2. Online Guide
The Smart Communities Guide is an online resource
designed to help communities advance their progress in
becoming a Smart/Intelligent Community.
Features:
• Practical guide to creating Smart Communities -- the
single most important economic and social activity being
undertaken in the world today
• Measurement-based Indicators so all communities can
monitor their own success
• Links to solutions and people, from best-in-class
organizations

3. What is Different About This Guide?
• Indicators measure and map your evolution
• Steps to success are described
• Expertise is connected to Content
• Tools are linked
• Vendor-neutral advice is given
• Best Practices are networked
• Your Community develops it own plan

4. Indicators
• Why
– “Absolutely needed in the market. A roadmap
with Indicators and stepping stones doesn’t exist.”
• Graham Colclough, BSI contact
• Open, transparent, and inclusive
• Cover three levels:
– Leadership Guide, Management Framework, with
some Technical Standards

5. Benefits to Communities
• Community CFO’s can use “smart” to cut costs
• Business Developers get investment, which
follows “smart”
• Public officials get engaged citizens, sectors
• Sectors crystalize around new vision and plan
• Commerce gets super-speed access
– If Walmart and Target are in trouble, so are others

6. Intended Audience
• City governments: CFO, Eco. Dev. Officers,
Mayors, Councillors
• Social sector leaders
• Business solutions vendors
• Global cities looking for recognition
• Sector leaders