Publications

Books

Brain Gain

How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption

Seizing Our Destiny

2012’s best communities to live, work, grow and prosper in – and how they got that way

Broadband Economies

Creating the Community of the 21st Century

Future Cities

Designing Better, Smarter, More Sustainable and Secure Cities

Switched On

Australia's First Online Community, Ipswich Queensland

MegaCrunch

Ten Survival Strategies for 21st Century Challenges

Reports and White Papers

Humanizing Data
This research report provides examples of what the top Intelligent Communities of 2018 have done to humanize data for their people, businesses and institutions.

Creating Champions of Change
This research report shows dynamics, strategies and successful examples of Advocacy in action in Intelligent Communities.

No Neighbor Left Behind
This research report shows dynamics, definitions and successful examples of Digital Equality in action in Intelligent Communities.

Building the Innovation Ecosystem
This research report shows how two Intelligent Communities foster a local ecosystem of private-sector innovation by facilitating startup culture.

The Intelligent Community in Numbers – Class of 2018 (Infographic)
This infographic shares some of the findings of the Intelligent Community in Numbers report.

The Intelligent Community in Numbers 2017
This new research report is a statistical portrait of the Intelligent Community.

Humanizing Data
Data has become the heartbeat of the new economy and the lifeblood of smart public policy in the 21st Century.

Innovation and the Public Sector
ICF profiles four Intelligent Communities in Australia, Canada, Finland and the United States, and their distinct approaches to digital innovation in the public sector.

Ladders of Opportunity
ICF shares the strategies and experiences of four Intelligent Communities in building the workforce of the future.

The Internet of Cities
While technologists sing the praises of the Internet of Things, we celebrate the Internet of Cities.

Sharpening Canada's Competitive Edge
Published by ICF and ICF Canada, a report analyzing 27 Canadian intelligent communities.

Broadband: the essential utility
An evidence-based case that broadband should be declared an essential utility. Published by ICF Canada.

Creating City to City Connections 2016
How two cities on opposite sides of the Atlantic built a relationship that translated into economic value, with the promise of more to come.