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Intelligent Community of the Year


2024 Intelligent Community of the Year recipient, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, Part 2

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · January 22, 2025 12:48 AM · 1 reaction

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dario Paixao, City Secretary for Economic Development, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence.

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2024 Intelligent Community of the Year recipient, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, Part 1

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · January 08, 2025 11:22 AM · 1 reaction

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dario Paixao, City Secretary for Economic Development, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence.

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The Night Vietnam Landed on the Moon

Posted on News & Media by Louis Zacharilla · October 30, 2023 12:16 PM · 1 reaction

I told them.

I told them when I was in Vietnam during my first visit there in December 2016. I told them at a talk I gave to the leadership of its new “rocket to the future,” the smart city of Binh Duong. I told the big shots from its government what they were building.

I told them that in my country (the USA), the hope of the tortured 20th Century was given a boost by the landing on the Moon. It gave people everywhere a new sense of hope, a feeling of possibilities and wonders to come. The technology that flowed from the innovations that had to take place to get men on the Moon, over time, became part of the global economy and embedded in the world we live in today, especially the world of communications. It fed engineering schools new, inspired students who wanted to go to work for NASA or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or General Foods, makers of Tang, the first orange drink mix the astronauts had with them in space! It enabled young, aspiring poets like me to wonder about the workings and nature of the universe, which had opened up like the clouds of a Renaissance painting.

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To Relieve the Burdens of Living

Posted on News & Media by Louis Zacharilla · November 21, 2022 2:29 PM · 1 reaction

On October 27, a delegation from New Taipei City, Taiwan (which for the uninitiated is NOT Taipei) literally and metaphorically crossed the Bridge.

That afternoon, New Taipei City, along with members of the Top7 communities of the Year, walked toward the Scioto River in Central Ohio, through the streets of Dublin. Dublin is a testament to the concept of “New Urbanism” and a case study in political will and vision. We slowly came to the foot of the US$23 million Dublink Bridge, the largest “S” shaped walking bridge in North America. It is breathtakingly beautiful and the only bridge in North America – or the world – named after a fiber optic telecommunications network! A municipally built one at that.

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New Taipei City Named 2022 Intelligent Community of the Year

Posted on News & Media by Matthew Owen · October 27, 2022 8:35 PM · 1 reaction

New Taipei City is the Fourth Taiwanese City to Be Named in the History of the Awards Program

(October 27, 2022 – New York City, NY & Dublin, OH) – For the second time in four years, the Intelligent Community Forum honored a Taiwanese city with its top award today when it named New Taipei City as its 2022 Intelligent Community of the Year. New Taipei City had been previously named a five-time Smart21 Community and four-time Top7 Community since first entering the ICF Awards program in 2012. The announcement was made during the annual Intelligent Community Awards Dinner at the State of Ohio (USA) Statehouse in Columbus, the culminating event of this year’s ICF Global Summit conference hosted by the City of Dublin, Ohio and the Global Institute for the Study of the Intelligent Community, based in Dublin.

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A Conversation with Winnipeg: Intelligent Community of the Year

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 22, 2021 4:23 PM


Winnipeg is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, located in the center of the North American continent. Winnipeg’s economy is dominated by agriculture, energy, manufacturing and a growing tech scene. 

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Winnipeg named 'World’s Top Intelligent Community' for 2021

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · November 02, 2021 11:13 AM · 1 reaction

Manitoba's capital is snatching up another prestigious title, this time for its digital brains.

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named Winnipeg this year's World’s Top Intelligent Community. This award is bestowed onto a community for its competitiveness in the digital economy.

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Winnipeg named most intelligent community for 2021

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · November 02, 2021 11:11 AM · 1 reaction

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg has been named the most intelligent community for 2021 by an independent think tank, beating out contenders in Australia, Brazil, Russia, and Vietnam.

The title was bestowed on Winnipeg by the Intelligent Community Forum, marking the first time Winnipeg has been selected by the ICF. Winnipeg has placed in the top seven three other times in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is Honored as the 2021 Intelligent Community of the Year by the Intelligent Community Forum at its Virtual Global Summit

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · October 28, 2021 2:11 PM · 1 reaction

(October 28, 2021 – New York City) – For the first time since 2016, the Intelligent Community Forum honored a Canadian city with its top award today when it named Winnipeg, Manitoba as its 2021 Intelligent Community of the Year. Winnipeg is a veteran of the Intelligent Community Awards program, having been previously named a nine-time Smart21 Community and four-time Top7 Community since first entering the program in 2011.

“Over the past nine years, we have watched Winnipeg evolve in its strategy and the maturity and interconnectedness of its programs,” said co-founder Louis Zacharilla, who led the award ceremony. “Like so many of the Intelligent Communities of the Year, it is a mid-size city proud of the diversity of its people, its economy and its cultures. There is much to learn from their example.”

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State unveils complete 3D map of Estonia

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · April 07, 2021 12:46 PM · 1 reaction

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the Land Board have unveiled an application that has overlaid three-dimensional building renders over the map of Estonia, allowing people to visualize most buildings in Estonia.

Artu Ellmann, Deputy Director General of the Land Board, said the Geo3D strategic program will be supplemented with further 3D data and additional services. The recently published three-dimensional map is the first of the services.

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