Major Cities of Europe annual conference: Prato, 23 - 25 of May 2011

The 2011 conference of the network "Major Cities of Europe" (www.majorcities.eu) has been held in Prato, from May 23rd to May 25th.

Program Highlights

"Do more with less" is nowadays a key driver of Local Government initiatives across Europe: which initiatives can enable innovation and better services under the pressure of the economic situation that may affect decisions and the availability of the necessary budgets?
How digital and mobile technologies are offering a proven way to reshape the way public services are delivered to improve services with greater transparency, access and openness on reduced budgets.

Closely linked to the "Do more with less" theme is the theme of "Smart Cities".
While keeping strict control on their budgets Cities capable to implement their vision on how to be smart are the ones that will succeed in developing the economy, in making the life of citizens easy and pleasant in a sustainable environment.
This requires the capability to become "open", to collaborate with citizens and enterprises and to enable this approach by driving the necessary initiatives.

Conference programme

Conference programme - Pdf format 5 Mb - last update May 26th
Accompanying person programme - Pdf format 567 kb - last update May 18th
Speakers presentations - last update June 22th
Photo gallery - last update July 12th
Video conference - last update July 15th

Official Language: English. Simultaneous translation: Italian

Locations

Conference location: Teatro Politeama Pratese - Via Garibaldi, 33 - 59100 Prato (City Center)
Lord Mayor reception: (23rd of may - 8:00 pm), Teatro Politeama Pratese - Via Garibaldi, 33 - 59100 Prato (City Center)
Gala Dinner: (24th of may - 8.00 pm), textile Museum - via Santa Chiara, 24 - 59100 Prato (City Center)

Linked events

On May 25th, after the conclusion of the Major Cities of Europe annual conference, in the same location the following additional events took place.

The participation to these additional events was free.

ICT and the introduction of municipal fiscal federalism - the project ELICAT-ELIFIS and other experiences and products

Language: Italian (no simultaneous translation)

The interest for event topic is limited to the Italian participants only.

Event programme Pdf format 20kb

Ebla Business Intelligence – A platform for collecting and analyzing data to support the education services in Public Administration

Language: Italian (no simultaneous translation)

The interest for event topic is limited to the Italian participants only.

Event programme Pdf format 19kb

ISAC6+ a unique citizens' attention service

Language: English (no simultaneous translation)

A pan-EU working group has been created that leverages a new tool created to follow a "citizen-centered", "citizen-inclusive" and "community-centered" approach to manage a Citizens’ attention service. Its mission is to respond to citizens’ demands on-line, by retrieving and managing information from existing databases. This group is the core of the EU project ISAC6+
The workshop will focus on the achievements of this project and stimulate the discussion about the usage of artificial intelligence to facilitate the comprehension of citizens’ demands when formulated in colloquial language on web sites.
The workshop is jointly organized with the european progect digital cities: running until December 2011, the project aims to promote the concept of a ‘Digital City’ by taking best practice examples from across Europe and applying them in the local context.