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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

Notimex: World Congress of Cities will be held in the Federal District

Written by Administrator
Monday, 30 November 2009 09:07
Mexico, 3 Oct (Notimex) .- Authorities of different countries will exchange views on various issues in the Third World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), to be held in November 2010 in the Federal District. The capital's mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, during his working visit in Nagoya, Japan, invited the mayor of that community, Takashi Kawamura, to be a part of the congress, which will receive local authorities and members of UCLG. In a statement he said that the meeting will address issues of the global agenda such as climate change, urbanization and local finance, promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, empowerment of local governments and strengthening relations between them . For the first time the Federal District will host this congress of the UCLG, which was established in 2004 and so far has sessions in the cities of Paris, France, and Jeju, Republic of Korea. [see original article]
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 22:25

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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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