Partnership for Urban Innovation Global Conference 2010
SHANGHAI JUNE 17TH 2010
Conference Lead Partners
The Climate Group
The Climate Group's goal is to help government and business set the world economy on the path to a low-carbon, prosperous future. To reach this goal, The Climate Group created a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses all committed to tackling climate change.
Metropolis
Metropolis, the World Association of Major Metropolises, is the metropolitan section of the United Cities and Local Government organization (UCLG). Created in 1985, the Metropolis Association is represented by more than 100 members from across the world and operates as an international forum for exploring issues and concerns common to all big cities and metropolitan regions. Its mission "...is to accompany cities in mutual learning, innovation, governance, technical/financial assistance, international presence and debate."
Connected Urban Development
Connected Urban Development (CUD) is a five-year program that was developed through Cisco's participation in the Clinton Global Initiative. CUD, a public-private partnership between Cisco and cities around the world, demonstrates how ICT and network connectivity can increase efficiencies and reduce carbon emissions in urban environments.
www.connectedurbandevelopment.org
Cisco, Smart+Connected Communities
Cisco's vision for Smart+Connected Communities is to transform physical communities into connected communities that run on networked information to help drive broad economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
The conference is supported by the Smart+Connected Communities (S+CC) Institute. The S+CC Institute is a not-for-profit initiative developed by Cisco, Metropolis and leading NGOs and academic partners. The S+CC Institute aims to create a forum for political leaders, community managers, developers, practitioners and other subject matter experts to come together in a forum to share research, experiences and collaborate around new concepts and approaches for creating sustainable cities through improved governance and the use information and communications technologies (ICT). The S+CC Institute will create this forum through non-commercial education events and an online portal to facilitate this dialog around economic, environmental and social sustainability for both urban and rural communities.
www.cisco.com/web/strategy/smart_connected_communities.html
Conference Knowledge Partners
Urban Land Institute
ULI-the Urban Land Institute is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, the institute now has members in 95 countries worldwide, representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines, working in private enterprise and public service.
As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.
The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.
Members say that ULI is a trusted idea place where leaders come to grow professionally and personally through sharing, mentoring, and problem solving. With pride, ULI members commit to the best in land use policy and practice.
The World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.
Today, the World Bank with its partners is committed to promoting sustainable cities and towns that fulfill the promise of development for their inhabitants -- in particular, by improving the lives of the poor and promoting equity -- while contributing to the progress of the country as a whole. As the world is becoming more urban and governments are decentralizing responsibility and authority for governance to localities, closely working with cities and municipalities to address urban development is a timely and urgent World Bank priority.
The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation has a 50-year history of successfully meeting social needs, mainly through creating new enterprises and promoting new ideas. We start from the big questions of our times - how to cope with ageing; how to engage teenagers bored by school; how to reduce conflict within communities; how to meet the needs of people living with chronic diseases? And we then work with them to design practical solutions which we can then implement, often starting on a small scale. Some of these turn into new organisations; some feed into public policy; and some get taken up by existing organisations.
We host a global network of organisations involved in the field of social innovation, and are building up the field with more systematic research, methods and tools to help societies address challenges from poverty and loneliness to ageing. We are one of the world's leading centres for social innovation - working on many different levels to achieve positive social change including research, policy, creating and nurturing new organisations, running 'on the ground' projects, and acting as a hub and network to support others.
Social Innovation eXchange (SIX)
SIX is a global community of individuals and organisations - including NGOs, global firms, public agencies and academics - committed to promoting social innovation. Our aim is to improve the methods with which societies find better solutions to challenges such as climate change, inequality and healthcare. By developing resources for social innovators around the world, communicating and disseminating ideas about social innovation, SIX promotes learning across sectors, fields and countries and builds the capacity of its members to work together to respond to the biggest challenges societies faces today. Since its launch in Sydney, Australia in 2008, SIX's global community has grown to close on 1,000 members and includes social innovation practitioners, designers, architects, healthcare professionals, education specialists as well as social entrepreneurs, and individuals from government, the private sector, charities and foundations.