Sentence examples for smart communities from inspiring English sources

Some programs, like the federally financed Smart Communities, have shown promising results.

Smart homes are a starting point, but the next frontier will be smart communities, smart cities and smart regions.

Between 2008 and 2011, the Smart Communities participants registered a statistically significant 15 percentage-point increase in Internet use compared with that in other Chicago community areas.

Smart Communities, a $7 million effort in Chicago that was part of the administration's $7 billion investment, provided basic Internet training in English and Spanish for individuals and small businesses.

But today, thanks to a project called "Infoville", Valencia is on the way to becoming one of Europe's first "smart communities".The government of Valencia, working with Oracle, a software and consulting firm, conceived Infoville not just as a local government website, but as a portal that would combine a broad range of services from both the public and the private sector.

Working with IBM, Naestved has set up a single basic system to meet the needs of government employees, citizens and private firms alike.Neither Naestved nor Valencia have found it cheap to build their smart communities, but Oracle's Mr Rada says the costs have to be put into perspective.

The pilot has been so successful that similar services will soon be launched in 35 more Spanish cities.Another European city that set out to become a "smart community" was Naestved in Denmark.

But in this case, the preparations were extreme: nearly 10 years of calculated philanthropy and schmoozing across Harlem, an effort that Minneapolis-based Target has characterized as smart community relations but critics suggested was akin to bribery.

Back in his office in Cybercity, Chetty acknowledges the development's shortcomings and explains he has a plan in place – under the title "Smart Community" – to bring stakeholders together to pay for the creation of community spaces that would allow the various buildings' denizens to meet, socialise and form an actual community.

The findings add to knowledge communities research and make headway in smart community technology development by suggesting quantitative models for social processes in MMORPG communities.

The findings add to current research on MMORPG knowledge communities (e.g., Zhong 2011), and inform smart community research (De Oca Murillo Montes et al. 2014).