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Closing the Digital Divide

An interview with citizen participation expert Adrià Duarte (UCLG), exploring how cities can use digital tools to strengthen local democracy, and put human rights at the centre of digital transformation.

e-sabha app

Connecting Communities with Local Authorities and Government Agencies on a Single Platform.

C6 Finland - Finnish Alliance model

A bold new experiment in multilevel collaboration

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Bogota Best Practice program
Bogotá, Colombia

Bogota Best Practice program

Bogota creates International knowledge exchange opportunities for successful policymaking.
Refurbishing ‘Los Limoneros’
Malaga, Spain

Refurbishing ‘Los Limoneros’

Los Limoneros is a social housing complex, which thanks to the project has significantly improved its energy rating.
Sharing mobility strategy in Milan
Milan, Italy

Sharing mobility strategy in Milan

A mobility strategy is enabling Milan, which has one of the highest car ownership rates in Europe, rise to its congestion challenge.
Tampere: Making heritage housing more energy efficient
Tampere, Finland

Tampere: Making heritage housing more energy efficient

Tampere supports actions to make its heritage housing more energy efficient while assisting young people to gain the technical skills needed to carry out these works.
Coding Dreams in Vilas and Favelas
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Coding Dreams in Vilas and Favelas

A training program to prepare the city's vulnerable population for roles in the information technology sector.
Social Intervention Project for the Cumbica Urbanisation Programme
Guarulhos, Brazil

Social Intervention Project for the Cumbica Urbanisation Programme

The aim of the programme is to provide access to social housing and public services to the local population to improve social inclusion

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Nick Rose
Melbourne , Australia

Nick Rose

Individual | Food Systems Coordinator, Sustain: The Australian Food Network
Madhumita
Den Haag, Netherlands

Madhumita

Individual
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ricardo Blanco

Individual | Architect
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Anna Calvete Moreno

Individual
São Paulo, Brazil

Mariana Leila Nascimento Collin

Individual | City manager
Karim Charef
Greater Montreal, Canada

Karim Charef

Individual | Urban planner, Architect.