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Past
Events
6th
Annual Cities of the Future Conference
Sacramento, California
December 7-8, 1999
California
in the Information Economy:
Building Smart and Sustainable Communities of the 21st Century
California
is the single largest producer of both hardware and software for
the new knowledge-based economy. California is also the home of
the "smart communities" concept.
Over
three years ago the California Institute for Smart Communities,
the research arm of the Foundation, was awarded a grant to research
the best applications of information technology and innovations
in governance and develop a template for "smart communities" throughout
the State of California. The "smart communities" concept is now
growing in essentiality and importance in California, nationally
and indeed worldwide. More recently, for example, Canada developed
its national strategy modeled after California. Appropriately entitled
"Smart Communities," Canada plans to fund the initiatives of thirty-two
cities over the next several years.
Other
cities, states and nation-states are also developing their own version
of the smart community concept, often times heavily borrowing from
California’s unique experience. But where is California as we enter
the new millennium? How successfully have we moved our own concept
forward? How successfully have we captured the interest and attention
of industry, local government and community leaders and empowered
them to reinvent their communities? And how well are we using technology
to transform the delivery of education, health care, business and
government itself to ensure our leadership in the global knowledge-based
economy?
These and other questions are the subject of the 6th Annual Cities
of the Future Conference "California in the Information Economy:
Building the Smart and Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century."
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