John Jung

Kingston, Ontario has made the Intelligent Community Forum’s Top7 list for the third time, the only Canadian city on the 2026 list, joining communities in Brazil, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United States, Spain, and Taiwan.

One of the elements of the year-long process of bringing forward an annual list of Intelligent Communities is the physical evaluation of each of the Top7 Intelligent Communities. This is an important part of the selection of the Intelligent Community of the Year and is taken very seriously by the evaluators, the Jury and the communities being evaluated. It is important to physically validate each community’s application, make eye to eye contact with the authors of the submission and better...

The towns, cities, and regions of the Smart City and the Intelligent Community Movement As I stood at each one of the announcements this year of the Intelligent Community Awards program, I thought to myself, “What an extraordinary moment it is to stand at the intersection of innovation, inclusion, and global community-building”.The past year has shown us, once again, that the Intelligent Community movement is not merely an idea—it is a living, evolving force powered by cities and regions that...