1. D r. Sor i n Cohn
1

2. 1. Intelligent Communities
Shanghai 1990 Framework
2. i-Canada Program
3. i-Canada Assessment Tools
Sony – Did You Know? – 2010 Shareholders Video
Build Canada Shanghai 2008
as a Competitive Innovation Nation
Community by Community
Using
Broadband Communications and Intelligent
Services
Anytime Anywhere
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3. A Community May
Be: A Community Must
 a Village Have:
 a Town  Distinct Identity with history & future
 A Municipal District  Ability to Act as an Entity
 a City  Core Elements Cooperating for the
 a Metropolis (City Good of the Whole
Conglomerate)  Economic and Social Prosperity Goals
 a Region  Acceptance and Recognition as such
 a Country
Communities must adapt to
changing economical and social
environments in their
competition for success
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4.  Broadband Connectivity
 New essential utility vital for economic
growth
 Knowledge Workforce
 Creating economic value through processing
& use of information
 Digital Inclusion
 Bridging the gaps and avoiding social rifts
 Innovation
 Capacity for economic & social renewal in
businesses and citizen services
 Marketing & Advocacy
 Building the vision and communicating the
competitive values of the community
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5. South All residents and businesses to …with two different
Korea have 1 Gigabit per second Canadian perspectives:
(Gbps) access by 2012
“By the end of 2015, the CRTC expects
Singapore To connect 95% of homes and
all Canadians to have access to
businesses to 1 Gbps fibre optic broadband speeds of at least 5
access by 2012 megabits per second (Mbps) for
Sweden 40% of households and downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads.”
(CRTC News Release, May 3, 2011)
businesses to have access to 100
Mbps by 2015 and 90% by 2020
Denmark 100% of households and “Canada needs an unprecedented level of
collaboration across governments, our
businesses to have access to 100
educational system, and the private sector to
Mbps by 2020 reach a moonshot goal for Canada as a
Australia 93% of homes, schools and digital society — where anyone can do
businesses to have access to 100 anything online from anywhere, anytime, at
a reasonable and appropriate cost by 2017.”
Mbps by 2021. Source: OECD
(Canada 3.0 Conference, May 2011)
United 100 Million households to have
States 100 Mbps access by 2020
MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND
INNOVATION 5

6. EORN
Eastern OTTIX
Agilis
Ontario Ottawa
Greater Sudbury
Utilities
Lakeland
Muskoka
SCAN
Comcentric Simcoe
SW Ontario
TORIX
Toronto
Gov’t or Co-op
LARG*net
London MUSH Network
Internet Exchange
MINISTRY OF
Niagara Regional ECONOMIC
ORION Service
WEDnet Draft for Discussion BB Network DEVELOPMENT6
Windsor Rhyzome WREPnet AND
Stratford Kitchener-Waterloo INNOVATION
6 NOTE: Coverage ovals
are diagrammatic only.

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8. Innovation is defined as activities that take ideas and
convert them into products or services of
commercial and/or social value.
Council Approved
Direction
September 2011
Slide 8
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9.  Competitiveness Issue
 Business Retention & Expansion
 Cost of doing business
 Availability/Accessibility, collaboration access
 Critical Support Research
 Health / Health ICT, Post-secondary research
 Commercialization
 Need for an N6 Approach – sustainability
“Innovation Needs A Backbone!”
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10.  36,000 jobs created in Canada in 2012 -> cloud computing – infrastructure
dependent (Microsoft/IDC)
 Each time country doubles broadband speed, economic output increased
by 0.3% (Ericsson, Chalmers, Little, 2012)
 The inter-states of the 21st century
 New Brunswick: the Millionaire Ecosystem
Slide 10
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11.  Understanding where we are
 Beyond technical gap analyses
 Local and N6 Perspectives
 Mobilizing stakeholder groups
 Engaging communities
 Exploring options
 Developing sustainable business case
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12. Life: Live, Learn, Work, Play
LIFE
Solutions: Health, Education, Government, Safety,
Community, Arts, Commerce, Traffic, Environment
Collaboration Ecosystem: Innovation, Creativity,
SOLUTIONS
Community Animation, Facilitation, Social Networks
Infrastructure: Communications, Roads
COLLABORATION Rail, Transit, Water, Energy, Waste
ECOSYSTEM
Place: Buildings, Parks, Waterfronts
INVESTMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
HUMAN CAPITAL
MARKETING +Leadershi
PLACE GLOBALIZATION p
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13. i- CAT = a framework to undertake consistent and
comparative assessment of community status and
performance progress
 Monitoring Tool  enables community leaders to
understand and monitor the community’s performance
 Retrospective  helps in assessing values and progress of programs
 Prospective  helps in devising new initiatives and programs
 Competitive Tool  allows a competitive analysis against
target communities
 Democracy Tool  enables & empowers community to active
participation
 Transparency  helps in making community programs and its progress
transparent to its citizens
 Accountability  : enables better accountability
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14. Focus on Critical Aspects of what an i-Community Is & Needs
 Community Involvement
 Processes
 Infrastructure
 Financing
 Community Services
 Competitive Attributes
Provide Map with Visual Analytics
 At-a-glance competitive assessment
 Critical priority dimensions for assessment
 Evolving performance targets
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15. Living
Living
p. 15
Play & Culture
Play & Culture
Working
Working
Life
Learning
Safety & Health
Safety & Health
Social Cohesion
Social Cohesion
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e-Arts
e-Arts
e-Education
Solutions
e-Health
e-Health
e-Business.
e-Business.
s
zen
e-Community
e-Community
Citi
e-Government
e-Government
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Factors (over 360)
Dimensions (76)
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Domains (5)
Know. Workforce
Know. Workforce
Areas (26)
Indicators (over
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Innovation
Innovation
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Involvement
Involvement
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Infrastructu
Mobile
Broadband
Broadband
Busi
re
Comm. Assets
Comm. Assets
Finance
Finance
Transport
Urbanism
Urbanism
Place
Environment
Environment
Governance
Governance

16. Tool Purpose Complexity & Usage
 Upper layer of areas investigation
Decision tool for
Introductory  Done by Community Leader  Mayor/CIO
community leadership
 About 100 questions  Approx 2 hrs
Tool for determining  Investigates just the Collaboration Domain
Collaboration
community involvement  Done by i-Canada with staff support
Specific
and culture of  About 350 questions  Days to weeks
collaboration
Tool for getting quick
 Specific Community Perspective
Directed “Lite” community perspectives
 Undertaken by i-Canada & community section
Assessment from city officials,
 About 600 questions  Several weeks
businesses or citizens
Planning and Operational  Complete investigation – multiple perspectives
Complete
Tool for concerted action  Done by i-Canada & all community sections
Assessment
by entire community  About 1200 questions  2- 4 months
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17. Living
Living
p. 17
Play & Culture
Play & Culture
Working
Working
Life
Learning
Safety & Health
Safety & Health
Social Cohesion
Social Cohesion
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e-Arts
e-Arts
e-Education
Solutions
e-Health
e-Health
s
zen
e-Business.
e-Business.
Citi
e-Community
e-Community
e-Government
e-Government
Domains (5)
Staff
Know. Workforce
Know. Workforce Perspectives
Areas (26)
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Finance
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Transport
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Urbanism
Place
Environment
Environment
Governance
Governance

18. L i fe
Example of progressing
W or k i ng
intelligent community
Safety & H eal th
P l ay & Cul tur e
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19. E LF
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20. R SE L F
A SSE SS YOU
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21. R SE L F
A SSE SS YOU
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22. Develop XY Z as a competitive community
 What is our Status: Enable XYZ leadership to
understand situation and plan ahead
 Retrospectively:
Retrospectively Assess achievements to date
 Prospectively: Devise new initiatives and programs
 Benchmarking:
Benchmarking How competitive are we?
 Engaging:
Engaging Attracts & empowers community to active
participation
 With transparency: Make community programs and its progress
transparent to its citizens
 With accountability: : Ensure good accountability
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23.  Date 0: Contract Agreement
 Date 1: Planning Session (30 April May 4)
 Date 2 (Date 1+ 3-4 days): On-line survey(s) for Basic i-CAT assessment available to
selected representatives (May 3 May 8- if lists of reps available)
 A specific survey instrument (on-line address) will be provided for each
class of representatives.
 Date 3 (Date 2 + 1 week): End Assessment Undertaking (May 11 May 15 – if responses
provided)
 Selected representatives provide responses to Basic i-CAT survey tool
 BD COHNsulting analyzes responses and prepare Assessment Map Visuals
 Date 4 (Date 3+ 1 week): Direct Client Presentation (May 18 – if…)
(and Decision on Follow-through Optional Items)
Optional + P r esentati on at M ay 23-24 Confer ence
 Date 5 (Date 4+ 3-4 days): Assessment Analysis Webinar Session
 Presentation on community assessment results
 Date 6 (Date 5+ 1-2 weeks): Planning Session for Phase 2
 Discussion and interpretation of results with action items and planning of
Phase 2 follow-up work
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Innovation
require significant improvement forward effective
e-BUSINESS,
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25. iCanada, IBM, Waterloo, Stratford, INGDirect, Toronto Waterfront, Ministry of
Economic Development and Innovation, IT World Canada, CIRILab, ORION,
ventureLAB, CANARIE, P3Canada, Windsor, Tillsonburg
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26.  Take the online survey – URL to be distributed by e-mail
 You do not need a technology background to do the survey
 Remember the survey is a subjective assessment – it is measuring your
perceptions of the issues, in your role with the Regional Municipality of
York
 Total time to complete the survey: 1 – 2 hrs.; can stop and save at any
point, resume later
Complete the surveys by May 17
Thank you for your interest and participation!
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