Intelligent Communities
What is an Intelligent Community?
An Intelligent Community is a community that exemplifies best practices in broadband deployment and use, workforce development, innovation, digital inclusion, and advocacy, which offer lessons to regions, cities, towns, and villages around the world. These communities are not necessarily the most advanced technology centers, the most wired cities, or the fastest growing economies in the world. Instead, they are charting new paths to lasting prosperity for their citizens, businesses, and institutions.
The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF) recognizes Intelligent Communities through an annual awards program, where communities from across the globe are named as semi-finalists, and then as a Top 7. The Top 7 represent models of economic and social transformation in the 21st Century. These communities have made steady progress using digital innovations to improve the quality of their citizens' lives.
City of Prospect was named as a Top 7 Intelligent Community for 2022 by the ICF, and this recognition highlights the community's ongoing commitment to continuous improvement in models of economic, social, and cultural development in the digital age. As a semi-finalist for many years, the community has been recognized as a Smart 21 Community of the year in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.