Global Think Tank Recognizes MaRS

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a global think tank focused on the uses of information technology for economic development, announced the MaRS Centre as the winner of its 2006 Intelligent Building of the Year award at the annual Intelligent Community of the Year Awards in New York City.

ICF cited MaRS as a development that would feed innovation and economic progress for the community, leading the way in the digital age.  The MaRS Centre was selected among three finalists that included the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Ballantyne Village, Charlotte, North Carolina, which represented a North American sweep of the category.

The MaRS Centre is the first building of its kind to leverage emerging IP based technologies to offer a fully connected community for tenants located physically in the building and to a broader stakeholder community connected virtually over broadband networks.  The MaRS Collaboration Centre is the first venue of its kind to adopt a fully converged audiovisual infrastructure that allows anywhere/anytime access and control using a local or wide area IP network. Additionally, MaRS will anchor the rollout of a Discovery District-wide wireless network.

For more information on ICF visit:  www.intelligentcommunity.org

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