I-NEC Partners

ICF — Intel­li­gent Com­mu­nity Forum

The Intel­li­gent Com­mu­nity Forum (ICF) is a non­profit think tank that focuses on the cre­ation of pros­per­ous local economies in the “broad­band econ­omy” of the 21st Cen­tury. From global net­works con­nect­ing busi­ness cen­ters to DSL link­ing homes, broad­band is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing busi­ness, gov­ern­ment, edu­ca­tion, work and lifestyles. By open­ing mar­kets, it both cre­ates new jobs and destroys exist­ing ones. By mak­ing pos­si­ble the export of ser­vices and skills, it puts work­ers into wage and skill com­pe­ti­tion with peo­ple around the globe. ICF con­ducts research, hosts events, pub­lishes newslet­ters and presents awards to help com­mu­ni­ties under­stand both the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges, and to pro­mote best prac­tices in eco­nomic and social development.

Con­tact infor­ma­tion
Con­tact per­son: Robert Bell
Con­tact info: Tele­phone: +1 646–291-6166,   Fax: +1 212–825-0075
Email: rbell[a-t]intelligentcommunity[d-o-t]org
Web­site: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org

GDCN

GDCN is an inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion estab­lished by Kakami­ga­hara and Chun­cheon Citym Korea in 2000. Since then we’ve been work­ing to share and exchange infor­ma­tion tech­nolo­gies such as multi-media, vir­tual real­ity, ani­ma­tion and bio-technology to meet the demands of our information-driven global community.

The devel­op­ment of infor­ma­tion is ever-expanding at a blind­ing pace and crosses inter­na­tional bound­aries. Each city must cope with rapidly chang­ing inter­na­tional con­di­tions and the global com­pe­ti­tion between cities regions and coun­tries, It is dif­fi­cult for cities to meet the needs of this chal­leng­ing cli­mate on their own.

One of the par­tic­i­pant cities holds the annual assem­bly every year in turn. We exchange up-to-date infor­ma­tion and dis­cus present prob­lems con­cern­ing infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy. We believe our mutual com­mu­ni­ca­tions enable us to cope with present prob­lems rapidly and effectively.

For more infor­ma­tion: www.gdcn.jp

FttH coun­cil

The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Coun­cil is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion estab­lished to help its mem­bers with plan­ning, mar­ket­ing, imple­ment­ing and man­ag­ing FTTH solu­tions. Coun­cil mem­ber­ship includes munic­i­pal­i­ties, util­i­ties, devel­op­ers, and tra­di­tional and non-traditional ser­vice providers, cre­at­ing a cohe­sive group to share knowl­edge and build indus­try con­sen­sus on key issues sur­round­ing fiber-to-the-home. The mis­sion of the Coun­cil is to edu­cate, pro­mote and accel­er­ate fiber-to-the-home and the result­ing qual­ity of life enhance­ments. Its objec­tives are to sup­ply a con­sis­tent and accu­rate view of FTTH, pro­mote FTTH mar­ket devel­op­ment, and to be rec­og­nized by the indus­try as the fiber-to-the-home resource.

The Fiber to the Home Coun­cil was estab­lished in July 2001 as the result of efforts lead by Alcatel-Lucent, Corn­ing Incor­po­rated and Opti­cal Solutions.

For more infor­ma­tion: www.ftthcouncil.org

Cisco

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a group of com­puter sci­en­tists from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity. Since the company’s incep­tion, Cisco engi­neers have been promi­nent in advanc­ing the devel­op­ment of IP– the basic lan­guage to com­mu­ni­cate over the Inter­net and in pri­vate networks.

For more infor­ma­tion: http://www.cisco.com/