During its annual “Building the Broadband Economy” Summit on June 1, the Intelligent Community Forum will announce the creation of a Centers of Excellence project. The project is designed to brief nearly 100 intelligent community leaders who are part of what ICF calls its movement’s “Alumni,” on topics of key importance related to access technology implementation, broadband and IT and effective development of local economic and social activities.
Effective June 1, ICF will accept expressions of interest from companies, organizations and consortiums willing to provide in-depth, analytical content and briefings on a regular annual schedule to its group of intelligent community mayors, CIOs and other influencers. These represent cities, regions or towns that have been awarded the status of “intelligent community” through ICF’s trademarked awards program. The intelligent communities of the world are part of a non-profit trade association, which was chartered under ICF’s foundation in May 2010. The goal of the Centers, according to ICF Co-Founder Louis Zacharilla, is to work on developing projects and policies that will guide investment, management and innovations for communities at no cost to the communities. The ICF’s association and its intelligent communities working groups are chaired by the mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), Brenda Halloran.
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