A $1 billion investment in technology from Intel in wireless broadband helps to bridge the 'digital divide' in the developing world, and creates connections to industrialized countries.  Connectivity is delivering big impacts on education, healthcare and daily life.  This video does a good job of describing how emerging economies are using connectivity to make a substantial difference to the lives of their citizens. 

Calgary is a western city of 900,000 people that is one of the fastest-growing communities in Canada.  Best known as a center of the Canadian oil industry and for its annual “Stampede” celebration of its cowboy heritage, Calgary also has a significant telecommunications and wireless manufacturing base, and over 1,300 software companies with expertise in geomatics and image processing.  It has more miles of optical fiber than any city in Canada, according to the Yankee Group, and broadband Internet is accessible to 99% of residences.  In the ten years between 1988 to 1998, technology employment tripled to over 9% of the labor force, and technology employers include IBM, EDS, AT&T, Vertitas, Shaw Communications, Nortel Networks and TELUS.

Canada posted three communities, including Ontario, to ICF's Smart21 of 2010.

Riverside, CA was one of the communities named to ICF's Smart21 on October 16.

Three Virginia, USA communities were named to ICF's Smart21.