“The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2009” paper, released by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) offers in-depth profiles of the Top Seven and analyzes the factors that make them models for the development of prosperous, inclusive communities in today’s challenging economic climate. Written by the forum’s executive director, Robert Bell, the paper identifies best practices for using IT Continue reading
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The Intelligent Community of 2009 will be named from among these Top Seven Intelligent Communities: (1) Bristol, Virginia, USA, (2) Eindhoven, Netherlands, (3) Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, (4) Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Continue reading
Milla Digital will make use of physical and digital spaces to configure a City of Innovation and Knowledge, where housing, companies and facilities will exist together under a common orientation fully engaged in knowledge-intensive activities; an urban development of great quality and advanced telecommunications infrastructures Continue reading
Digital Birmingham is a city-wide partnership helping Birmingham make the transition from an industrial city to a digital city in order to increase prosperity, knowledge and quality of life of its citizens. Continue reading
MIT’ s “Connected Sustainable Cities” project provides a vision of how citizens can employ ubiquitous, networked intelligence to ensure the efficient and responsible use of the scarce resources ‘“ particularly energy and water ‘“ that are required for a city’ s operation, together with the effective management of waste products that a city produces, such as carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Continue reading
Cisco launched the global “Intelligent Urbanization” initiative from Bangalore and signed a MoU with the local government to develop a roadmap for an intelligent and sustainable Bangalore City.
Distributed intelligence is anchored in the basic assumption that the human mind cannot reach its potential unless it is immersed and embedded in a distributed communication network (with other humans and with artifacts) supported by socio-technical environments. Continue reading
