Smart Cities

Future-Ready Together  

We define a smart city as a resilient, inclusive and collaboratively-built city that uses technology and data to better the quality of life for all residents. At Evergreen, through our initiative Future Cities Canada, we refer to our smart cities work as the Community Solutions Network.

The Community Solutions Network works with every type of community: big, mid-sized, Indigenous, rural and northern to build innovation capacity that supports greater connection, inclusion, and sustainability. As the project lead, Evergreen works with lead technical partner Open North to provide services at no-cost to participants.  

Since the fall of 2018, the Network offers guidance and collaborative learning opportunities through co-designed events and specialized advisory services. The Community Solutions Portal (you are here!) is the go-to digital hub for research and resources on topics such as: climate resilience, food security, sustainable energy, public engagement, housing affordability, and more.

What we do: 

• Facilitate learning via virtual, regional events that bring together municipalities, Indigenous communities, municipal networks, academics, and subject-matter experts. 
• Provide one-to-one advisory services and communities of practice in key areas of data & tech to build internal capacity. 
• Produce resources to support learning and build awareness of replicable solutions like research briefs & toolkits and the podcasts Future Fix and Face au Futur  
• Host Canada’s largest curated collection of smart city resources on the Community Solutions Portal. 
• Broker relationships between well-matched participants and partners. 

Learn more and join the Community Solutions Network