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Building a Better Neighborhood

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · July 26, 2023 1:11 PM · 1 reaction

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Krista Nightengale, Executive Director at the Better Block Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to showing communities how to build a more walkable, bikeable, liveable neighborhood to improve quality of life and attract talent.

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Information and Politics in the Era of COVID

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · July 12, 2023 1:18 PM · 1 reaction

 

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is one of America’s most trusted epidemiologists. She publishes Your Local Epidemiologist, a widely read website and newsletter covering a range of public health issues that translates evolving science into readable language for the general public. In this episode of The Intelligent Community, she discusses information integrity and the politics of COVID in places as diverse as New York and Florida. This episode is the second part of ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla’s interview with Dr. Jetelina. Listen to Part 1.

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Public Health - How Can We Learn What is True in Time to Act?

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · June 28, 2023 12:52 PM · 1 reaction

Now that COVID is no longer a global pandemic, what is it? And what is the lesson communities learned over the past 3 years? In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Director of Population Health Analytics, to learn these answers and more.

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Turning Bits into Coin: The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · March 26, 2023 8:53 PM

Connectivity by itself adds little value – it is what people do with it that counts. Learn from communities that have leveraged their broadband assets for business retention and attraction, market differentiation, talent attraction for remote work and regional partnerships.

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Podcast - Smart City - More Than Just Technology

Posted on Podcast by Matthew Owen · July 26, 2022 7:48 PM · 1 reaction


ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla delivers a Keynote address at the 2022 Top7 Conference and Announcement in Binh Duong, Vietnam.
 

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The Moment of Truth: Syd Kitson

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 08, 2021 1:11 PM · 1 reaction

Syd Kitson is Chairman and CEO of Kitson & Partners, a Florida-based real estate company specializing in the creation and development of master-planned communities and commercial properties.

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Podcast - Rural Inequality, the Changing American Dream and more with Professor Jennifer Sherman

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · July 12, 2021 12:55 PM · 1 reaction

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Professor Jennifer Sherman of Washington State University about rural inequality, what the American Dream now looks like, social interactions and how they've changed over the past 18 months, and more. 

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Podcast - Tiit Terik Talks Tallinn: the 2020 Intelligent Community of the Year

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 09, 2020 2:11 PM · 1 reaction

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, Lou Zacharilla speaks with Tallinn City Council Chairman Tiit Terik about his reaction to Tallinn being named the 2020 Intelligent Community of the Year.

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Sorry Smart Cities – You Completely Missed the Point

Posted on News & Media by Robert Bell · August 04, 2020 3:58 PM · 1 reaction

Maybe it’s just me, but I keep thinking I hear the sound of “Smart City fatigue” setting in.

Since IBM coined the term and Cisco quickly followed its lead, there have been, according to the web, three generations of smart cities. There have been academic papers and workshops and massive conferences. Multinational, national and local programs have poured billions into projects. Technologies have been developed to improve how cities manage everything from energy, water, public safety and pollution to transportation, healthcare and tax collection. Consultants have prospered, IT systems sales have grown and CIOs have earned new respect. Now, after more than two decades of smart cities adoption, what do we have to show for all that investment?

Frankly, not much.

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20 Reasons for Becoming an Intelligent Community

Posted on News & Media by John G. Jung · August 13, 2018 12:53 PM · 1 reaction

“There are few things in life that are free. Being recognized as an Intelligent Community may just be one of them.”

That was the beginning of the blog on August 5, 2015 about the benefits that communities can expect by successfully applying to be recognized as a SMART21 Intelligent Community via https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/nominations. I have often been asked what the benefits are from the unique ICF Awards Program and I have referred them to the original blog from August 2015. But three years later, I felt we needed to update the original. Besides, the original listed only 12 benefits. Today, we are listing an amazing Top 20 Reasons.

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