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| ICF Co-Founder Robert Bell addresses Innovation Center |
| Published Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
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On June 25, Robert Bell briefed members and guests of the Hudson Valley Center for Innovation in New York State on Intelligent Communities and the Broadband Economy. Click here to see video coverage.
More>> | | | | ICF Opens 2009 Intelligent Community Awards Nominations |
| Published Sunday, June 15, 2008 |
| ICF opened the 2009 Intelligent Community Awards program for nominations on June 16. The deadline for completed nomination forms is September 30, 2008.
More>> | | | | The Intelligent Community Forum Announces the Recipients of the 2008 Intelligent Community Awards, Names Gangnam District in Seoul the Intelligent Community of the Year |
| Published Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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 The ICF named Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea as the Intelligent Community of the Year for 2008. In addition, ICF announced the winners of the inaugural Founders Awards and honored the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year 2008, Scot Rourke, during the Intelligent Community Awards ceremony. (See video coverage.) The annual awards were presented by the independent think tank as part of its annual conference, Building the Broadband Economy, produced in association with the Institute for Technology & Enterprise at Polytechnic University in New York City. The awards ceremony, held at Stage Six at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, was hosted by Verizon.
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| • | Building Your Own Intelligent Community: A Tale of Two Cities |
| When the mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, Barbara Halloran, traveled to Japan and met Mitaka, Japan's Mayor Keiko Kiyohara last year, they embraced, greeted each other warmly and began a long discussion that started with a mutual "congratulations Madame Mayor." This was not simply a meeting of two small city mayors looking to find areas of mutual interest or establish "sister city" relations. Her Worship Halloran and Madame Mayor Kiyohara were the leaders of communities that had each been named the world's most Intelligent Community of the year.
More>> | | | | • | Making Connections |
| Toronto was the final stop on a five-city tour for more than a dozen international delegates involved in the Intelligent Community Forum’s program called, Immersion Lab North America 2008. The tour, which started in Philadelphia May 12, went to New York, Cleveland and Waterloo, and immersed the participants in four North American cities that have made the broadband economy work for them. The tour ended in Toronto yesterday with a presentation of the iWaterfront plans.
More>> | | | | • | Gangnam District in Seoul Named the Intelligent Community of the Year |
| The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea as the Intelligent Community of the Year for 2008. In addition, ICF announced the winners of the inaugural Founders Awards and honored the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year 2008, Scot Rourke, during the Intelligent Community Awards ceremony. The goal of the awards is to increase awareness of the role that broadband communication and information technology play in economic and social development worldwide.
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