PROGRAM
DAY 24/11 – Tuesday
MORNING
VENUE: CENTRAL AUDITORIUM
9h: Opening Ceremony
10h–12h: Panel Democratic Governance in Cities
Speakers: Councilor of the Office of Public Management/OPM (Institute of Public Management – London – United Kingdom), Philipp Copestake; International Affairs Coordinator at the Urban Development Secretariat of the Government of the State of México, Georgina Pozo Rivas;Mayor of Porto Alegre, José Fogaça
Coordinator: Silvia D’Anibale (Consultant of the City Hall of Rome – Department of Economic Politics and Urban Development)
AFTERNOOM
VENUE: CENTRAL AUDITORIUM
13h30–15h30: Panel – New Paradigms for 21st Century Cities
Speakers: Ulrich Groute (UNDESA – Division for Public Administration and Management Development); Philipp Schuck (UN-Habitat); Vincent Defourny (UNESCO).
Coordination: Clênia Maranhão (Secretary for Political Coordination and Local Governance of Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil)
15h30 - 15h45: Coffee
15h45 – 17h30: Panel – 20 Years of Participatory Budget: History and Perspectives.
Speakers: Yves Cabannes (Urbanist and Professor of the University College London – London – United Kingdom); José Leon Garibay (General Secretary of Rosario – Argentina); Helvécio Magalhães (Secretary of Planning, Budget and Information of Belo Horizonte); Ricardo Erig (Coordinator of Participatory Budget of the Department of Budget Programming of the Municipality of Porto Alegre)
Coordination: Marília Fidel (Member of the Coordination of the Participatory Budget Council – COP – Porto Alegre).
METROPOLIS NETWORK MEETING
VENUE: Room 602
13h30-14h: Innovation and ICT in Governance and Local Democracy
Speakers: Jozek Gruskovnjak, CISCO Systems
14h-14h30: The state of the art: an international overview on Integrated Urban Governance
Speakers: Angela Hull, Heriot-Watt University, School of the Built Environment, Edinburgh
14h30-15h: Governing with people: Neighbourhood-based water governance in a Mexican metropolis: precarious self-relief or sustainable selforganisation?
Speakers: Hans Joachim Bürkner, Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner
15h-15h30: Coffee
15h30-17h30: On the way to Integrated Urban Governance: what have we gained, where did we fail, where are the challenges?
Case studies from seven Metropolis member cities:
-Bamako (Fatima Meite)
-Barcelona (Gabriel Barros)
-Belo Horizonte (Helvécio Magalhães)
-Berlin (Lutz Paproth)
-Porto Alegre (Beatriz Ribeiro dos Santos)
-State of Mexico (Georgina Pozo Rivas)
-Sao Paulo (tbc)
VENUE: ROOM 601
16h30–18h: Meeting World Conference on Development of Cities in Perspective
VENUE: Expositions Hall
17h30 – Book Launching
Porto Alegre – Uma Visão de Futuro – Municipal Chamber of Porto Alegre
72 frequent questions about the Participatory Budget - Yves Cabannes
DAY 25/11 – WEDNESDAY
MORNING
VENUE: CENTRAL AUDITORIUM
9h–10h30: The Role of Social Networks on Promotion of Collective Innovations
Speakers: Fivos Papadimitriou (Professor-Counsellor of Hellenic Open University – Greece); Vasco Furtado (Profesor of Universidade de Fortaleza and technology consultant of the Company of Information Technology of Ceará); Gil Giardelli (Coordinator of the Digital Innovation course of ESPM)
Coordination: Cezar Schirmer (Mayor of Santa Maria)
10h30 – 10h45: Coffee
10h45 – 12h: Panel Technologic Innovation on Service of Governance in Cities
Speakers: André Imar Kulczynnksi (Director-president of Procempa); Rita Carnevale (President of the Municipal Council for Science and Technology of Porto Alegre – Comcet); Victor Perton (City Hall of Melbourne/Australia and representative of United Nations Compact Cities Program)
Coordination: Roberto Astor Moschetta (Director of Tecnopuc)
METROPOLIS NETWORK MEETING
9h-12h: Technical Visits
VENUE: ROOM 601
9h-10h30: Workshop Applying Governance in Territories
10h30 – 10h45: Coffee
10h45 – 12h: Launching of the System of Qualification in Participative Local Planning and Management (PGLP)
Participants: Maria Cristina Araújo (representative of the European Commission in Brazil); José Garibay (Municipal Secretary of Rosario); Helvécio Magalhães (Municipal Secretary of Belo Horizonte)
Coordination: Clóvis Magalhães (Municipal Secretary of Management and Strategic Planning of the Municipality of Porto Alegre and General-Coordinator of the PGLP System/Urb-AL Network)
AFTERNOOM
VENUE: CENTRAL AUDITORIUM
13h30–15h15: Panel Democratic Management in Cities
Speakers: José Mario Brasiliense Carneiro (Director of Oficina Municipal – School of Citizenship and Local Management); Edson Luiz Lino da Silva (Manager of the Integrated Governance Programme – City Hall of Cuiabá – Mato Grosso);MA Oommen (Profesor and Chair of Development Economics and Decentralized Planning at the Institute of Social Sciences - New Delhi - India);
Coordination: Maria da Graça Ribeiro das Neves (Brazilian Institute of Municipal Management - Ibam)
15h15–15h30: Coffee
15h30-17h30: Panel Democracy, Decentralization and Gender in Cities
Speakers: Fábia Oliveira Martins Souza (Advisor of Planning of the Special Secretariat of Policies for Women of the Brazilian Presidency); Terezinha Gomes Lameira (Special Coordination of Political Promotion to Gender and Racial Equality – Rio de Janeiro); Jacy Proença (Special Advisory of Political Promotion to Gender and Racial Equality - Cuiabá); Mary George (Professor of the Institute of Social Sciences- New Delhi - India); Fatima Meite (Bamako/Mail)
Coordination: Eurides Pires da Costa (Councilor of the Down Town region - Participatory Budget - Porto Alegre)
VENUE: Room 601
13h30-15h15: Workshop Applying Governance in Territories
15h15-15h30: Coffee
15h30-17h: Presentation of the Research “Observing Porto Alegre´s Participatory Budget: social and associative profile, evaluation, formation of a democratic political culture and potential innovations” – ObservaPoa and UFRGS
Participants: Luciano Fedozzi (Coordinator of the research and Profesor of the Post-Graduation Program in Sociology at UFRGS); Plínio Zalewski (Director of Citizenship and Human Rights of the Secretary of Justice and Social Development/RS); Silvia Rodrigues e Maurício Melo (Councilors of the Participatory Budget/Porto Alegre); Júlio Pujol (Secretary of Policy Coordination and Local Governance of Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil)
Coordination: Valeria Bassani (Management of Socioeconomic Informations- Secretary of Policy Coordination and Local Governance of Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil)
METROPOLIS NETWORK MEETING
VENUE: ROOM 602
13h30-13h45: World Café - a brief introduction into the method
Speaker: Hanns-Uve Schwedler,
13h45-15h15: "World Café" discussions on selected issues of Integrated Urban Governance
World Coffee discussion tables on
- overarching political aims in our cities
- our day-to-day practice of managing implementation of these aims
- barriers to and bottlenecks in cooperation, coordination and integration
15h15-15h45: Coffee
15h45-16h15: Feedback from the World Café discussion tables
16h15-16h30: Proposed action plan up and until 2011 - what do we need? What can we gain?
Speaker: Hanns-Uve Schwedler,
16h30-17h15: Discussion: What do cities need and expect from the Commission Integrated Urban Governance?
17h15-17h30: The way forward: summary, conclusions, perspectives / prospects
Speaker: Hanns-Uve Schwedler,
Venue: Central Auditorium
17h30: Closing Ceremony
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