Taking advantage of the celebration in Barcelona of the Smart Cities World Congress on November 17, 2022, Augustin Argelich, principal consultant for Argelich Networks and a member of the international jury of the Intelligent Community of the Year awards, organized an event in Barcelona with the Masters in Digital Communication, New Technologies of Universitat Abat Oliba, and the Intelligent Community…
New Taipei City is the Fourth Taiwanese City to Be Named in the History of the Awards Program For the second time in four years, the Intelligent Community Forum honored a Taiwanese city with its top award today when it named New Taipei City as its 2022 Intelligent Community of the Year. New Taipei City had been previously named a five-time…
Official Declaration to take place during the ICF Summit Awards Dinner on October 27 at the Ohio Statehouse OCTOBER 20, 2022 – NEW YORK CITY – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has declared the State of Ohio to be the world’s first Intelligent State at the conclusion of months of research conducted by ICF and its Global Institute in Dublin,…
Will you work at home or back at the office – or both? Recently, Elon Musk ordered his staff to return to a 40-hour work week or face termination. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and BNY Mellon, are just some of the financial institutions that have also declared their staff to return to work. Tim Smart, a reporter at the…
Can global “No-Name” cities act as some of the world's best models as smart and Intelligent communities? You bet! Look at the current list of the SMART21 cities and the TOP7 Intelligent Communities this year to get a clue. Among the world’s smartest examples include cities you may never have heard of before such as those listed in the images…
FIND OUT WHY NOT – AND WHY IT DOESN’T MATTER IN THIS FREE CHAPTER OF BRAIN GAIN Supply chains are tangled, products are in short supply and prices are rising, thanks to pandemic and conflict. These trends are making governments and businesses rethink the global outsourcing that powered growth for decades – and led to employment disruptions that harmed cities…
Streets For All – 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities | Edited By Shyam Khandekar and Vinayak Bharne Streets For All explores the potential of the most ubiquitous public space in our cities. Launched this past week, it is available exclusively at https://www.bruil.info/product/streets-for-all/ . Going from Egypt to Japan, Sweden to Brazil and New York to Malta, it examines the…
Image via Pexels Blog by Matt Williams Creating a small business is one of the best things you can do for a local community. Building a successful small business can be challenging, time-consuming, and risky. Still, there are many reasons to do so. After all, business creates job opportunities; in 2020, 440,306 small businesses created jobs in Ontario, Canada alone.…
Image by Albert Tercero: NY Times, Published July 26, 2021 The Great Return: After the Pandemic – will you work at home or back at the office – or both? Blog by John G. Jung, ICF Chairman and Co-Founder Recently, Elon Musk ordered his staff to return to a 40-hour work week or face termination. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup…
The ICF Academy (https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/icf_academy) is a virtual program for students and interested individuals that invites them to gain valuable credentials to benefit their careers and support their local communities at no cost. The Academy provides access to unique ICF content at no charge in return for a commitment to help expand ICF’s knowledge base on the development efforts of communities…