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The Intelligent Community Forum is known for its international Awards program, which names the Smart21, the Top Seven and the Intelligent Community of the Year. The Awards program is also an ongoing research project. Each year, hundreds of communities submit detailed nomination forms to ICF. We analyze this information to identify and document best practices in broadband deployment, knowledge workforce development, digital inclusion, innovation and marketing and advocacy. We then share this information with communities around the world, in order to help them benchmark themselves agains their global competition and better meet the challenges of the Broadband Economy. Our work helps:
- Steer communities onto the path of sustainable and inclusive economic growth
- Invigorate entrepreneurship and the creation of knowledge economies at the local level
- Reduce the economic inequality that leads to social disfunction
- Keep the children in the village: preventing the "brain drain" of young talent that dooms communities to stagnation
- Empower communities to re-energize local culture and give it new economic expression
- Promote greater citizen participation and greater transparency and accountability in government
Join Our Family of Contributors
Your contributions to ICF support our Awards program, the Building the Broadband Economy summit, and our research programs. You may make a contribution to ICF in the following ways (donations are nonrefundable):
Patrons (Minimum US$10,000)
ICF Patrons are essential partners in all of our international
activities. Patrons receive an invitation for two to ICF's exclusive
Intelligent Communities Alumni Dinner in New York and five complimentary
registrations for Building the Broadband Economy. Patrons are
also gratefully acknowledged across all of our international programs.
For contributions of $25,000 or more, ICF will provide corporate or
institutional Patrons with brand recognition in one of the following
programs: the Top Seven Announcement or the Intelligent Community Awards
ceremony.
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ICF Patrons & Friends
Jim Balsillie,
Co-CEO, RIM
 William Lin, CEO, Dragon Telecom
 William Hutchison, Waterfront Toronto
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