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The Intelligent Community Forum is a think tank that studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community.  Whether in industrialized or developing nations, communities are challenged to create prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where jobs, investment and knowledge increasingly depend on advances in communications.  For the 21st Century community, connectivity is a double-edge sword: threatening established ways of life on the one hand, and offering powerful new tools to build prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economies on the other.  ICF seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the Broadband Economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth.

The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between two of the UK's most prominent centres of research - the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields, including: education, sociology, culture and media, semiotics, computational intelligence, information management, personalisation, semantic web ubiquitous technologies. This means that issues can be tackled from many different perspectives, and this is reflected in our mission, to Understand the place of digital technologies and media in our cultural, social and educational relationships with knowledge - finding, acquiring, creating, and sharing it; Design, build and evaluate systems, processes and interfaces that enhance these relationships; and Examine critically the assumptions about knowledge and learning that underlie the increasingly wide range of applications of digital technologies.