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: Continue reading
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Cyberport is an investment project of the Hong Kong SAR Government and managed by the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Ltd. The project is located on a 24 hectares public land and the overall investment was about 2 billion US$. Continue reading
The Second Knowledge Cities Summit was held in Shenzhen China, 5 and 6 November 2009. Main issues of the papers presented at the academic part of the conference were knowledge cities models Continue reading
What makes a community a desirable place to live? What draws people to stake their future in it? Are communities with more attached residents better off? Gallup Organization and the Knight Foundation launched the Soul of the Community Study in 2008 with these questions in mind. Continue reading
In support of the nomination process for 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year, the Intelligent Community Forum has published a white paper entitled “The Education ‘˜Last Mile’ ‘“ Closing the Gap from School to Work’. The white paper explains and explores the 2010 awards annual theme, with the same name, which supplements the IC Indicators. Continue reading
IBM’ s initiative for a Smarter Planet aims to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works ‘“how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, and more productively. But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smarter; we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress. Continue reading
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named Stockholm, Sweden the Intelligent Community of the Year for 2009. “This is a community that has methodically and substantially redefined the possibilities of urban living and sets an example of how technology can play a role to enhance economic and social development,’ said Louis Zacharilla, ICF Co-founder. Continue reading