{"id":3151,"date":"2013-06-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uclg-digitalcities.org\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:09:03","slug":"report-of-the-working-meeting-in-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uclg-digitalcities.org\/en\/report-of-the-working-meeting-in-bordeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of the working meeting in Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 31st<\/sup> of May was held in the French City of Bordeaux a working meeting between Committee members of the European Section.<\/em><\/p>\n

The working meeting organized by the City of Bordeaux<\/strong>, Vice-President of the Committee for Europe in collaboration with the City of Bilbao<\/strong>, President of the Committee was attended by 7 European cities<\/strong>: Bilbao (Spain), Bordeaux, Pau, Poitiers, Toulouse, Suresnes (France), Milano (Italy) and Lappeenranta (Finland) and a representative of UCLG´s World Secretariat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Committee we consider that these kinds of meetings are very important since they give the opportunity to the committee members to meet and discuss<\/strong> in small operative groups<\/strong> diverse issues that are for interest in the cities, share knowledge<\/strong> but most of all, to create a space to facilitate future collaboration between cities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In order to focus the work developed in the working meetings, each working meeting will be centred in one of the key areas of performance<\/strong> identified during the elaboration of the “Smart Cities Study: International study on the situation of ICT, innovation and Knowledge in cities” and that incorporates a “holistic” vision of Smart City<\/strong>, which brings together 6 key Areas<\/strong> of performance that affect the development of cities: economy, governance, people, mobility, environment and living.<\/p>\n

This first working meeting in Bordeaux was focused on the “Smart Economy”<\/span> <\/strong>axis and allowed the attendants to share vision and also debate new tendencies on issues related with the creation, attraction and retention of talent<\/strong>, the importance of boosting new emerging sectors of activity<\/strong> -especially the ones related to the new technologies, innovation and green technologies-, the importance of creating and enable infrastructures and spaces for the business development and creativity<\/strong> in order to give support to the entrepreneurship<\/strong>, among others issues. <\/p>\n

You may access by following the link below the meeting report with the main conclusions and findings of the meeting, but most of all two projects of collaboration<\/strong> that were proposed during the meeting.<\/p>\n

In case that your city is interested in taking part<\/strong> in any of them or propose<\/strong> another collaboration project, please contact the Committee Secretariat.<\/p>\n

Links to the documentation:<\/p>\n