i-Canada

Creating an Intelligent Nation, Community By Community

i-CANADA is a nation of Intelligent Communities large and small, central and remote, all enjoying the economic development, job growth and social prosperity now available in the worlds leading Intelligent Communities or Smart Cities. I-CANADA is expanding upon Canadas Islands of Excellence like Calgary, Fredericton, Moncton, Stratford, Waterloo and Windsor, which have all been recognized for excellence by the Global Intelligent Community Forum. A focus on communities is vital, because more than half of the worlds people are urban-dwellers today. It seems common for us, yet city-dwelling is a radical transformation for humanity. While there was only a onein-ten chance that your grandparents would have lived in a city, the odds are more than three-in-one that your children will live in a city. Communities are an increasingly strong vortex of attraction. We are adding a major city the size of New York to the planet almost every month. Some 500 million people are in the process of urbanizing at this moment. Cities consume 75% of the worlds energy and produce 85% of the worlds greenhouse gases. The fact of urbanization is the central transforming event of our lifetime. How civic leaders cope with the influx of people and deal with issues such as infrastructure, new ultra broadband communications and information technologies, health care, security and commerce, is a major concern today. At the same time, opportunities abound as these leaders transform their communities through the application of evolving computer and communications technologies. Copenhagen has smart energy, Kyoto has smart government, Stockholm has smart traffic, Zurich has smart healthcare, New York has smart crime fighting... The fact that these cities have locked onto is that the rate of innovation in a community increases as the social and physical networking increase. And innovation is the key to sustainable prosperity.

While many textbooks describe the benefits of Creative Cities, Digital Cities, Smart Cities, and Intelligent Communities, the real challenge faced by our community leaders is how to mobilize the community to pursue these benefits in an organized and systematic manner that effectively communicates to all citizens the goals, benefits and processes involved in the transformation. Smart Valley, (in Silicon Valley) and Intelligent Island, (in Singapore) were early 90s versions of Smart and Intelligent Communities. We now have twenty years of lessons learned and the benefits gained from these early communities along with hundreds of others who have transformed themselves to achieve the economic, environmental and social benefits available through the effective application of new computing and ultra broadband technologies The challenge for many communities is to find a framework and set of processes that will guide them through their transformation -- a transformation achievable through the i-Canada process.

iIntroducing i-Canada
i-CANADA is based on twenty years of global experience in creating Intelligent Communities. Lessons learned are adapted from our transformational work with i-CANADA , Hong Kong iyears Cyberport, Singapore, Waterfront Torontos revitalization, Malaysia, Taiwan, and years of experience with finalists for Intelligent Community of the Year.

Work i-CANADA Builds on the Work of the Intelligent Community Forum, ICF
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) of New York has defined an Intelligent Community as those communities that have taken conscious steps to create an economy that prospers through the use of Broadband. The annual ICF competition for Intelligent Community of the Year and receives over 300 nominations annually from communities large and small from around the world. Each year the ICF narrows down the nominations to the Top Seven and some communities have been in the Top 7 category for a few years before achieving Intelligent Community of the year. Forty different communities have been named to the Top Seven since 2002. Eleven of them have populations over one million people while 29 are under one million, thus demonstrating the opportunity for communities of all size. Stockholm, Taipei, Glasgow, Singapore and Waterloo, Canada are a few of those who have won the Intelligent Community of the Year award as they transformed their communities through economic, social and environmental initiatives and created new economic growth and social prosperity for all citizens.

The ICF has defined the Five Primary Characteristics of an Intelligent Community

The i-CANADA Systems Approach to Creating an Intelligent Community

The i-CANADA Program is supported by a proven open architecture model and a complete set of frameworks, templates, benchmarks and measurements to help communities recognize the opportunities and manage the transition to an Intelligent Community as defined by the Intelligent Community Forum. The design of the Program is based on twenty years of experience in building Intelligent Communities and i-CANADAs with i-CANADA and other international initiatives.

How Do You Get There? First Comes a Road Map

Road Map to the Intelligent Community

Intelligent Community

Pilot Infrastructure Framework Initial Strategy Mobilize the Thinkers

Demonstration Centres

Finalize Consensus

Finalize the Strategy

Early Pilots Pilot Ideas Goals Definition

Infrastructure Framework

Early Version Intelligent Community

Demonstration Centres Plus

Advanced Infrastructure Framework

i-Health i-Learning i-Community i-Business i-Entertainment

Mobilize the Community, Finalize the plans Year 1

Install and Operate Early Pilots Year 2

Review Results and Finalize the Strategy Year 3

Intelligent Community Next Phase Year 3

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architecture Second , you need an overall architecture showing the principal components. The Intelligent Community Open Architecture Model: i-COA is a proven Framework with many connected elements. It is not just about constructing great buildings, (Layer 1) or creating a new traffic solution, (Layer 4). New ultra broadband is required, (Layer 2) and so are new innovation clusters, (Layer 3). Even more important is the interplay between all elements in the model.

Intelligent Community Open Architecture: i-COA

Life: Live, Learn, Work, Play Applications: e-Health, e-Education, e-Government, e-Community, e-Business, e-Arts Collaboration Ecosystem: Creativity, Innovation, Community Animation, Facilitation, Social Networks Infrastructure: Communications, Roads Rail, Transit, Water, Energy, Waste Place: Buildings, Parks, Waterfronts
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Leadership

Finally a number of templates, platforms and measurements are requried: includes: The i-CANADA Intelligent Community Development Plan includes: The i-COA Model A collaboration and process framework and governance model Core i-community platforms, Benchmarks Sustainability planning Measurement models to track progress and returns on investment.

Meeting Community Goals

Every community has different priorities when transforming to become an Intelligent Community and all proposed i-Community programs should focus on the communitys inherent skills and advantages. Some communities like Singapore have a strong manufacturing sector and logistics is important to them. Others like Stratford in Canada are building new digital media capacity based on their heritage as a creative theatrical community. The figure below provides an example of possible community goals and projects that could relate to those goals:

Meet our i-CANADA Leaders to learn more:

Bill Hutchison Chair, i-CANADA Barry Gander Co-founder, i-CANADA Email: bill.hutchison@hutchison-management.com Email: bgander@cata.ca
www.i-canada-network.ca