The Intelligent Community Institute™ Canada (Atlantic) is ICF’s first Canadian Institute, operating from New Brunswick Community College in Fredericton. It was created to contribute to the acceleration of regional economic and community growth through the use of broadband and information technology and spread the Community Accelerator Strategy through workshops, consulting, research and events. 

The Institute is one of several such organizations licensed through ICF. Each Institute focuses on educating and assisting communities in becoming proficient in the Community Accelerator Strategy Factors – connectivity, knowledge work, innovation, engagement, inclusion and sustainability.

New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) is a community college with campuses in Moncton, Miramichi, Fredericton, Saint John, St. Andrews and Woodstock across the province of New Brunswick. It offers more than 90 programs across 18 industrial sectors to students, who learn in a dynamic environment through hands-on training, state-of-the-art equipment and real-world experiences that prepare them to step into the workplace with expertise and confidence.

An Intelligent Community must work for everybody is to work for anybody

In its inaugural year, the Intelligent Community Institute Canada (Atlantic) introduced existing ICF programs including Intelligent Community Certification, Community Accelerator training and Community Assessment to Atlantic Canada. Moving forward, it is developing programs and projects specific to the region with a particular focus on accessibility technologies and their application to underserved communities across the country. The Institute is providing a highly visible stage for the global promotion of Intelligent Community innovations developed in New Brunswick, along with extensive international networking opportunities which will in return bring the best global innovations and Intelligent Community thinking into Atlantic Canada.

Accomplishments 

Q4 2024

ACCESS: Inaugural Conference of the Intelligent Community Institute Canada (Atlantic)

Inauguration of I7 network of award-winning ICF communities to explore critical community development issues and solutions

New Brunswick Community College offers ICF Community Accelerator online training

2025

Developing research programs in intelligent infrastructure, intelligent training and intelligent education

Partnerships with Colleges Genomics Network of Canada, Horizon Europe consortia and Clean Energy Institute