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

www.localret.cat

Thank you very much!

Joan-Miquel PIQUÉ

Comments welcome to:

jmpique@localret.cat