Intelligent Cities

What Makes an Intelligent Community Work?

Which parameter would you consider first if you were to judge the success of an intelligent community? The extent to which it is wired and how ICT is shaping its development, perhaps? Taking as starting point these questions, Digital Communities portal presents some of the top Intelligent Communities of 2010. Continue reading…

Intelligent Community Association

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) announced the formation of the Intelligent Community Association (ICA) from communities which have honored over the last decade in ICF’s Intelligent Community Award program. Continue reading…

Suwon, Korea named Intelligent Community of the year 2010

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named Suwon, South Korea, the nation’s second largest city, as the Intelligent Community of the Year for 2010. ICF focused less on technology than on Suwon’s development of the “human software” within this highly-educated community. Continue reading…

Digital Tools for Intelligent Cities

This slideshow examines a series of mobiles technologies which can improve the physical space of cities offering more choices to the citizens who may profit from ambient, collaborative, and swarm intelligence. Continue reading…

Knowledge Cities World Summit 2010

The Third Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS 2010) will be held in Melbourne, Australia between 16 and 19 November 2010. Following the First Summit in Monterrey, Mexico (2007) and the Second in Shenzhen, China (2009), the Third KCWS in Melbourne, Continue reading…

Smart Growth and Green Cities – LEED for ND

In 2009 concluded the consultation phase of  the LEED for Neighborhood Development. This rating system is designed to certify exemplary development projects that perform well in terms of smart growth, new urbanism, and green building. Continue reading…

The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2010

The Intelligent Community Forum named the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2010 at a 20 January ceremony during PTC’10, the annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Continue reading…

Metrics for Intelligent Cities

Metrics for Intel CitiesDifferent perspectives on the definition of metrics for intelligent cities, reflecting the structure and measuring their performance, converge to a few building blocks of metrics (broadband connectivity and e-services,  knowledge workforce and talent, innovation) outlining innovation and connectivity as core dimensions of intelligent cities. Continue reading…

Cyberport, Hong Kong

CyberportCyberport is an investment project of the Hong Kong SAR Government and managed by the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Ltd. The project is located on a 24 hectares public land and the overall investment was about 2 billion US$. Continue reading…

Innovative Cities and Global Competition

ShenzhenThe Second Knowledge Cities Summit was held in Shenzhen China, 5 and 6 November 2009. Main issues of the papers presented at the academic part of the conference were knowledge cities models Continue reading…