Smart Sustainable Cities
[23 February, 2010 > 11:00-17:30, room Sicco Mansholt, ground floor]
In line with the EC Recommendation C(2009) 7604, the Digital Charter [1] commits cities to work together to deliver on the EU energy and climate objectives using digital technologies, establishing specific objectives and means of achieving them. Moreover, the document stipulates that the cities deploy five large-scale ICT pilots per city before 2015. The Charter was signed on 27 November, in Stockholm, by Mayors of 14 major European cities.
>Green Digital Charter
[11:00-12:30]
The objective of the first session "Green Digital Charter" is
to bring together mayors and city politicians who would be ready to sign the
Charter during the ICT4EE event.
The session will underline the role of cities in achieving Europe-wide energy
and climate change targets, maximizing the potential for cities to influence the
development of "green" ICTs, and to use ICTs to improve energy efficiency and
reduce carbon emissions.
It should shed light on the motivation of cities to sign up to the Charter,
giving details on concrete projects and further planned interventions, and to
identify complementary actions which would be needed from other actors (EC,
national governments, other organizations, other cities), in order to
successfully implement the Charter.
The aim of the session will be also to give a new impetus to the implementation
of the Charter, by increasing the number of cities signing the document.
Chair: Pekka Sauri, Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, Finland
Speakers:
• Vojko Obersnel
Mayor of Rijeka, Croatia
•
Florence Barale
City Counsellor, Nice Cote d'Azur, France
• Dirk Van Der Woude,
Policy Advisor, City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Erich Maurer
ENERGIEregion Gmbh, Nürnberg, Germany
>National and regional initiatives supporting Smart Sustainable Cities
[14:00-15:30]
The second session "National and regional initiatives in support of smart
sustainable cities" will present smart cities' activities in the national
context, as well as examples of specific projects/initiatives based on the
concept of sustainable city.
The following presentations will be made:
1. Smart cities' activities in Spain; the Málaga example
2. The concept of sustainable city in the context of competitiveness poles in
France: Innovation projects illustrating ICT opportunities in support of
energy-efficient cities
3. The Helsinki Region strategy on energy management: Helsingin Energia's
computer halls into an eco-efficient age
4. Activities in the UK: sustainable Bristol, a case study
5. The German Programme E-Energy and its support to smart sustainable cities
Chair: Dave Carter, Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA), Manchester City Council, United Kingdom
Speakers:
•
Jaime Briales Guerrero
Director
AGMEM – Agencia Municipal de Energía, Málaga City Council, Spain
• Juha Sipila
Project Manager
Helsingin Energia, Finland
• Vincent Cousin
Industrial advisor
Advancity – Le pôle de compétitivité des écotechnologies et de la Ville Durable,
France
•
Lorraine Hudson
Climate Change & Built Environment Coordinator
Bristol City Council, The CREATE Centre, United Kingdom
• Jens Brinckmann
Division "Development of Convergent ICT"
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
>ICT investments and sustainability goals
[16:00-17:30]
The third session "ICT investments and sustainability goals" will facilitate
a policy debate among stakeholders to identify gaps in our knowledge as to the
effectiveness of investments in ICT to serve sustainability goals and how the
benefits can be reliably measured.
The rapporteur will present the conclusions of the previous debates, followed by
questions and answers, discussion on future activities, other interventions.
Chair: Dave Carter, Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA), Manchester City Council, United Kingdom
Speakers:
•
Jan Franke
Policy Officer – Knowledge Society
EUROCITIES
• The speakers in the previous two sessions
Rapporteur: Jan Franke, Policy Officer – Knowledge Society, EUROCITIES
Organiser: Carmen Ifrim, DG INFSO, European Commission