La reunión de la Comisión sobre “Smart Local Governance” se celebra con éxito

Los días 6 y 7 de noviembre se celebró en Bilbao la reunión internacional "SMART LOCAL GOVERNANCE: El reto de la buena gobernanza en la administración local.

La reunión organizada por la Ciudad de Bilbao que preside la Comisión de Ciudades Digitales y del Conocimiento de CGLU, la mayor red de ciudades y autoridades locales a nivel mundial ha contado con la colaboración de UN-Habitat, la Comisión de Descentralización y Autonomía Local de CGLU presidida por la Diputación de Barcelona, el Programa de Ciudades de la LSE y EUDEL.

Más de 80 representantes de ciudades, asociaciones de ciudades, organizaciones internacionales y el mundo académico de todo el mundo asistieron a la reunión.

Los días 6 y 7 de noviembre se celebró en ilbao la reunión internacional "SMART LOCAL GOVERNANCE: El reto de la buena gobernanza en la administración local de la Comisión de Ciudades Digitales y del Conocimiento de CGLU.

La Ciudad de Bilbao preside la Comisión de Ciudades Digitales y del Conocimiento, la cual tiene como principal objetivo impulsar el intercambio de conocimiento y colaboración entre ciudades. La Comisión publicó en 2013 el "Smart Cities Study: Estudio internacional sobre la situación de las TIC, la innovación y el Conocimiento en las ciudades" en el cuál se identificaron 6 ejes de actuación para el desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades: economía, gobernanza, ciudadanía, movilidad, medio ambiente y calidad de vida.

Ésta reunión de trabajo ha estado centrada en el eje "Smart Local Governance". Los gobiernos locales de todo el mundo están trabajando para mejorar su eficiencia y eficacia y, por lo tanto, recuperar la confianza de la ciudadanía en su gestión. La cada vez más creciente exigencia de la ciudadanía, obliga a los gobiernos locales a afrontar el reto ineludible de aumentar su capacidad de ofrecer soluciones eficaces a los problemas colectivos y de generar y ofrecer aceptación, complicidad y cercanía a su ciudadanía adoptando soluciones innovadoras en sus procesos e instrumentos de gestión y en la formulación de sus políticas.

Una nueva cultura organizativa con un importante componente relacional, cuyo objetivo último es lograr una gobernanza más innovadora, en la que el rigor económico, la calidad y mejora continua, la transparencia, la pluralidad, la participación y la cohesión social sirvan como elementos para alcanzar unos territorios más creativos, emprendedores, competitivos, inteligentes y sostenibles. La Smart Local Governance comprende los aspectos de la participación política y activa, servicios para la ciudadanía, así como el funcionamiento inteligente de la administración.

Todo ello con el apoyo de las Nuevas Tecnologías, las cuales permiten el establecimiento de una nueva forma de relación entre la Administración Local y la ciudadanía; en particular, el establecimiento de servicios públicos en línea y el aprovechamiento de las Nuevas Tecnologías para mejorar la participación la ciudadanía en las decisiones públicas.

La reunión ha representado una oportunidad única para el intercambio de conocimiento y el debate sobre algunos de los principales desafíos y retos a los que se enfrentan los gobiernos locales para la buena gobernanza como son: la gestión pública local estratégica; la Transparencia y Participación ciudadana; la Inteligencia de ciudad: Big data + open data; y la modernización de la Administración y Servicios Públicos On-line.

Durante la jornada se ha podido conocer la visión de personas expertas en los temas, provenientes de organizaciones internacionales y del mundo académico como la Nord-Trøndelag University College (HiNT) de Noruega, la George Washington University, el Instituto Europeo de Administración Pública (EIPA), Transparency International, la OECD y Microsoft, entre otros.

La reunión ha permitido también conocer las experiencias llevadas a cabo por ciudades como Bilbao, Mannheim, Tampere, Barcelona, Trondheim, Maputo, la Diputación de Barcelona y Asociaciones y Redes de Ciudades y Municipios como EUDEL, FLACMA y Citynet.

Además, se han podido conocer los proyectos que se están llevando a cabo como el "Estudio sobre el Futuro de la Gobernanza Urbana", impulsado Programa de Ciudades de la LSE, UN-Habitat y la Comisión de Descentralización y Autonomía Local de CGLU y el Proyecto "Plataforma Uraía" de UN-Habitat,.

Presentaciones: Hemos publicado todas las presentaciones en la página web de la Comisión en la sección Intercambio de conocimiento / Experiencias. Pueden acceder a ellas en el siguiente enlace

Informe: castellano / inglés

Fotos:  enlace

Programa definitivo: castellano / inglés


UCLG Celebrates Urban October

On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2014, UCLG calls upon its members to participate in the #urbanSDG Selfie Campaign, which will culminate on 31 October with the first #WorldCitiesDay.

For the first time ever, this October, two important milestones in the urban calendar will coincide in the same month. As usual, on the first Monday of each October, which this year falls on 6 October, the world will be celebrating World Habitat Day. This year´s new addition is the celebration of World Cities Day #CitiesDay on the last day of the month, 31 October. The celebrations, events and activities taking place around these two days can be grouped together under the umbrella of Urban October.

Urban October will bring together many of the initiatives on advocacy, outreach and communication on sustainable urban development. Urban October is a month for raising interest in urban challenges, for stimulating debates and moving forward commitments.

With important global agendas in the process of being defined, UCLG calls upon its members and partners to mobilize and raise awareness about the transformative potential of urbanization and the significant role that well-managed cities with strong institutions accountable to citizens can play in a sustainable future for all.

With the first steps of the Habitat III Conference preparations already taken and the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals well underway, Local and Regional Governments underline that rural‑urban linkages, the engagement of cities and partnerships with citizens will be key for the success of a universal agenda. ​

We encourage local and regional leaders, mayors, presidents and elected representatives to participate by taking a selfie with the hashtags #urbanSDG and #CitiesDay.

It´s easy! Join the campaign!

Show your commitment to contribute to the sustainable development agenda and Habitat III.

#HabitatDay | #CitiesDay | #UrbanSDG

 


Local and regional governments participation #Habitat III Prepcom I

The first Preparatory Committee meeting (Prepcom I) of Habitat III, the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, will be taking place in New York on 17-18 September, including pre-meetings on 15-16 September.

Prepcom I will be the first step towards the definition of a shared vision of the New Urban Agenda an agenda which many expect to define the implementation mechanisms of the 2015 Summit Resolutions and Sustainable Development Goals.

Members and partners of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 Development Agenda and towards Habitat III, including members of the UCLG Presidency and Vice-Presidency and political representatives of the networks, will set the expectations of their constituencies on the role to be played in the definition of the agenda and on future governance.

A renewed urban and territorial agenda

Building on membership priorities, expectations and concerns, local and regional leaders and political representatives will pay particular attention to issues surrounding the implementation of Habitat III, the links between the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III, the localization of targets and indicators, and the challenges of local and regional authorities for the next two decades.

Activities and events prior to and during Prepcom I

In order to feed the debates of national governments and provide the views of local authorities in the key issues identified, the Global Taskforce will be coordinating events and side events from 15 to 18 September, including:

  • 15 September, morning: The technical meeting of the Global Taskforce will finalise the messages of Local and Regional Governments, their networks and partners, and will allow participants to exchange information on the Prepcom I agenda. 
  • 15 September, afternoon: The Policy Dialogue of Local and Regional Governments, supported by the Spanish Mission, will discuss the development of the Global Agenda of Local and Regional Governments, building on membership priorities, expectations and concerns. The Dialogue will involve representatives from UN missions, governments and agencies such as UN-Habitat, Cities Alliance, UNDP and other urban partners. 
  • 16 September, morning: The Global Taskforce will coordinate the High-Level Event of Local and Regional Governments, which will present views on the implementation of Habitat II, discuss the links between the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III and set out their priorities for the Habitat III agenda. High-Level UN officials and political representatives will be present. 
  • 18 September, the side event of local and regional authorities will take place from 1:30pm to 2:30pm and will deal with the "Local and regional governments´ contributions to Habitat III: priorities, expectations, and challenges for sustainable cities and territories". 

 Spread the message!

In order to raise awareness on the involvement of local and regional authorities in this process, UCLG and the Global Taskforce will be promoting the use of outreach material through social media.

Enclosed: a toolkit and graphics to be used to promote the messages on Facebook and Twitter. Please feel free to share it on social networks.

Further information: Local and Regional Authorities´ Days

Check the related page in UCLG website.

 


The Committee collaborates with ONUHABITAT in the organization of the “Marketplace and project design exercise for SMART Technologies for municipal sustainability”

From the Committee we are collaborating with ONUHABITAT in the organization of the "Marketplace and project design exercise for SMART Technologies for municipal sustainability" that will be held from 30 June to 1 July 2014 in the City of Santander.

The Local Governments and Decentralization Unit of UNHabitat and the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV) are jointly designing a pilot project to facilitate the access to apps and SMART technologies able to support cities in generating endogenous resources, thanks to a better access and provision of public services within a framework of transparency in their management and delivery.

The goal of this pilot Project is to support both cities in developing and industrialized countries in their challenge to introduce SMART technologies for public management. The project will create a world network to exchange experiences and will develop concrete apps able to help municipalities to better manage their municipal finances.

This launch event to be held in Santander, is one the first one of a series of meetings that will be held in other cities from all around the world, and will have as main objectives:

  1. Need assessment for the participant cities in relation with the implementation of SMART technologies in the municipal finances field
  2. Identification of the areas of interest for the development of pilot apps.
  3. Launch of the global network on SMART municipal finance.
  4. Identification of the more frequent challenges for the implementation of SMART technologies to public management, with special attention to procurement process and the normative aspects of municipal fiscal management.
  5. Networking space for the participant cities and the private sector (with special focus on technological service providers and telephonic companies).
  6. Study visit to the experience of the host city of Santander in implementing SMART technologies, analysis of the experience of Smart Santander and identification of lessons learnt.

If you are interested in taking part in the Workshop, please contact Diana A. Lopez Caramazana, Decentralization and Local Governments Unit- ONUHabitat diana.lopez@unhabitat.org.

Workshop programme


Smart City Lighting Event

Cities all over the world are facing revolutionary changes in city lighting. To become more affordable, cities need to start investigating the wide range of benefits of switching from a traditional professional field of city lighting to the far more complex network of smart lighting technology. To achieve this, exchanging of new knowledge, bright ideas and creative solutions on a regular basis is becoming increasingly important. The two-day Smart City Lighting Event taking place at the 24th and 25th of June is thé platform to flesh out.

More information: www.smart-circle.org/lighting/