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One Month Until the Summit - What You Should Know
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

As the annual Summit draws near, ICF has compiled the essential information you should know in preparation for the big event.

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Dublin, Ohio’s Dana L. McDaniel to Receive Intelligent Community Forum Lifetime Achievement Award
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
New York City – 21 May 2013 – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a New York-based think tank dedicated to studying the use of   read full article >>
 
The Rural Imperative
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Folsom, California - Small, rural communities get into a cycle of decline where the smaller they get, the more drivers there are to get even smaller.   read full article >>
 
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Tianjin, China (2006)
Sunday, January 1, 2006

Founded in 1404, Tianjin is the biggest coastal city and largest seaport in northern China.  It functions as neighboring Beijing's gateway to the sea, and is one of four Chinese municipalities under the direct jurisdiction of the central government.  This city of 11 million has a strong industrial base in automobiles, pharmaceuticals, metallurgy, petrochemicals and such new fields as environmental services, and saw GDP growth of nearly 16% from 2003 to 2004, when its total output was worth US$36.3 billion.  The city added 214,500 new jobs in 2004, 18% more than the prior year and saw per-capita income rise 14%.

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John Jung, ICF Co-Founder, To Deliver Keynote at Keynote at the Webcom Forum in Montreal
Date: May 28, 2013
John Jung will be giving a Keynote Speech at Webcom Montreal on May 28, 2013. Webcom Montreal is a More>>
 
Oulu Harvest
Date: June 4, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sullivan & Worcester, in conjunction with Oulu, Capital of Northern Scandinavia, will host the More>>
 
Summit 2013
Date: June 5 - 7, 2013
Time: 12:00 am
Innovation & Employment The ICF Summit is an international gathering of mayors, chief More>>
 
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• World's most intelligent communities to share stories in Toronto
Toronto, Canada - IT Business writes about a June conference in Toronto that will explore why smaller cities like Oulu in Finland, Tallinn in Estonia and Canada’s own Stratford, Ont. made the Intelligent Community
 
• Taichung visited by ICF from April 18-19 after being named one of Top7 most Intelligent Communities
Taichung, Taiwan - The City of Taichung has provided a full summary of this year's visit to the city by ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla as part of the judging process to determine the Intelligent Community of the Year. Read
 
• Waterfront Toronto pumps billions into economy and now needs power to raise revenue: Hume
Toronto, Canada - As investments go, Toronto’s waterfront has turned out to be one of the best. The New York-based think tank Intelligent Community Forum ranks Toronto as a Top7 Intelligent Community and the waterfront
 
 
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• Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dazzled by the potential of free online college classes, educators are now turning to the gritty task of harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in American higher education:
 
• Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class
The so-called creative class of intellects and artists was supposed to remake America’s cities and revive urban wastelands. Now the evidence is in—and the experiment appears to have failed, writes Joel Kotkin.
 
• Fewer Cell Towers Are Shut Down in Afghanistan, Minister Says
Storms and weather damage; systems failure; squirrels chewing through fiber-optic cables, as happened at one British university in the 1990s — there’s no shortage of ways to disrupt systems. But in Afghanistan
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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