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Smart Communities In Action
Jung, John G.
[HTML version] [pdf version]: John Jung's companion article available only electronically.
Smart Communities: Digitally-Inclined and Content-Rich
Jung, John G.
[HTML version] [pdf version]: John Jung has previously written about the increasing role of telecommunications in any community's economic development strategy. In this latest NTQ article, he looks at the state of the smart community today. He argues that merely deploying additional wire does not make the community smart. The successful smart communities are those that are able to use the technologies of a knowledge-based economy to develop, market, and supply new products and services that are demanded both by other knowledge-based economies and by the developing markets moving in that direction.
Telecommunications: The Seed, the Symbol, and the Focus
Jung, John G.
[HTML version] [pdf version]: Our Global Perspective columnist considers the role of telecommunications-intensive work centers in facilitating economic regeneration within a region or community. He suggests that there are 11 basic elements that warrant consideration in any community's economic development strategy.