www.intelligentcommunity.com

Louis ZacharillaCo-Founder

ICF, New York

18 March 2014

New Voices for Eternal Truths

The Rise of the Intelligent Community

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Darkness & Light

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Consequences: Vanishing Hometowns, Brain Drains &

Shaken “Survivors”

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Aspiration & Dysfunction

“In Europe where the idea of the nation state formed, the state is losing its significance.”

- Henry Kissinger.

Tahrir Square, Egypt

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The Cairo of Light

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Old Voices“Empires of the future will be empires of the

mind.” - Winston Churchill (1943)

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A unique moment in the history of technology & economics

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Impacts of the Early Stage

Elimination of “Middle of Nowhere”

“Research” and “Knowledge” redefined. (Of $10T in consumer spending, $5T was “researched” on web before the purchase.) MOOCs, distance learning & “pajama capitalism”

Emergence of culture & quality of life as economic raw material

Cities and communities seizing their destinies again

Brain Gain (“Home Grown Talent”)

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Some Facts

In Austin (2012 Top7) the creative economy grew 25% during the recession, generating a US$4.3 billion economic sector with 49,000 jobs and $71 million in new taxes. (The rest of the economy flattened.)

While only 9% of USA jobs are in manufacturing, more than 35% of all engineers work in manufacturing. AND manufacturers account for 68% of the R&D spending in the USA.

In Waterloo, Canada libraries teach about their Intelligent Community status. Waterloo (population 120,000) produces 15% of all publicly-traded companies on Toronto Stock Exchange (20060

(“The triple helix”)

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Mission: To Energize Communities for the 21st Century

“There is no place like home.”

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ICF’s Mission

To study the economic and social development of the 21st Century community at the local level

To share best practices of Intelligent Communities to accelerate development of ALL communities

To enable a sustained, global dialogue among the world’s committed Thought Leaders

To look for a new “railroad.”

To give a new digital & poetic voice to old truths

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ICF Programs

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Why Do We Need an Intelligent Communities Movement?

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The Why Part Is Easy

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Recognition

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To Rethink the City Paradigm

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To arrest “brain drain”

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Have you noticed something?

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52% of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, it is projected to grow to 70%, placing demands on cities that far outstrip the current capabilities of most urban centers.

It is crowded!

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some good news if you aren’t a big city.

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“The Middle of Nowhere Is No More!”

“Is anything more poetic than an attractive place, which is producing jobs, oozing with talent and joyfully committed to telling itself and its children stories that they will pass on for generations about the year people stopped wanting them for their body, and instead became endlessly fascinated by their intelligence?” (11 Feb 2013)

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Libraries at the Center

Why Do We Need Them?

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A new dark age is a click away

For economic purposes the people of Venice, Hong Kong & NY live next door to the people of Stratford, Eindhoven and Suwon, leading to - Brain drain – a zero sum game

Investment Shifting – locations offering best mix of cost, appropriately-trained labor, broadband access & quality of life have it all – AND get to keep their kids home

Disintermediation – shortens product lifecycles, disrupts social continuity and puts premium on innovation

Local economic success – is increasingly dependent on your plug-in to global economy. If you’re not thinking globally, it’s hard to function locally. Libraries are the airports that take us around the world & bring us home.

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3 Ways into the 21st Century

Enter it kicking and screaming

Take the long way (like, through the 12th Century)

Or you can become an Intelligent Community community

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BROADBAND

KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE

INNOVATIONADVOCACYDIGITAL INCLUSION

Intelligent Community Challenge to Northern Italy

Indicators

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Empires of the Mind

“The great advances are made not by individuals so much as by environments. It is not a coincidence that

innovations tend to come in bundles.”

Everything is Illuminated, J Safran Foer

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Observed characteristics of Intelligent Communities Issy-les-Moulineaux & Taichung (Taiwan):

Inspirational leadership & at least one champion

Eindhoven & Stratford: “Triple Helix” among local govt, private sector & academic and learning institutions (egos left at the door)

Stockholm : Plan human environments first (innovation, creativity & collaboration as core competence)

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Do we need to “unlearn?”

“The chief object of education is not to learn things, but to unlearn things.” G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton, British writer