Agustin Argelich's presentation at Abat Oliba University in Barcelona about the 5+1 indicators of the methodology of the think tank Intelligent Community Forum to build prosperous societies. Creative ideas to build prosperous, innovative, and resilient societies. 6 indicators: Technology, talent, innovation, sustainability, social awareness, continuous improvement, equity, leadership. Watch the video of the event at: https://youtu.be/sye_pPsbm50

1. Intelligent Community Forum

2. Intelligent Community concept
Intelligent Community is much more than a Smart City
Smart City projects make cities work better.
Intelligent Communities are different. They seek to make better cities:
places large and small, urban and rural, where citizens and employers
thrive and prosper in the broadband economy.
What is really important is to build a much better future, a much better
community.
People are at the heart of a holistic approach to creating more livable
communities, enabled by technology

3. Think Tank
Global Network – ICFF
Member Association
Institutes
ICF Nations
Introduction to the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)
#BETTERFUTURE @Newcommunities @aargelich

4. Network
Of more than 190
cities, metro areas
and counties, with
populations from
10,000 to 12 million,
pursuing economic,
social and cultural
growth together.
Advisors
Bringing a new
approach to
economic, social and
cultural growth to
communities facing
the immense
disruptions of the
digital age.

5. Delivering services to communities
International Awards
Practical Education
Benchmarking
Conferences and Content
Analytics
Consulting
Community
Accelerator

6. Unpredictable & Chaotic World
• Demography deep changes.
• Covid
• New Technologies:
• Geostrategic issues: Ukraine war – Taiwan
• Digital transformation – Broadband economy
• Electrical mobility
• Carbon capture
• New generation of nuclear plans
• Water treatment
How to build an Intelligent Community
in this situation?

7. Communities can let
change happen to them
or they can engage with it
and gain the advantages

8. Intelligent Community Methodology
unofficial version

9. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Telecom
Seaport - Airport
Road - Trains
Water
Energy
5G - FTTH
More traffic
Connectivity with Europe
Mediterranean Whether
Dependency

10. Only 10 countries in the world have already achieved 95% fiber coverage (“Passed”)
Spain: Leader In Fiber Optic To Homes In Europe
Success Key factors
• Low cost of deployment
• Good regulation: MARCO: Any carrier can use tubes and
poles from old cupper networks. Avoiding overbuilding
• Small local companies
• Government subsidiaries : PEBA
Note: Passed (available) in not the same than used (subscribed)
• Remote work
• E-health – Telemediciene
• e-learning
Critical applications
Fiber networks are the nervous system of the country
Key for the future and key to survive crisis
5% means 4M homes without fiber in
Spain low density rural areas

11. Submarine Cables and Data Centers
EC wants and independent digital Europe

12. Energy Dependency
Europe life is depending on a constant energy
transfusion from abroad.

13. Permanent
Energy
Transfusion
Gas
Oil
U235
Gas
Oil
Uranium
Russia, USA.
Middle East, Africa
Russia, Kazajastan
Europe life is depending on a constant
energy transfusion from abroad.
Risky
Business
Is a good practice to renounce to
our own natural resources?

14. The Electrical Energy Challenge
01
02
03
Energy demanded
=
energy delivered
We don’t know how to storage big
amounts of electrical energy.
No storage
Energy production should be
predictable
Manageability

15. Enrichment
Plant
El Retorjillo
Enrich
Nuclear plants
Produce
Recycle
Uranium mines in
Salamanca
Extract
Spain Energy Independency is possible if ……
New generation depleted
uranium plants
Cemetery
We choose to use our natural resources
https://www.elliberal.cat/2021/12/02/independencia-energetica
November 26, 2021
January 13, 2016
Energy National Plan 1978

16. Everything is possible with enough energy
1
2
3
4
5
6
Water
Agriculture
Heating
Air-conditioning
Industry
Transport
TELECOM
HVAC

17. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Education
Talent

18. Binh
Duong
June 22
Vietnam

19. The Invisible
Transforming
Influence of
Education
Picture: Confucius Temple
Nanjing - Jiangsu province (China)
September 2019

20. https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/nominations
https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/2019_theme_infinite_learning
2019
INFINITE LEARNING
#BETTERFUTURE
@Newcommunities
@aargelich

21. Is your community able to create,
maintain, and attract talent?

22. Education
Create Talent is the
best long-term strategy
#BETTERTHANEVER
#INFINITELEARNING
#DIGITALTRANSFORMATION
@Newcommunities
@aargelich
Mathematics and
Languages

23. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Education
Talent
Innovation

24. Analog technology has already died, you cannot maintain it.
New digital solutions, new functionalities, soft-based,
continuous improvement, simpler, more efficient.
Analog Blackout

25. Product
Obsolescence
Skill
Obsolescence

26. Be efficient, my friend
A person, machine, or
organization that is efficient
does a job well and
successfully, without wasting
time or energy.
Collins Cobuild Essential English Dictionary

27. The people who are crazy
enough to think they can
change the world are the
ones who do

28. Your competitors will do it
If you don’t innovate …..

29. Digital Transformation - 7 critical applications
01 e-government
Avoid and simplify bureaucracy
03 e-commerce
05 Remote work
Avoid unnecessary mobility
07 Mobility
Simplify mobility. Avoid traffic
congestion
02
04
06
e-health
Chronic patients monitoring
e-learning
Infinite learning
Industry 4.0
IoT, Smart Ciy

30. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Education
Talent
Innovation
Sustainability
Legacy

31. “An Intelligent Community is the best place to
live, work, start a business, raise a family and
pass their heritage to the next generation”
Robert Bell, ICF co-founder
Be the key link, my friend

32. Barcelona a worldwide
reference in Architecture
and urbanism

34. Is there no other solution for the lack of green areas?

35. Ildefonso Cerda original urban plan

36. Back to basic
Back to original Ildefonso Cerda urban plan
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/eixample/e
s/el-distrito-y-sus-barrios/la-dreta-de-
leixample/interiores-de-manzana

37. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Education
Talent
Innovation
Sustainability
Legacy
Equality

39. 5 + 1 ICF Indicators
Infrastructures
Leadership
Good Governance
Education
Talent
Innovation
Sustainability
Legacy
Equality
Inclusion

40. It’s unlikely that “heroism”
will be defined by fighting
wars and capturing real
state, or by taking political
risk. Rather, a new heroism
will come from those who
restore heritages and build
great places for people to
live
Lou Zacharilla
ICF Co-Founder
@Newcommunities @aargelich

41. 33 years ago
leaders
destroyed
walls and built
bridges.
Nowadays
some are
doing the
opposite
• Mobility is the “fall of the
wall” in communications
• High capacity network
ports are available
everywhere
• No more walls in any
organization/ in any
community

42. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO
IMPLEMENT CHANGE?
IT’S EASIER TO DO NOTHING
“Humans only change when the
actually realize the consequences
of not doing it”

43. • Mobility is the “fall of the
wall” in communications
BE OPEN- MINDED,
MY FRIEND
COLUMBUS
.. was looking for a different
route to India…
.. was trying to optimize an
established procedure…
.. thought globally…
.. was successful because he
was open-minded…
Leadership Skills for the digital
era (I)
1

44. .. As Gaudí imagined
Barcelona’s new Basilica,…
.. Imagine the future.
THE POWER OF
IMAGINATION
GAUDI
Leadership Skills for the digital
era (II)
2

45. WILLIGNESS TO
INNOVATE
JOHN F.
KENNEDY
• We are not saying “if we can”,
of course we do. We are now
talking about: “if we want to”.
We choose to go to the moon
• Are you still thinking
technology is a “commodity”,
or do you believe in a better
future thanks to the right use of
technology?
• Are you still thinking that IT is
only a technical issue?
Leadership Skills for the
digital era (III)
3

46. HOW DO YOU FEEL?
ALIGNED OR ALIENATED?
Leadership is to help others
understand why it is clever to be
aligned with project objectives
Leadership Skills for the digital era (IV)
4

47. ATTITUDES & APTITUDES
Leadership is to help others to
choose the right attitude
You not only can, YOU MUST
choose your attitude
Leadership Skills for the digital era (V)
5

48. SOCIAL
AND
CULTURAL
GROWTH
ECONOMIC
GROWTH
Connect
Work
Innovate Engage
Include
Sustain
M

49. Connect
Work
Innovate
• Broadband is the new essential utility
• Key strategy is reducing private-sector risk
• Underserved communities have options for
changing the competitive situation
• Help students climb rungs on an educational
ladder to opportunity
• Connect the providers and reduce barriers
• Engage employers at every level
• Innovation produces 80% of economic growth
• Your local economy can be an innovation system
• Engage businesses, educators, nonprofits in
coordinated strategy

50. • Transforming “educating the public” into
cooperative learning with digital tools
• Tapping the creativity and passion of residents,
businesses and nonprofits
• Overcoming fears and misconceptions
Engage
• Improving digital access for the underserved
• Training in digital literacy and skills
• Providing motivation to the unconnected to
adopt digital services
Include
• Engaging people in improving local quality of life
• Contributing to climate change goals
• Attracting and creating growth companies in
sustainability
Sustain

51. TAIWAN
A land of
Intelligent
Communities

52. Concepto España Taiwan
Población 47M 24M
Densidad
hab./km² 93,09 640
Renta per
cápita US$ 43.007 55.078
Competitividad 36 11
Muertos Covid
por Millón Hab. 2.430 566
❖ Zona muy sísmica
❖ Tifones frecuentes
❖ Muy montañoso.
❖ Aislado diplomáticamente
❖ Pocas riquezas naturales
❖ Paisaje espectacular
❖ Estrechas relaciones con
China continental. Un
taiwanés tiene derecho a
DNI chino
❖ No son comunistas.
❖ Muchas inversiones en China
❖ 100’s de ciudadanos en
Wuhan

53. February 10, 2020
✓ Changhua County
✓ Chiayi City
✓ Hsinchu City
✓ Hsinchu County
✓ Kaohsiung City
✓ Tainan City
✓ Taipei
✓ Taitung County
✓ Taoyuan City
✓ Yilan County
✓ Keelung City
✓ Kinmen County
✓ Matsu
✓ New Taipei City
✓ Taichung City
15 of 22 Taiwan districts
has been awarded by ICF
https://www.elliberal.cat/2022/08/10/opinion-taiwan-el-triunfo-de-la-inteligencia/

54. People have lived along the Tamsui River in what is now
New Taipei City (NTC) for 5,000 years, yet the city is less
than 20 years old. It was created in 2010 from the county
surrounding Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei, and its founding
Mayor Eric Chu set out to transform a loose collection of
suburban cities and rural land into a unified metropolis.
New Taipei City
TOP1 2022
Intelligent Community of the Year 2022
Top7 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2022
Smart21 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2022
✓ The Future is
Broadband
✓ Knowledge
Drives Growth
✓ New and
Renewed
Economy

55. Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing
Company
55% World Market share
The most advanced
technology

56. Barcelona
The challenge of maintaining
the Olympic spirit alive
Agustin Argelich
Principal Consultant Argelich Networks
ICF International Jury
IX Paralympic Games Barcelona’92 Technology Director
Taoyuan, February 2020
@aargelich

57. https://www.elliberal.cat/2021/10/16/opinion-culminar-la-sagrada-familia-el-reto-que-barcelona-precisa-hoy/
Culminar la Sagrada Familia, el reto que Barcelona precisa hoy
La Sagrada Familia no es solo un símbolo del cristianismo, que indiscutiblemente lo es, sino que también lo es de
los valores sólidos sobre los que se sustenta la ciudad de Barcelona

58. Barcelona hill
Tibi omnia dabo
(Tibidabo)

59. John G. Jung, Chairman and Co-Founder
Intelligent Community Forum
jjung@intelligentcommunity.org
www.intelligentcommunity.org
www.icf-canada.com
@JohnGJung1
“Muchas ciudades del
mundo querrían tener
los problemas de
Barcelona”
“En India quieren crear
cien ciudades
inteligentes. En China,
doscientas”
#BETTERFUTURE @Newcommunities @aargelich
https://argelich.com/noticias/f/entrevista-a-john-jung-cofundador-intelligent-community-forum

60. BETTER THAN EVER
✓ The best technology
✓ The best communication between
human
✓ A great knowledge of each other
The World is imperfect, but we
have a lot of tools to improve it

61. Get Involved
Take an Online Course
Nominations open November 21, and
there is no cost to submit a nomination.
The deadline is 31 January to be eligible
for the 2023 Awards Program.
As a special offer, we are offering all
attendees of this event to take the new
INCLUDE course at no cost – a $99 value.
To sign up for the course or nominate a
community, email Matthew Owen at
Nominate your Community
mowen@intelligentcommunity.org or anabel@argelich.com

62. Upcoming ICF Webinar
As companies bow to reality and start reorganizing work processes,
that percentage is likely to rise. The emerging trend raises a big
question for economic developers, city managers, Council members
and Mayors.
If the link between where people live and where they work keeps
stretching, local governments can’t approach the traditional goal of
attracting employers the same way.
The question decision-makers need to ask themselves now is, “if
people can live anywhere, why would it be here?”
Register now at www.intelligentcommunity.org
If They Can Live Anywhere,
Why Would it Be Here?

63. Upcoming ICF Event
Each year, the ICF names the world’s most
Intelligent Community. This process starts
with the announcement of the Smart21
Communities of the Year and semi-finalists
for the awards.
In 2023, the ICF Smart21 Announcement will be part of a virtual
conference taking place 22-23 February, 2023. Program and
Registration information will be released in the coming weeks.
Learn more about the Awards at intelligentcommunity.org/awards
Smart21 Announcement

64. Upcoming ICF Event
2023 ICF Summit
25-26 October 2023 in New York City
More information coming soon.
intelligentcommunity.org/events

66. Agustin Argelich
Digital Technologies International Consultant
Leadership & Innovation professor
Author & Speaker
Member Think Tank Intelligent Community Forum
aac@argelich.com
www.argelich.com
@aargelich
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustinargelich/
About Me
▪ Born in Barcelona in 1963.
▪ Telecom Engineer by Ramon Llull University and Catalonia Polytechnical
University (Barcelona)
▪ Professor of leadership at Ingenio School (Lleida University).
▪ Spanish Air Force Lieutenant.
▪ Author of Analyze, Act, Advance, a book about how to build a virtuous cycle of
hope, innovation, renewal, and continuous improvement.
▪ Principal consultant of Argelich Networks, an independent digital technology
and management consultancy boutique.
▪ For 30 years, I have been leading significant digital technology projects for
business and for public entities. Expert in Unified Communications and
Collaboration
▪ Technological Director of the IX Paralympic Games Barcelona’92
▪ Member of the Society of Communications Technologies Consultants
International. I served as board member for 8 years, 7 as Chairman International
Affairs Committee and 2 as Vice President.
▪ Member Think Tank Intelligent Community Forum and of its international jury
awarding Intelligent Community of the year.
▪ Past member Digital economy committee Circulo de Economia.
▪ Before Olympics, I worked as Telecom Manager in Asco Nuclear Power Plant
▪ I am active member of significant professional and civil society associations.
▪ Married with Mª Eugenia for 34 years, we are parents of 2 daughters and 4 sons
and grandparents of a grandaugther.
www.sctcconsultants.org
www.intelligentcommunity.org

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+ Información y lecturas recomendadas
❖ Webs y post
❖ Canal Youtube: youtube.com/c/AgustinArgelich15
❖ Digital Economy, Infinite learning, Nanjing (China) : https://youtu.be/Y4ZP1yTZLBk
❖ Presentación think tank Intelligent Community Forum en Barcelona con participación del ex-ministro
Joan Majo https://argelich.com/noticias/f/presentaci%C3%B3n-en-espa%C3%B1a-del-think-tank-
intelligent-community-forum
❖ From Smart Cities to Intelligent Communities, Ulanbaq Mongolia interior, China.
https://argelich.com/noticias/f/ulanqab-%E2%80%93-inner-mongolia-%E2%80%93-digital-china-
construction-development
❖ Data Driven Cities Pune, India https://argelich.com/noticias/f/data-diven-cities-en-india
❖ Conferencia en Taoyuan, Taiwan en febrero 2020 https://argelich.com/noticias/f/conferencia-de-
agustin-argelich-en-taoyuan-en-el-congreso-de-icf
❖ Conferencia en Binh Buong, afueras de Saigon, Vietnam en junio 2022
https://argelich.com/noticias/f/conferencia-transformaci%C3%B3n-digital-en-vietnam
❖ ICF TOP7 en Taoyuan
http://www.argelich.com/participacion-en-2020-icf-top7-global-cities-announcement/
❖ Web ICF: https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/
❖ Relación artículos publicados en prensa: https://argelich.com/noticias/f/si-me-callo-exploto---
art%C3%ADculos-opini%C3%B3n
❖ Libros:
❖ El hombre en busca de sentido, Dr. Vicktor Frankl
❖ Las culturas fracasadas: El talento y la estupidez de las sociedades, Juan Antonio Marina
❖ Por qué fracasan los países, Daron Acemoğlu y James A. Robinson
❖ Analizar Actuar Avanzar, Agustin Argelich Casals
• Google books: http://bit.ly/2F5daZD
• Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UuSkGp
• English versión: http://bit.ly/2GKxMrG

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Agustin Argelich
www.argelich.com
www.sctcconsultants.org
www.intelligentcommunity.org
www.linkedin.com/in/agustinargelich
Digital Technologies International
Consultant
Leadership & Innovation professor
Author & Speaker

69. #BETTERFUTURE @Newcommunities @aargelich
THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY MOVEMENT
THANK YOU FOR COMING
Agustín Argelich
ARGELICH NETWORKS
Principal Consultant
Tel. (+34) 610 59 50 50
mailto:aac@argelich.com
www.argelich.com
es.linkedin.com/in/agustinargelich/
@aargelich