November 12th-14th in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. See: https://bridgingthedigitaldivide.ca. This conference promises to provide strategic information sharing for community leaders, rural advocates, service providers and government officials. The summit presents a unique opportunity for stakeholders to come together and share their knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned on…
Sustainability can be the source of controversy on the national level. But at the local level, it is easier to agree on the need for clean air, clean water, less pollution and the preservation of what we cherish most. For Intelligent Communities, sustainability means local responses to global changes in ways that make the community a better place to live.…
Canadian Urban Institute and ICF Canada have partnered on delivering a series on “SMART PLANNING FOR SMART CITIES”. These included a conference presentation to the Municipal Finance Officers Association’s MFOA 2019 CONFERENCE on September 20, 2019 in Huntsville, Ontario. Geneva Starr, CUI's Smart Cities Project Manager joined ICF Canada’s John Jung on the topic of creating community-driven smart cities and…
The Intelligent Community Forum Canada (ICF Canada) in partnership with the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI), are supporting Evergreen Canada in delivering a Future Cities Program known as the Community Solutions Network (CSN) through Roundtables and one of the Idea Camps in the Atlantic Provinces. The CSN program of Roundtables covers communities across Canada. Initially CUI and ICF Canada undertook Roundtables…
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has released a comprehensive ranking of intelligent communities ranked by their ability to create a knowledge-based workforce, one of the criteria of intelligent communities in the ICF Method. The list ranks Intelligent Communities in our global data set using data on communities submitted from 2014 through 2018. This data is carefully weighted to balance the self-reported…
Blog by Dr. Sylvie Albert, University of Winnipeg (Canada) Innovative Solutions to Creating Sustainable Cities is available from Cambridge Scholar at https://www.cambridgescholars.com/innovative-solutions-for-creating-sustainable-cities I am an idealist and an optimist. My rose coloured glasses lead me to think that there is nothing we can’t solve if we put our collective minds to it. In our new book: Innovative Solutions to Creating…
Canadians ALERT! You are invited to Rochester, New York to participate in the SMART21 Conference, SMART21Awards announcement and a fantastic tour of the city on October 22nd and 23rd. And to top it off, your registration fee is at par! Click here to Register. Use the code: “ICF Canada” to get your Registration Fee at par. The program and speakers…
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) released a comprehensive ranking of intelligent communities ranked by several categories including Broadband, Knowledge Workforce and Innovation, some of the criteria of intelligent communities in the ICF Method. It has also provided a ranking based on population size. In this presentation of the Top10 global Intelligent Communities, we are focusing on populations of small and rural…