[governance] FW: ICF Announces Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2009

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	ICF Announces the Top Seven Communities of 2009

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(Honolulu, Hawaii & New York City, January 21, 2009) - The Intelligent
Community Forum announced today its list of the Top Seven Communities of
2009 during a luncheon ceremony at PTC '09. The Top Seven announcement is
the second stage of ICF's annual Intelligent Community awards cycle.
Gaining a place among the Top Seven is a major achievement as well as a step
toward even greater recognition for communities working to create prosperity
and social inclusion in what ICF terms the "Broadband Economy."  The cycle
concludes in New York City on May 15, 2009 during ICF's annual Building the
Broadband Economy Summit (www.icfsummit.com), where one of the Top Seven
will succeed the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea as Intelligent
Community of the Year.

The Top Seven of 2009
The following communities, drawn from the Smart21 of 2009, were named to the
Top Seven based on analysis of their nominations by a team of independent
academic experts:  

*	Bristol, Virginia, USA. As a first time honoree, Bristol made an
impact after taking on incumbent telcos in court and the state legislature
to win the right to deploy a fiber network called OptiNet.  Conceived as a
backbone serving government and schools, OptiNet has grown into a
fiber-to-the-premises network for business and residents in Bristol and four
neighboring counties.  It has also attracted more than $50 million in
private investment, including the region's first technology employers, and
improved rural education and healthcare by connecting local providers to
leading institutions.   

*	Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Eindhoven metropolitan area (a 2008
Smart21) has long been the industrial heart of the Netherlands.  Through a
public-private collaboration called Brainport, the region is ramping up its
knowledge economy to maintain and accelerate growth in a hyper-competitive
global market, while at the same time coping with an aging population and
shrinking workforce.  Among more than 40 public-private projects are an
award-winning coop that has brought FTTP and a broadband culture of use to
the suburb of Neunen, and the SKOOL outsourced IT management system for
public schools. 

*	Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. For most of its history,
government and education were the economic mainstays of Fredericton (a 2008
Top Seven).  When it could not get broadband from the private sector,
Fredericton founded the e-Novations coop, which deployed a fiber ring that
spurred competition, giving the city a 70% penetration rate at speeds of up
to 18 Mbps.  The next step was the Fred-eZone wireless network, which
provides free WiFi service across 65% of the city.  The combination of
broadband, entrepreneurship and Fredericton's universities has powered the
creation of over 12,000 jobs. 

*	Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Issy-les-Moulineax (a 2006 Top Seven)
became the industrial zone of Paris in the early 20th Century only to suffer
de-industrialization in the post-war years.  Beginning in 1980, a visionary
mayor focused policy on creating an innovative, IT-based knowledge economy,
implementing e-government, outsourcing IT needs, and taking advantage of
liberalization to attract competitive fiber carriers deploying
cost-effective broadband.  Public-private innovation includes a
cyber-kindergarten for children, cyber tearooms for older citizens, citizen
e-participation in decision-making, a successful business incubator and
ICT-based real estate projects. 

*	Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Twenty years ago, the Moncton region
was a former railroad and industrial hub facing a doubtful future.  Since
then, this bilingual community has become a major Canadian customer contact
and back office center, and built a "near-shore" IT outsourcing industry.
Private-sector carriers have collaborated in the city's growth as a
telecom-centric economy, and helped power the addition of 20,000 new jobs
since the early 1990s.  

*	Stockholm, Sweden. In the mid-90s, Stockholm, the economic and
political capital of Sweden, established a company called Stokab to build an
open-access fiber network.  Today, the 4,500 km network connects more than
90 competing service providers to government and business customers.  Though
the city already has a 98% broadband penetration rate, Stokab will also
provide FTTP access to over 95,000 low-income households in public housing
by the end of 2009.  Stockholm also manages KISTA Science City, housing more
than 1,400 companies, plus a support program for start-up and early-stage
companies.  

*	Tallinn, Estonia. Three-time Top Seven community Tallinn has risen
from post-Soviet economic ruin to become an economic tiger largely on the
strength of ICT.  Making creative use of people and funding, Tallinn
computerized its schools and deployed widespread WiFi as well as nearly 700
public access kiosks.  The city also developed a large-scale digital skills
training program, extensive e-government, and an award-winning smart ID
card.  Through partnerships, it developed high-tech parks including Ulemiste
City, Tallinn Technology Park and Cooperative Cyber Defence Center.  Rated
#2 worldwide for economic potential by the Financial Times, Tallinn is home
to half of Estonia's companies, which receive 77% of the country's foreign
direct investment. 

Complete profiles of the communities will be available on ICF's Web site
following publication of the white paper, The Top Seven Intelligent
Communities of 2009, in February.

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