Featured Book Brain Gain: How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption Selected by American City & County for the 2014 Leadership Book Club By the authors of Broadband Economies and Seizing Our Destiny In their third book, ICF’s co-founders take on a central issue of our time: how to balance two essential demands of the Digital…
Featured Report: No Neighbor Left Behind: Digital Equality in the Intelligent Community The success of Intelligent Communities in building a digitally-powered innovation economy contains a sharp risk: that more of our citizens will be left behind, shut out of opportunity and civic life by the onrush of technology. To lessen that risk, Intelligent Communities pursue digital equality: the chance for…
A Smart21 community in 2017 and 2018, Pickering with a population of 94,000 residents, is located to the east of Toronto and is part of the Greater Toronto Area. It is home to the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, an eight-reactor facility with a capacity of more than 4,000 megawatts. Around the plant a cluster of energy technology firms, as well…
CP Communications For the past fifteen years CPC has been actively engaged helping regions, counties, municipalities, and user-based consortiums in Canada evaluate broadband networking opportunities, apply for funding assistance, researching, and writing business cases, crafting business plans; and designing, procuring, building, deploying, and project managing community broadband networking operations. Campbell Patterson is the founding partner of CP Communications (CPC). Campbell…
On October 25, ICF will be announcing the 2019 SMART21 at an event that ICF Canada is organizing in partnership with the City of Hamilton, Hamilton Technology Centre (HTC) and Clearcable Networks. Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger, Chair of ICF Canada will hold the ICF Canada Board Meeting in the morning of October 25, followed by a bus tour of Hamilton’s…
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), headquartered in NYC, is a global think tank, member association, and even an educational institution in some countries. Its roots in the World Trade Center and World Teleport Associations go back three decades; and ICF itself has been active for over two decades since it was kick-started from the original Smart City Conference held in…
Abbotsford, British Columbia (Population 149,500) is the hub of the Fraser Valley located adjacent to the Canada-USA border, just east of the Greater Vancouver area. It is a growing community that celebrates its extensive diversity, the third highest after the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver. The city is home to the Abbotsford International Airport, Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer…
There are many communities around the world that apply to ICF to become recognized as Intelligent Communities. But not every community that applies is able to succeed at attaining a SMART21 level recognition or later achieve a TOP7 win. Some have applied for several years and may not have achieved the entry level as a SMART21 Community. They may have…
Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson ICF Co-Founder Louis Zacharilla Clearcable Networks CEO Rob McCann City of Surrey Manager of Strategic Projects Geoff Samson Winnipeg Economic Development Vice President Greg Dandewich Quebec International’s President and CEO, Carl Viel More confirmations to come … ICF Canada Newsletter Subscribers are invited to attend this unique event in Hamilton, Ontario Canada…
All of the cities shortlisted on the Federal Government’s Smart Cities Challenge for the Grand Prize of $50 Million have been previously qualified by ICF as Intelligent Communities. Announced on June 1, the following cities were shortlisted to pursue the top prize of $50 Million: Waterloo Region, Ontario; Vancouver-Surrey, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Montreal, Quebec; and Quebec City, Quebec. In…