Metropolis News • General Secretariat
Number 2 • 2012
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The Metropolis Initiatives kick off Take the Initiative!
Metropolis Initiatives:
http://www.metropolis.org/initiatives
The Metropolis Initiatives launched in
2012 constitute the main lynchpin of
the new Metropolis Action Plan to foster specific projects and services for
cities in conjunction with institutions
and companies.
The Metropolis Board of Directors
meeting held on 26 November 2011
in Porto Alegre approved, within the
framework of the 2012-2014 Action
Plan, eight Initiatives for the year 2012.
With the Initiatives, Metropolis seeks
to consolidate network-based management of its activities, more targeted
at projects and oriented towards results and more open to partnerships
and external funding.
The approved Initiatives are as follows:
www.facebook.com/metropolis.org
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“Agile Cities for a New Age of Accessibility, Efficiency and Growth” by the
international organisations Living Labs
Global, Citymart.com and The Climate
Group.
“Comparative Study on Metropolitan
Governance” by the State of São Paulo.
“Concrete actions taken by metropolises to mitigate, anticipate and adapt
to climate change” by the Île-de-France Region and the city of Porto Alegre.
“Integrated Strategic Planning and
Public-Private Partnerships” by Melbourne in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact Cities
Programme (UNGCCP).
“Integrated Urban Governance – Successful Policy Transfer” by the city of
Berlin in collaboration with theHumboldt-Viadrina School of Governance
(HVSoG).
“Mentoring on Upgrading Informal
Settlements” by the cities of Durban
and São Paulo as well as United Cities
and Local Governments (UCLG).
“Promotion and Development of the
Barcelona Innovation Center” by Barcelona City Council and the company
CISCO.
“Transferring Knowledge and Cooperating in Culture, Education and City”
by the Kreanta Foundation.
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Metropolis Initiative “Agile Cities” at the Rio Summit on Service Innovation in Cities
Living Labs Global, together with the Cities of Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona, Oracle and The Climate Group will
organize the Rio Summit on Service Innovation in Cities on
May 2 and 3, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro. Metropolis is an
event partner at the Rio Summit as part of the Initiative Agile
Cities for a New Age of Accessibility, Efficiency and Growth,
a joint effort to meet global challenges through technology
and innovation and to support cities in answering questions
on how new technologies can be used effectively to meet
climate, urban service, social and economic objectives.
The Summit is an unparalleled opportunity for Metropolis
members and partners to have a first taste of CityMart.com
which will become the platform for the Agile Cities initiative
by linking cities with solutions available in the global market.
It will be also an opportunity to interact and discuss with
an international audience consisting of public leaders from
leading global cities, entrepreneurs and experts active in
meeting major global challenges through technology and
innovative services.
On May 2, Mayors and key city leaders will take the podium to offer four City Dialogues and present the Living
Labs Global Award. The 21 winning projects come from a
selection of 550 solutions that were submitted to the online
platform www.citymart.com. Private and public companies,
non-governmental organisations and research centres from
50 countries participated in the Award this year.
On May 3, 250 delegates will join a full-day of matchmaking
activities to turn local challenges into global opportunities
through Thematic Sessions, Elevator Pitches, Networking
Breaks, Exhibition and Visioning Workshops.The objective
is to connect innovative cities with companies that deliver
the innovative solutions for our future societies.
On May 4, participants will have the opportunity to visit
some of the ground-breaking urban projects in Rio de Janeiro including the Centres for Digital Inclusion that have
trained more than 1,5 Million impoverished people to become technology entrepreneurs.
For more information please visit http://llga.org/about.php
and if you are interested to attend contact:
Rosa Panadès
by Living Labs Global
Email address: r.panades@livinglabs-global.com
Tel: +34 93 1855110.
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Take the Initiative! First meeting of the Metropolis
Initiative on Metropolitan Governance
The first meeting of the Comparative Study on Metropolitan
Governance, a Metropolis Initiative led by the Secretariat for
Metropolitan Development in the State of São Paulo, with
technical support from Empresa Paulista de Planificación
Metropolitana SA (Emplasa), will take place in the city of
São Paulo from 13 to 15 June. The meeting will compare the different strategies carried out by cities in relation
to models of governance, and analyze how public-private
relationships can determine the execution and financing of
public and social policies in metropolitan areas.
tablishment of forms of financing, project responsibilities
(from conception through to maintenance) and regulatory
frameworks. The Initiative will involve case studies and feature a series of clear technical and policy recommendations
to be promoted among Metropolis members.
This Metropolis Initiative, approved by the Board of Directors at its meeting in Porto Alegre on 26 November 2011,
proposes preparing a comparative study of the realities
of metropolitan governance matters in a number of urban
agglomerations. The analysis considers diverse factors,
such as the definition of the agents of governance, the es-
For further information about the meeting, documentation and how to participate and present case studies, visit the meeting’s webpage.
The first Initiative meeting will launch this international
discussion that will be carried out over three years, and
we encourage all Metropolis members and partners to
take part and share its experiences!
www.metropolis.org
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Call: Metropolis initiative on climate change organizes a meeting in the framework of ICLEI World
Congress in Belo Horizonte
The first meeting of the Metropolis initiative “Concrete
actions taken by metropolises to mitigate, anticipate and
adapt to climate change” to be held in Belo Horizonte on
14th June, as part of the ICLEI World Congress 2012 will
be an opportunity to exchange experiences, case studies
and participate to the Guide development proposed by the
Institute of Urban Planning and Development of the Region
Ile de France (IAU-RIF) and the City of Porto Alegre.
The objective of this Initiative is to exchange good practices
to help cities, regions and partners of Metropolis to face the
problem of climate change.
The year 2012is the first step of this work whose results
will be presented at the Board of Directors of Metropolis in
Guangzhou in November 2012.
If your city, region or institution has already undertaken
actions to face climate change, we call you to share your
experience.
Please find below introductory documents regarding climate change and the forms you should complete in case you
wish to take part in this Initiative:
• Introductory document to climate change and the objectives of the Initiative.
• Sample Form: Regional Plan for the Climate of the Île-deFrance Region.
• Form to be completed with your city/institution experience.
We thank you in advance for sending us the completed
form before 15 May 2012 by email Iuli.Nascimento@iauidf.fr, hjourdan@metropolis.org.
The first meeting of this initiative, during which we will
exchange experiences and case studies, will be held in
Belo Horizonte June 14, 2012, from 9.00h to 16.00h in
the ICLEI World Congress.
We invite interested cities to this workshop to drawn up
our guide. The second part will convene and propose recommendations to local authorities on resiliency and disaster reduction.
In case you are interested, we kindly ask you to forward us
your name and contact details. We also encourage you to
register for the ICLEI World Congress’ activities between
the 14th and 17th June 2012 in Belo Horizonte (the registration fees are waived by City of Belo Horizonte).
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Newsletter Metropolis • April 2012
Barcelona establishes the public/private
basis to roll out Smart Cities
Following on from conversations with
the company Cisco to develop the
Smart City concept, Barcelona has
established the public/private basis to
become a global reference model of
sustainable urban development.
The city will create the BIT-Habitat
Foundation, design the City Protocol,
test-run new urban services, and enjoy
the collaboration of private enterprises
that will also bring their knowledge of
human and material resources to the
table. This has all created a favorable
atmosphere for the creation of a Metropolis Initiative promoted by Barcelona City Council and Cisco.
The BIT-Habitat Foundation (Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat) will encourage innovation in new
services and boost competitiveness
and the investigation of the economic
sectors considered strategic for the
city and its area of influence, with special attention on those related to smart
cities, sustainable growth, and urban
regeneration. The Foundation will foster the association or establishment of
agreements with public organizations
such as Metropolis and UN Habitat,
as well as private firms such as Cisco,
with whom it has already signed a participation agreement.
Both the BIT and the City Protocol will
be rolled out with the participation of
their private-enterprise partners for
the construction of seven pilot services in the field of public services and
the evolution of the city’s information
systems.
The City Protocol is based on a certification system that makes it possible
to measure and evaluate urban efficiency and quality with indicators that
cover structural, functional, social,
and sustainability-related aspects.
Metropolis and the Kreanta Foundation sign
agreement to work together on the Cátedra
Medellin-Barcelona initiative
The collaboration between Metropolis
and the Kreanta Foundation was formalized on Monday 12 March 2012
with the signing of an agreement to
implement the Metropolis Initiative
Transferring Knowledge and Cooperating in Culture, Education and City.
The signing of the agreement, by
Metropolis Secretary-General Alain
Le Saux and the Kreanta Foundation
president Félix Manito, represents the
implementation of the Metropolis Initiative “Cátedra Medellin-Barcelona”.
This Initiative begins from the solid
experience that the cities and civil societies of Medellín and Barcelona have
developed in the transfer, exchange
and generation of knowledge in the
fields of culture, education, and city,
and plans to extend this know-how to
other Metropolis member cities.
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Calendar
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november 2012
Metropolis Board of Directors Guangzhou
2013
Metropolis Board of Directors Johanesburg
2014
11th Metropolis World Congress Hyderhabad
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