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How to Select Your Very Own Intelligent Community of the Year intelligentcommunity.org
Posted by: Robert Bell on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 12:00:00 am In...
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Lou Zacharills samples the evening air of Langfang, China and... intelligentcommunity.org
A few evenings from now, and representatives from seven “true”...
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India's new National Telecom Policy (NTP) 2012 approved by Indian...
Hi Everyone. Interesting telecoms policy development in...
India’s New National Telecom Policy Approved; Unified Service Licenses, Intra-Circle MNP, Spectrum Reforms -
As Top7 Riverside, California prepares to come to the ICF Summit...
The Southern California city of Riverside was the richest city...
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Loop Trolley project may include a high-speed Internet system stltoday.com
UNIVERSITY CITY • Vintage streetcars will be used for the Loop...
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New blog -- Speed matters...or does it? smartconnectedcommunities.org
Last week I was one of the many speakers at “ Business and Bandwidth:...
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Cisco VNI Forecast Predicts Internet Upside Growth and Trends telecomtv.com
Results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast...
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The Evening Air of Langfang and the Top Seven Take Manhattan intelligentcommunity.org
A few evenings from now, and representatives from seven true...
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Thinking Bold in the Shadow of LA intelligentcommunity.org
Communities in the shadow of larger metropolitan areas need to...
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3 Goals Of White House 'Digital Government' Plan informationweek.com
Federal agencies required to make services available to mobile users within 12 months and to release more government data through Web APIs.

Almere Launches Smart Society Project in the Netherlands telecomtv.com
The Dutch city of Almere is looking into the question of how, and how far, new technologies can be deployed to make the city a safer, healthier, and more economical and habitable place. Almere, a master-planned municipality, is...

From US rural telecom association NTCA: For the smart rural community, broadband is just the beginning.
“A robust broadband network is the foundation of a smart rural community,” according to a new NTCA White Paper entitled The Smart Rural ...
For the Smart Rural Community, Broadband is Just the Beginning - The... jsicapitaladvisors.com
NTCA Paper Delivers Affirmations and Examples of RLEC-Enabled Smart Rural Communities “A robust broadband network is the foundation of a smart rural community,” according to an NTCA White Paper entitled The Smart Rural...

2012 Intelligent Community Awards
We opened nominations for the 2012 Intelligent Community Awards on July 4. Nominations will close on September 23. Complete criteria ...

NY City Mayor Bloomberg announces new Urban Sciences & Progress Center at NY University Polytechnic Institute, site of ICF's Summit 2012.
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas; in just a few more decades, the world's ...
In our current thinking, much of the existing 370 Jay Street building will be maintained, demolishing a modest section at one end to create a new six-story wing for state-of-the-art lab space. To make a quick start, we will...

Demo: How to Configure InterVLAN Routing On Layer 3 Switches? blog.router-switch.com
0 Posted by betsyyu on May 3, 2012 This video demo shows that how to configure InterVLAN routing on a Cisco Catalyst 3550 series switch. Video Demo: How to Configure InterVLAN Routing On Layer 3 Switches ? NOTE: VLANs divide...

New evidence that going green pays off management.fortune.cnn.com
FORTUNE -- Over and above what it does for Mother Earth, can investing in sustainability give businesses a dollars-and-cents competitive edge? Edward Conlon and Ante Glavas, two management professors at the Mendoza College of...

How to persuade Apple to donate iPads to your school - maybe
My conversation partner wanted to know what it would take to convince Apple to donate a lot of iPad tablets to her school. She was ...
Blog intelligentcommunity.org
My conversation partner was about four feet high, a woman of a certain age, and as relentless as an avalanche moving down a snowy slope. I had been speaking that afternoon to the Community Technology Day in Muskoka, Ontario,...

Trying to measure innovation in your community? Here are 8 traps to avoid.
Innovation is a tough thing to measure, and hidden assumptions and prejudices can make even the most earnest effort to measure it yield ...
The Innovation Measurement Trap - Innovation America innovationamerica.us
Measuring innovation can lead to unintended consequences. Here are eight ways to avoid the traps....

SmartRiverside named as 2012 Laureate in Computerworld honors program.
Computerworld magazine honored SmartRiverside, the nonprofit digital development agency of our Top Seven community, for innovation in ...
Annual Computerworld Honors Program Names 2012 Laureates marketwatch.com
FRAMINGHAM, MA, Mar 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- IDG's Computerworld Honors Program, honoring visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change, has selected 200...

ICF will announce its Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2012 on January 18, 13:00 Honolulu time.
The Top Seven are the 7 top-scoring communities among the Smart21 Communities announced on October 21 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, ...

How fast should 'superfast' broadband be?
Hi Everyone.
At a recent hearing of the House of Lords Inquiry into the UK national broadband strategy, Dr Peter Cochrane, a former BT ...
Juliette Garside: Former BT technology chief says the government's broadband plans are not ambitious enough and the UK is being left...

What Do You Have to Say about Broadband?
I’m developing a collection of best practices, “Winning the Battle for Better Broadband: Lessons learned from Chattanooga and others ...
Chattanooga Provides Best Practices for Community Broadband Planning roisforyou.wordpress.com
I think it’s safe to say, based on conversations with various people involved in broadband projects, that quite a few people involved with broadband projects feel they don’t know all they shoul...

Internet economy is the real deal, producing 8% annual growth in G20 nations and 18% in emerging markets.
The G-20 Internet economy will be worth $4.2 trillion by 2016, or 5.3 percent of those nations’ combined GDP, and almost double what it ...
Sad About Regular Economic Growth? Try the Internet Economy! allthingsd.com
The G-20 Internet economy will be worth $4.2 trillion by 2016, or 5.3 percent of those nations' combined GDP and almost double what it was last year.

It’s no secret that we're watching more online videos. What’s not so well understood is just how dramatically this consumption will soon increase — and the pain that is going to inflict on Internet service providers. Alon Maor,...

Looking into the cultural DNA of a European community that is a real innovation engine.
You function as a living, breathing whole in part because each cell in your body contains all of the genetic instructions for making a ...
Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) intelligentcommunity.org
Biology was one of my favorite sciences in secondary school. I liked it because it was descriptive rather than mathematical. It was not about applying abstract rules to make numbers behave in peculiar ways. It was about how real things fit together. Or, in the case of those frogs we all dissected, how they came apart.

Will Google’s Insanely-Fast Kansas City Network Shame U.S. ISPs? | Business | TIME.com business.time.com
Google's highly-anticipated plan to build an ultra-fast city broadband network kicked into gear Monday with the search giant's announcement that it will begin laying miles of fiber-optic cable across Kansas City, Kansas and...

When the Market Owns the Broadband Network
Large telcos and cable companies would have you believe that they are the “free market.” In reality, those individuals, businesses, ...
Want a Successful Stock Offering for Community Broadband?... roisforyou.wordpress.com
