The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named the world’s Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2018. This is the think tank’s 16th annual Top7 list of regions, cities or towns that have gone, in ICF’s words, “from smart city to intelligent community.”

This year’s list includes communities from four nations, with Taiwan contributing three, Canada two communities and Australia and Finland one each. The seven will travel to London in June where one will go on to be named the Intelligent Community of the Year, succeeding Melbourne, Australia, the reigning community.

The announcement will take place as the culminating event at the ICF Global Summit from 4-6 June at Siemens’ Crystal Facility and other sites around London.

In alphabetical order, the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2018 are:

Chiayi City, Taiwan
Espoo, Finland
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Tainan City, Taiwan
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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