Intelligent Community Forum
| Abbreviation | ICF |
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| Motto | Help communities use information and communications technology (ICT) to create inclusive prosperity, tackle social and governance challenges and enrich their quality of life. |
| Type | Nonprofit organization think tank |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, United States |
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Chairman
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Rob van Gijzel |
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Key people
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Revenue (2015)
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$107,500 |
| Expenses (2015) | $68,992 |
| Website | www.intelligentcommunity.org |
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a nonprofit policy research organization, focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy. The group focuses on economic effects of broadband, community-based best practices, and annual Intelligent Community Awards.
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 research, creates conference content, publishes information and presents annual awards, 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.
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 Summit conference in New York City, produced in association with Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
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