citylab on metropolitan governance managing metropolitan areas / city- regions across boundaries and...
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CITYLAB ON METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE
Managing metropolitan areas / city-regions across boundaries and frontiers
LILLE - 12th February 2010
Joan-Miquel PIQUÉManaging director
Contents
1. Introduction: what is it Localret?2. The crisis in Spain and Catalonia: much more than a bad moment; the
end a two-decade success story.3. The crisis and local administration: harsh times for local budgets; how do
we provide better service with no money?4. A thousand realities: Dealing with difference.5. Infostructures: beyond roads and hospitals - the new keynesianism.
Universal Services and the ITCat example.6. Beyond infrastructures: services for development.7. Citylabs: a network to attract, analyze and create knowledge. Bottom-up
creativity, wikipolicies, and the tools to promote democracy.8. Power to municipalities: the closer, the smarter; or the fastest way to
deal with real needs.9. The 24/7 Administration: machines do the routines, people add value10. Thank you for the crisis: a new economic model, new climate limits, new
workers, a new Administration. PPP, or a modern way to promote huge changes.
Catalonia
Localret is a consortium of 818 municipalities (90% of the municipalities of Catalonia, and 99% of population) founded in 1997
Mission
Create knowledge for the municipalities and turn this knowledge into value, helping them to be adaptable and ready for changes of information society.
Vision
Localret will be the principal reference and provider of ideas, toold and solutions for the municipalities in the field of information society, through the development of the telecommunication infrastructures and new ICT.
Localret
32,000 Km27 million inhabitants200 Inhabitants/sqkm946 municipalities
Localret
Crisis in Spain and Catalonia
Crisis in Spain and Catalonia
Crisis in Spain and Catalonia
A thousand realities
A thousand realities
A thousand realities
Beyond infrastructures: services
Legal and technical advice
Mobile technologies and infrastructure
IS planning
Managing telecom demand at local level
Lobbying
Innovation, communication, tech transfer, events.
Beyond infrastructures: services
Municipalities: the best way to know the needs
Be close, be open: the “Municipalities Meeting Plan”
Big cities board, small cities board
Companies and municipalitites: closing the gap and finding solutions
An opportunity to change
Big challenges, big deals: Public Private Partnership
Just Information society? no! ICT applied to change our economic model and society
Changes are for everyone, no one should fall behind: fighting against digital divide
