Smart21 Communities of 2011

The Intelligent Community Forum (www.intelligentcommunity.org) announced its highly anticipated list of the Smart21 Communities of 2011.

The announcement was made by ICF Co-founder Louis Zacharilla at an event hosted by Suwon, South Korea, ICF's 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. The Smart21 announcement is the first stage of ICF's annual Intelligent Community Awards cycle. It is followed by the naming of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year, selected from among the 21. The Top Seven announcement will be made on January 19, 2011 at the annual Pacific Telecommunications Council conference (www.ptc.org) in Honolulu, Hawaii during an awards luncheon. The cycle concludes in New York City on June 3, 2011 during ICF's annual Building the Broadband Economy Summit (www.icfsummit.com), where one of the Top Seven will succeed Suwon as Intelligent Community of the Year 2011. Each year ICF defines a theme that guides the nominations for the Intelligent Community of the Year. The 2011 theme is "Health in the Intelligent Community." The Smart21 Communities of 2011 have shown moving and innovative approaches to the delivery of better care as well as an increase in productivity and elimination of unnecessary costs. These developments take on ever-increasing importance at a time when the Baby Boom generation is entering its elder years and costs are expected to rise as a result. At the same time, they are promoting the growth of highly competitive clusters of companies in traditional healthcare as well as emerging fields in which information and communications technology are used to improve quality, transparency and productivity in healthcare and life sciences.

The Smart21 of 2011

• Birmingham, UK
• Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
• Chongqing, China
• Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
• Dakota County, Minnesota, USA
• Danville, Virginia, USA
• Dublin, Ohio, USA
• Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
• Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
• Northeast Ohio, USA
• Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
• Riverside, California, USA
• Shanghai, China
• Sopron, Hungary
• Stratford, Ontario, Canada
• Taoyuan County, Taiwan
• Trikala, Greece
• Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada