TOP 7 CITIES• Chattanooga• Dublin, Ohio• Eindhoven, Netherlands• Issy-les-Moulineaux, France• Riverside, Calif.• Stratford, Canada• Windsor-Essex, CanadaSource: Intelligent Community Forum
Chattanooga vies today with six other cities worldwide for the so-called “smartest city” title given by a New York-based think tank.
With Chattanooga’s ultra-fast Internet connectivity seen as a key, Mayor Ron Littlefield leads a local delegation in New York City with hopes of picking up the top spot.
The Intelligent Community Forum, an economic and social development think tank, earlier picked Chattanooga and the other locations from a list of 21 cities it named last year.
Chris Daly, director of technology development and transfer at Chattanooga’s Enterprise Center, said landing on the Forum’s short list is a recognition of what the city has done and how far it has come.