Smart Communities

The World Foundation for Smart Communities is a non-profit educational organization founded to promote the concept and facilitate the implementation of "smart communities" - communities using information technology as a catalyst for transforming life and work to meet the challenge of the new millennium.

"The 'economics of information' is not the same character as the 'economic of goods,' and the social relations created by the new networks of information are not the old social patterns -- or work relations -- of industrial society. We have here -- if this kind of society develops -- the foundations of a vastly different kind of social structure than we have previously know."

Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-industrial Society