Robert Bell from the Intelligent Community Forum, based on data from Trikala (Greece), Tallinn (Estonia), Besancon (France), Stockholm (Sweden), Dundee (Scotland), and Eindhoven (Netherlands), highlights three characteristics that share smart communities in Europe: (1) multi-level leadership by government, (2) focus on social, civil and cultural e-services, and (3) a bias for publicly-owned optical fiber.
Source and more: Intelligent Community Forum