IBM has launched the CityOne, an on-line game that can help city leaders, businesses, and students figure out how to make cities work better by simulating transportation, environmental, business and logistical problems. The game is part of the Big Blue’ s broader “Smarter Planet’ initiative.
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Businessweek publishes a series of articles by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams on using the power of collaboration to reboot business and the world. The Harvard Business Review also has a podcast, featuring Don Tapscott on the same subject.
The latest issue of Nature journal examines the special relationship between scientists and cities and how each can bring out the best in the other. It contains lots of great and feature articles on the synergy between urban areas and scientific innovation.
Richard Florida, and his colleagues in Martin Prosperity Institute published two papers on the Creative Class concept entitled “The Creative Class Paradigm’ and “The Creative Class, Post-Industrialism and the Happiness of Nations’
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) announced its list of the Smart21 Communities of 2011. The list includes communities from 12 nations. There are six communities from the USA, four from Canada, two from China and one each from the UK, Brazil, Netherlands, Australia, France, India, Hungary, Taiwan and Greece.