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What are “Smart Communities”?
• “A smart community is a community that has made a conscious effort to use information technology to transform life and work within its region in significant and fundamental, rather than incremental ways” From: The World Foundation on Smart Communities, http://www.smartcommunities.org/about_faq.htm
• Smart communities are real places inhabited by real people (not just technology)
• A successful smart community can be built from the top down, or as a grassroots effort, but active involvement from every sector of the community is essential…
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Centre for Smart Community Innovation (CSCI)
Windsor-Essex Smart Community
What are “Smart Communities”?
• “A smart community is a community that has made a conscious effort to use information technology to transform life and work within its region in significant and fundamental, rather than incremental ways” From: The World Foundation on Smart Communities, http://www.smartcommunities.org/about_faq.htm
• Smart communities are real places inhabited by real people (not just technology)
• A successful smart community can be built from the top down, or as a grassroots effort, but active involvement from every sector of the community is essential…
The University of Windsor’s mission, a reason for being:
“Enabling people to make a better world through education, scholarship, research and engagement “
Smart (Intelligent Communities) are all about “engagement”
City of Windsor
County of Essex
Greater Essex County District School Board
St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology
University of Windsor
Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board
Windsor Regional Hospital
Teen Health
Youth and Teens Students Parents Teachers Community Members Community Groups Local Businesses Government Agencies Alumni Donors Practitioners Media Visitors School Boards
The University’s strategic priorities:
“Engage the community in partnerships that will strengthen the economy, quality of life, and well-being of the Windsor-Essex region “
ConnectingWindsor-Essex
@ the speed of life!©
“Connecting Windsor-Essex collaborates to provide new opportunities, well-being and connectedness to improve the quality of life in how we learn, work, play and invest.”
Key PointsGREETINGS 5
PARTICIPANTS 7
RESULTS 8
FINANCIAL SUMMARY 10
BUDGET OVERVIEW 11
MARKETING 12
TOP 7 CONTRIBUTORS 14
EMBRACING THE FUTURE 17
THE TEAM 19
I.T. keeps us informed
I.T. helps us take care of our community
I.T. helps us promote our strengths
I.T. helps us think local
W.E. Told Our Story!
W.E. Told Our Story!
Moving Forward Together
We challenge you to start asking:“Why not Windsor-Essex?”
Components of Success – The “Mix”
Smart in many ways . . .
– Broadband– Knowledge Workforce– Digital Inclusion– Innovation– Marketing & Advocacy– Health (2011)– The Educational Last Mile
(2010)
i-Canada: National Involvement• National organization: Government,
industry, academia
• Goal: Create 50 Intelligent Communities in Canada by 2014
• CWE Involvement:• Co-authored national community
assessment tool• To be piloted in Windsor-Essex
• Hosting first national conference November 16-17, 2011
• Representation at all levels of the organization
Intelligent Community InstitutePurpose:
• Expand the base of objective information about issues central to the development of Intelligent Communities in the Broadband Economy
• Connect knowledge about the development of Intelligent Communities to other aspects of community
• Enable Intelligent Communities to house institutes as a primary means to achieve goals and interests specific to a community or region where said Institute is hosted.
Intelligent Community InstituteProposed Institute:
The Institute would conduct research and delivery programming on socioeconomic benefits associated with the following areas:
• Advanced manufacturing innovation frameworks• Economic diversification• Effects of late career workplace displacement
and skills retraining• The role of information and communication
technologies in economic development• The role of collaboration in economic recovery
Intelligent Community SummitPurpose:
• Collaborate on common challenges, interests and opportunities to look for areas of mutual benefit.
• Projected Date: February 2012
Eindhoven, NL Windsor-Essex Tianjin, CN
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