The Smart21 communities of 2010

In Dublin, the average resident is between 35 and 45 years of age and eighty percent have a university degree. Home to Fortune 500 companies including Wendy’s, Ashland, and Cardinal Health, Dublin (a 2008 and 2009 Smart21) is determined to maintain its edge in a hyper-competitive global economy. A strategic planning exercise led Dublin to install underground conduits to encourage fiber-optic deployment. This became DubLink, a public-private fiber network for business, government and schools, which spurred aggressive roll-out of e-government services from digital filing of taxes to government video channels...