Are you a Canadian municipality or community interested in your broadband connectivity and readiness to be a smart city? You might be the right partner for our community-led broadband measurement pilot project. We want to develop best practices for communities to measure, recruit or analyze the performance of their local broadband. We are hoping to find a couple community partners…
At the ICF Summit, 4-6 June in London, you will hear from public- and private-sector speakers from across the world about their communities’ successes and how they got there. Here are some of the speakers you'll hear from this year: Andrew Carter Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Cities Andrew became Chief Executive of the Centre in April 2017. He…
ICF Canada Webinar Recordings with RiskLogik now available: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/smart_resilience_technology_future_ready_canadian_communities Resilience is "The ability of assets, networks and systems to anticipate, absorb, adapt to and rapidly recover from a disruptive event or shock." The frequency and intensity of disruptive events, stresses and shocks to communities across Canada is increasing. The sustainable development of the economy, society and the environment of Canadian…
Invitation to join the ICF Canada Webinar: February 15, 2018 at 4:00 pm EST – 5:30 pm EST Learn about how to apply, the prizes and why aligning the Challenge’s proposal with your community’s priorities is important; Learn how to construct a winning “Challenge Statement”; and Learn from others how they have been able to rally their community in support.…
Designing Smart and Secure Communities Certificate Making communities more intelligent and safer is an increasingly important issue. Citizens are expecting ever increasing levels of “smartness” from all levels of government, while also wanting to feel secure in their everyday lives. This can lead to controversy and requires a subtle approach. Aggressive measures like video surveillance on every street corner may provide security at the…
The Intelligent Community Forum Names the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2018 Finalists in the 2018 Intelligent Community Awards Program (New York– 8 February 2018) – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named the world’s Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2018 today. This is the think tank’s 16th annual Top7 list of regions, cities or towns that have gone, in ICF’s words, “from Smart City…
Welcome DazzleMe Productions, a private, Canadian owned business to ICF Canada as one of its newest members. DazzleMe Productions annually presents the Canadian CommTech Show & Seminars, both CommTech East and CommTech West. 2018 Events CommTech East 2018 – April 17-18, Mississauga ON https://www.commtechshow.com/east/ CommTech Awards Gala – April 16, Mississauga CommTech West 2018 – May 16-17, Calgary AB https://www.commtechshow.com/west/…
In September 2017, the ICF Canada newsletter covered the development of UPPlift, a new virtual technology accelerator which aims to bring innovation to the built environment. Today we witnessed its official launch in Toronto. UPPlift, founded by Mikele Brack, has the support of major corporations, including Microsoft and QuadReal Property Group, and participation of the City of Toronto to create…
Kelowna, B.C. is one of this year’s SMART21 Intelligent Communities. In an unprecedented list of eleven Canadian cities making this year’s SMART21 list, Kelowna is in good company across Canada and globally, along with its European, Asian, U.S. and Australian competitors. For a full list of ICF’s SMART21, see: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/smart21 . Meeting ICF’s criteria for the SMART21 is only part…
An unprecedented number of Canadian communities met ICF’s criteria in 2018 to beat out hundreds of applicants last Fall. ICF Canada wishes all of the Canadian communities on this year’s list much luck as they proceed to the next level known as the TOP7 Intelligent Communities which will be announced from NYC on February 8, 2018. The nearly year long…