BC tech firm’s success a blueprint for growth outside of big tech’s shadow Alex Coop writes in ITWorld Canada (published on November 23rd, 2020) about one of North America’s largest Salesforce consulting and app development firms that is betting big on rural Canada. He says that other small enterprises should mimic them to help Canada accelerate its overdue transition to…
Tallinn, Estonia is Named as 2020 Intelligent Community of the Year For the first time in the twenty-one-year history of the award, the Intelligent Community Forum honored an Estonian city with its top award today when it named Tallinn, Estonia as its 2020 Intelligent Community of the Year. Tallinn has been engaged in the Intelligent Community Awards program for over…
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named Maple Ridge and the Township of Langley in British Columbia, Canada as co-hosts of the February 2021 ICF Smart21 Conference: From Surviving to Thriving using the ICF Method. The Smart21 Communities announcement will take place as part of a 2.5-day conference from February 21-23, 2021. “We’re excited to be returning to Canada, on the lands…
From Connectivity to Community will be released on October 14. Click here to learn more. From Connectivity to Community was written to help communities – including the small-to-midsize ones that make up the majority – develop the broadband and digital assets that the modern economy demands and to turn them into inclusive prosperity and social and cultural growth. Growth in…
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 Intelligent Communities - for the 2020 Virtual Global Summit. We’ve retooled our event to make sure it is safe to attend while the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic -…
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 fast-moving broadband economy. One of the major services the Accelerator provides is the Analytics Report. Analytics establishes a baseline for your community compared with ICF’s global data on Intelligent Communities.…
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 for skills, community engagement and community resilience. Their secret weapon? The ICF Method – and each other. They are members of the Intelligent Community Forum. Cities, regions, companies and nonprofit…
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 and Cisco quickly followed its lead, there have been, according to the web, three generations of smart cities. There have been academic papers and workshops and massive conferences. Multinational, national…
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, identify gaps in its digital strategy across the municipality, and develop an action plan to make Hamilton a destination for investment. Hamilton Mayor’s Intelligent Community Task Force is available as…
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, usually a local government, chooses to build a physical broadband network and then leases access to service providers who wish to connect subscribers. The model is compelling because the municipality…