The Intelligent Community

The Intelligent Community

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The Intelligent Community episodes

  • Leadership in Unconventional Times: Managing Drought in Intelligent Communities

    Continuing in our Leadership in Unconventional Times series, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla is joined by Dr. Peter Williams.

    Dr. Williams is Chair of ARISE-US, part of ARISE Global Network, the UN DRR's vehicle for public-private collaboration in disaster risk reduction. He was also the lead author of the UN City Disaster Resilience Scorecard, now used by over 330 cities globally, and a further Scorecard for the resilience of industrial and commercial buildings. He retired from IBM as a Distinguished Engineer in 2018.

    35 min
  • Leadership in Unconventional Times: Kyiv & the Digital Battlefront

    The City of Kyiv's IT Department has reconfigured its city apps to provide citizens with a range of services, including finding bomb shelters and medicines, to a quality of life despite the threat of bombardment and terror. In this episode, city leaders join together to discuss this extraordinary approach. Speakers for this episode include: Vera Bergengruen, Washington Correspondent at Time Magazine; Martin Männil, Chief Information Officer, City of Tallinn, Estonia; Moez Chaabouni, ICF Juror Chairman and former CIO of Columbus, Ohio; and Tyler Gooch, Director of Innovation & Technology, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

    51 min
  • How Broadband Access Unites and Divides Us

    The pandemic revealed the essential role of broadband today. It also exposed as never before the dire consequences of the digital divide and the explosive impact of social media in spreading misinformation, fear and outrage. Panelists discuss what the pandemic has taught them about making broadband access more equitable and managing its downsides.

    32 min
  • Lessons from Historical Conflicts that Help Build a Better Future
    Leaders of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and the Carter Center in Atlanta share lessons about how parties locked in conflicts can find a path to reconciliation and a new future.
    • Stacia George, M.A., Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center
    • Isha Khan, CEO, Canadian Museum of Human Rights
    • Lou Zacharilla, Co-Founder, Intelligent Community Forum (Moderator)
    57 min
  • Moment of Truth: She Smart Taoyuan

    Taoyuan has kicked off an exciting initiative "She smart Taoyuan", further in collaborating with gender perspective into city and policy design and celebrating what women have accomplished in this field. Learn more in this conversation with Director Karen Yu of the Taoyuan City Department of Information Technology.

    22 min
  • Is It Already 2031?
    A discussion on education, healthcare, and the idea of what a "community" will be in 2031 - and how these changes have been accelerated during the time of COVID-19. With guests Joost Helms, Director, Eindhoven International Project Office and Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Vice-President, Strategy & Innovation, George Brown College.
    36 min
  • Moment of Truth: Dana McDaniel and Greg Dunn of Dublin, Ohio, USA
    What do Intelligent Communities know that others do not? Intelligent Communities like Espoo (Finland), Dublin (Ohio, USA), Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Tallinn (Estonia) and the current Intelligent Community of the Year, Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) are no longer just "smart cities." They have gone at least one level higher. In our Moment of Truth podcast series, we ask them when they realized that they had gone from "smart city" to Intelligent Community, and what exactly it means to them. We also ask how they managed to get there.
    27 min

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In the official podcast from the Intelligent Community Forum, we speak with the movers and shakers in the intelligent community movement around the world. Hear how communities are embracing the 21st…