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. 

In 1996, a group of Florida educators, business owners and economic developers teamed to create the Florida High Tech Corridor Council in an effort to make Florida, known worldwide as a tourist destination, a viable place for high-tech industries.  The Corridor includes 21 counties stretching across the center of the state from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic to Tampa Bay on the Gulf coast.  This regional community now contain 6,800 high-tech companies employing more than 158,000 workers in optics and photonics, medical technology, information technology, aviation and aerospace, simulation and training, and microelectronics.  Business Week has rated it one of the fastest-growing technology centers in America.  In terms of broadband, the region ranks among the best-served in the nation, with the local carrier, Verizon, having invested more than $1.7 billion in the last five years.  For consumers and small businesses, companies including Verizon, GTE, RoadRunner, Time Warner, Earthlink and AOL deliver DSL and cable modem service — an array of providers that most Americans can only dream about.  

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.