HONOLULU – For the second year running, no U.S. city has made the list of the world’s top Intelligent Communities of 2007, as selected by global think tank Intelligent Community Forum. The ICF met and announced this list as part of the 29th annual Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference here in Hawaii last week.
The PTC conference, which had 4,000 attendees, features information and communications technologies, public policy initiatives, business development strategies and industry forecasts from an Asia Pacific point of view.
The ICF selects the Intelligent Community list based on how advanced the communities are in deploying broadband, building a knowledge-based workforce, combining government and private-sector “digital inclusion,” fostering innovation and marketing economic development.
As announced by ICF chairman John Jung, the intelligent city finalists are:
• Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
• Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario-Quebec, Canada
• Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
• Tallinn, Estonia
• Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The Most Intelligent Community of the Year will be announced in May in New York. The 2006 winner was Taipei. The closest U.S. city to this list was Cleveland, which was a semifinalist last year.
Chinese telecom vendors, facing fierce domestic competition with dropping revenues and profit margins, are shifting their focus to international markets, said one Chinese analyst presenting at the conference.
According to Dongming.Zhang, research director of Beijing-based BDA China, China’s leading equipment provider, Huawei, is generating 65% of its annualized $10 billion revenue in overseas ventures.
With 44,000 employees, Huawei fights for its largest single share of China’s crowded domestic communications equipment market — reaching just 16%. Ericsson is next with 10%, followed by Motorola, Nortel, IBM, Alcatel, Siemens, Cisco and others dividing single digit slices of the market.
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U.S. cities don't make the intelligence cutBy Anonymous on January 24, 2007, 10:27 pmI am disappointed that despite both having 2 finalist cities, nothing was said about the UK nor Canada. China only competes because of their size, not their...
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No Intelligent US City?By George Brown on January 24, 2007, 10:44 pmNever heard of Cambridge, Mass? On one end of Mass Ave is Harvard. On the other MIT. You go around the US and you find plenty of other examples. Ann Arbor, Palo...
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JustifiedBy Anonymous on January 25, 2007, 12:49 amAs a technology related survey, I feel that it's justified - given that the US thinks that Vista creating $15.5 billion worth of "related products and services"...
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You Must Be KiddingBy patientXero on January 25, 2007, 1:00 am"For the second year running, no U.S. city has made the list of the world’s top Intelligent Communities of 2007. . ." And I wonder why? Does anyone else see...
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not really surprisingBy Anonymous on January 25, 2007, 1:00 amnot really surprising considering the level of US universities vs. rest of the world.
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MIT, Harvard, Stanford'sBy Anonymous on January 25, 2007, 1:02 amMIT, Harvard, Stanford's level is way under most (if not all) European and Asian universities, and the gap is getting bigger every year.
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