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A $1 billion investment in technology from Intel in wireless broadband helps to bridge the 'digital divide' in the developing world, and creates connections to industrialized countries.  Connectivity is delivering big impacts on education, healthcare and daily life.  This video does a good job of describing how emerging economies are using connectivity to make a substantial difference to the lives of their citizens. 

At its 2009 annual shareholders meeting, Sony Corporation played a video dramatizing the pace of innovation of the past decades and the expected acceleration in the decade that begins in 2010.  The questions it asks challenge all of our assumptions about how to prepare our communities, businesses and citizens for a continued and rising wave of change.

In a video address, the Mayor of Stockholm, Sweden (2009 Intelligent Community of the Year) congratulated the communities named to ICF's Smart21 Communities of 2010.  Mayor Sten Nordin describes the features of Stockholm that made it the current Intelligent Community of the Year and welcomes the latest group of Intelligent Communities to our global alumni.

Alcatel-Lucent has produced a video, posted to YouTube and "targeted at mums and dads" in which it "seeks to overcome the widespread misunderstanding that the National Broadand Network is just about 'faster Internet' and in which it tells views that the NBN is "every Australian's right." 

To celebrate its selection as one of ICF's 2009 Top Seven Intelligent Communities, Moncton produced a dynamic animated video explaining the community's journey from a declining "railroad town" in the 1980s to the fastest-growing municipality in Atlantic Canada. 

When Fredericton was named as one of ICF's 2009 Top Seven Intelligent Communities for the second year in a row, it produced a video describing the city's transformation from an institutional economy to an entrepreneurial economy based on broadband communications, and home to more entrepreneurs per capita than any other city in Canada.