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Online Forums

These forums will allow local and regional authorities and practitioners from different parts of the world to come together virtually to raise questions, discuss issues, share experiences, and work together to develop new knowledge, ideas and approaches. The objectives of the forum will be to contribute to the academic development of the programme and to foster interest and participation of those that might not be able to travel to Mexico.

The projected forums will be on:

Promoting Innovation
What should be the new Global Governance
The city of 2030

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Innovation

We are expecting that in this particular Forum, local and regional governments can identify interesting cases where they have found innovative ways to deal with the effects of the crisis, as well as that of facing the challenges and opportunities of topics such as cultural diversity and gender equality. The forum will look for new practices in issues such as:

Local Finances
Unfunded Mandates in Decentralization
Public Basic Services: new choices, new obligations
Local Economic Development
Poverty alleviation
Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue

Governance

The logic of global governance is changing, currently we can't pretend that only nation-sates shape international affairs. New and not so new non-state actors have to be considered, such as: guerrilla groups, separatists, remnants of decaying states, kernell of new ones, international NGOs, multinational cooperations, etc. Furthermore, the formal UN system is under close scrutiny. This Forum would like to reflect on what the local actors consider will be this new global governance and what will be their place in this new structure. The forum will deal with the following specific topics:

Partners in international development
Partners in global solutions
Partners in regional integration

The City of 2030

This forum gives us the chance to stimulate and challenge us in our thinking about our urban future. We can think here of our role, as local and regional leaders, in developing a realistic and positive Vision and set of strategies and policies for the future of the “City”. This Vision will be ample, in that it will encompass issues such as how the city should look and be organized, as well as those that deal in what will be the values and rights of the people that will live in the city. We will deal with the topics defined for the congress, which are:

Living in the city
Working in the city
Moving in the city
Shaping the city

Invitation

Written by Administrator

Friday, 30 April 2010 22:55

Mexico City, May 1st, 2010

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the third World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments - the Local and Regional Leaders World Summit, which will take place from the 16th to the 20th of November 2010, in Mexico City.

Since its creation in Paris in 2004, United Cities and Local Governments has worked to make the voice of mayors and local and regional officials heard, in order to guarantee that cities and regions take their rightful place in the international community.

The cities and regions, including their inhabitants, that we work for, are being faced with stark challenges from global phenomena and events that demand individual and collective action from local authorities, such as: climate change, shared sustainable development, financial crises, dialogue between cultures.

The Local and Regional Leaders World Summit, which will bring together mayors, presidents of regions, local elected officials and their partners, will be an unprecedented occasion for exchange and debate on the role of local governments in development and in the efforts for greater between citizens and also between cities and regions.

The Summit will also be an opportunity to come up together with the answers of local and regional authorities to the pressing issues of this century. Every day, cities and regions are increasingly being recognized as leading actors in the search for solutions. Together, we invite you to Mexico City to take part in drawing up the initial blueprints of a new, more efficient and more democratic world governance. We invite you to envisage with us, the city of the future, the city of 2030.

Your participation at the Summit will also allow you the opportunity to discover the impressive cultural and historical heritage of downtown Mexico City, as well as the vitality of every day life in one of the world’s greatest metropolises.

The high aims of the Summit, its wide participation and its exceptional location promise to make the Summit a unique event of landmark importance. The presence of a large number of delegates will be key to allowing us to move forward with our shared analyses and goals.

We hope to count with your involvement and send you our warmest invitation to join us in Mexico City in November.

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon
Mayor of Mexico City

Bertrand Delanoë
Mayor of Paris, UCLG President

Congress Programme

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Forum

The 3rd UCLG World Congress will have pre-congress virtual Forums. The idea is to have a wide discussions on the main subjects of the congress, with the hope that each discussion produces a document that can be considered in the meetings that will be held in Mexico City.

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