Overview

The Information Age Community (ICA) concept is defined as that geographic area which is socio-economically oriented to a major metropolitan area.  The five-state Minneapolis-St Paul ICA’s dynamic border reflects the relative strength of competing metro areas with a boundary roughly defined by...
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Regional Monitor

THE REGIONAL INDEX STRUCTURE The world-wide scope of this process demands that it will necessarily evolve to meet the needs of other cultures, however, for this concept to be effective, the basic structure defined here must expand to meet these needs since proliferation of the concept merely continu...
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Community Alliance

IMPLEMENTATION Climate Change, urban congestion, the urban –rurlal divide, the budget deficit and so many more issues are seemingly impossible to resolve in today’s political environment. The Smart Region concept sees them all as variants of the same issue: the Community has atrophied and is no ...
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Regional Transit

The Regional Integration through Transit initiative® (RIT) has been developed to support the Tele-Commuter Resources (TCR) Distributed City Model and it becomes critical component of the Information Age Community® (IAC) Concept.  This model envisions the continued evolution of the Internet and it...
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OUTSIDE OF THE BOX

Observation One: When an issue persists, despite many attempts to resolve it, people will suggest that we need to think outside of the box.  The problem this creates is that when that effort creates a comprehensive solution, it too is out of the box.  No one supports it and the problem persists. Â...
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Applying Bill Gates to Community

Gates has identified 12 rules for corporate digital survival based upon the use of digital capabilities. TCR believes these are also applicable to Community.  The structure of this article is: The rules are based upon the book The Commentary is TCR’s description of how it can be applied to the Co...
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