Intelligent Community Forum


The Intelligent Community Forum is a non-profit policy research organization, focusing on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy. It highlights the economic effects of broadband, community-based best practices, and annual Intelligent Community Awards.

Mission

The Intelligent Community Forum is a think tank that studies the economic and social development of the 21st-century community. Whether in industrialized or developing nations, communities are challenged to create prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where jobs, investment and knowledge increasingly depend on advances in communications. For the 21st-century community, connectivity is a double-edge sword: threatening established ways of life on the one hand, and offering powerful new tools to build prosperous, inclusive and environmentally sustainable economies on the other. ICF seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth. ICF conducts , creates , publishes and presents , all in an effort to:
For ICF, a "community" is a town, village, city or metropolitan area – or occasionally a state, province or other larger region – that has a distinct identity and the ability to act in a unified manner as a single entity. Its citizens and businesses identify themselves with that community enough to set aside small-scale differences and cooperate for the good of the whole.

Awards

Since 1999, ICF has presented annual awards to the Intelligent Community, Intelligent Building, Intelligent Community Technology and Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year. Winners receive an award, a presentation photograph and assistance with promoting the award to their customers, constituents and stakeholders.
The Intelligent Community Awards are presented at ICF's annual conference in New York City, produced in association with Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Intelligent Community of the Year

The Intelligent Community of the Year is selected in the final stage of a 10-month award process that begins with selection of the Smart 21 Communities in November of the prior year. Selection of the Intelligent Community of the Year is based on research by Montreal-based E&B Data, developer of innovative information products for decisionmakers in the institutional, corporate and financial sectors.

Intelligent Community of the Year Award recipients

The honorees for the Intelligent Building, Intelligent Community Technology, Intelligent Community Visionary and Founder of the Year awards are selected by ICF based on nomination from developers, technology companies and experts in the field.

2016 Awards

In even-numbered years, ICF holds the Building the Broadband Economy Conference, for local government officials and their private-sector partners in telecom, IT, finance, real estate, and consulting.
BBE is produced in association with the Institute for Technology and Enterprise at Polytechnic Institute of New York University.