Since 2000, the ICF has identified numerous local bodies all around the world for their success in the use of digital technologies for social and economic development. An international organisation, Alumni of Intelligent Community Forum, was created in 2009. Issy-les-Moulineaux is one of its founding members.

In 2011, for the 4th time in 10 years, Issy-les-Moulineaux was selected, alongside Eindhoven and Riverside, California as one of the seven intelligent communities in the world. Issy-les-Moulineaux was the only French city competing to become "Top Intelligent Community of the year 2011"! The nominations to the Top 7 Intelligent Communities 2011 were revealed during the annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, held on January the 19th in Honolulu, Hawaii. The selection is the result of a rigorous analytic method conducted by an international team of analysts from the academic, business and international organisation sectors.

The 2011 awards cycle concluded in New York City on June 3rd during ICF’s annual Building the Broadband Economy Summit, where the city of Eindhoven (the Netherlands) was named "Intelligent Community of the Year", succeeding last year's Top Community, Suwon (South Korea).

In March 2011,Robert Bell, co-founder and Executive Director of the Intelligent Community Forum, met the ICT actors in Issy-les-Moulineaux and discovered the actions undertaken in the field of new technologies.