For Immediate Release
Jan. 20, 2011
Dublin, Ohio Named One of Top Seven International Intelligent Communities for Second Consecutive Year
The City of Dublin has earned Top Seven honors - for the second year in a row - in a New York-based think tank’s annual list of smart cities from around the globe.
The announcement was made last night by the Intelligent Community Forum at the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s annual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 2011 Top Seven Communities are: Chattanooga, Tenn.; Dublin, Ohio; Eindhoven, Netherlands; Issy-les-Moulineaux, France; Riverside, Calif.; Stratford, Ontario, Canada; and Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada.
“It is quite an honor to be named one of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities in the world,” said Dublin City Manager Marsha Grigsby. “The City of Dublin strives to ensure that its residents and corporate citizens have access to the global economy, and recognition like this validates those efforts. This award prominently displays the attributes of the City of Dublin, Ohio on an international stage.”
The Top Seven Intelligent Communities are selected through analysis of detailed data submitted by the Smart21 Communities, which were named in October 2010 at a ceremony hosted by Suwon, South Korea, the 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. The Top Seven are the seven top-scoring communities from among the Smart21 in the quantitative analysis conducted by an international academic team. The 2011 theme is "Health in the Intelligent Community."
In June 2011, one of the Top Seven will be named Intelligent Community of the Year at the Building the Broadband Economy summit, produced in association with the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
For more information
Contact: Nancy Richison at 614.579.2612 | nrichison@dublin.oh.us
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