Context

Network cities with more than one million inhabitants, national capitals and organizations linked to the urban theme.

Metropolitan Section of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

25 years of experience Growing presence in emerging countries

Members
129 members distributed in 5 geografic areas

Objetives
Enhance and transmit knowledge and the innovative practices

Promote technical and financial assistance

Represent and give political visibility to the metropolitan interests in national and international institutions. Encourage reflection on trends in the evolution of cities and metropolitan policy

Action Plan 2009-2011: Commissions

1. Ecological Regions
2. Managing Urban Growth 3. Integrated Urban Governance 4. Megacities 5. Partnership for Urban Innovation

C5: Partnership of Urban Innovation

Objective Analize and make recommendations on procedures to: Foster innovation in cities Strengthen and publicize innovative solutions among the cities Public-Private Partnership Worked with the private sector and other interested institutions Some collaborations CISCO (Agreement), IBM, The Climate Group, CEOs for Cities

New Action Plan 2012-2014

Two main action lines:

Creation of the Metropolis Initiatives

Development of the Public-Private Partneship

Metropolis Iniciatives
1. Agile Cities for a New Age of Accessibility, Efficiency and Growth 2. Comparative Study on Metropolitan Governance
Living Labs and The Climate Group
State of Sao Paulo

3. Concrete actions taken by metropolises to mitigate, anticipate and adapt to climate change 4. Integrated Strategic Planning and Public-Private Partnerships 5. Integrated Urban Governance Successful Policy Transfer 6. Mentoring on Upgrading Informal Settlements 7. Promotion and Development of the Barcelona Innovation Center

le-de-France Region and

City of Porto Alegre City of Melbourne UNGCCP City of Berlin

Cities: Durban, Sao Paulo UCLG Barcelona City Council Cisco Systems

8. Transferring Knowledge and Cooperating in Culture, Education and City Kreanta Foundation

Innovative Iniciatives
Agile Cities for a New Age of Accessibility, Efficiency and Growth Partnership between Living Labs Global, The Climate Group and City Mart

Objetive: linking cities with solutions providers in an intelligent marketplace

Promotion and development of the Barcelona Innovation Center Partnership between the Barcelona City Council and Cisco Systems

End goal: the implementation of the Barcelona Innovation Center

Barcelona is committed with the Smart Cities

Barcelona hosts the headquarters of the Secretary General of Metropolis. The bet:

Urban planning + sustainability + technology to serve the citizens.

Smartcities as a driving force element of economic activity and creation of wealth. The boost of the Smart Cities in Barcelona is built on public-private collaboration.

Barcelona wants to be a urban reference of Smart Cities

Some examples:

Mobile World Congress Smart City Expo & Congress Smart City Campus Smart City Protocol

Thanks

www.metropolis.org

www.facebook.com.metropolis.org

www.twitter.com/metropolis.org