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NEW DEVELOPMENTS

NEWS AND EVENTS

FCM's 75th Annual Conference and Trade Show - June 1-4, 2012 - Saskatoon, Canada
The Global City Indicators Facility will exhibit at FCM's 75th Annual Conference and Trade Show at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to expand GCIF membership of Canadian Cities. The congress and exposition will be visited by municipal political leaders and senior staff from municipalities all across Canada.

GCIF Amman Roundtable - November, 2012 - Amman, Jordan
The Global City Indicators Facility in partnership with the Arab Urban Development Institute and the Arab Towns Organization will be hosting a roundtable discussion on city indicators and metrics for cities in the West Asia Region. This Roundtable will be held in Amman, Jordan in November 2012. The purpose of the Amman Roundtable will be to discuss the importance and uses of GCIF indicators and urban metrics for the West Asia Region, and to broaden the GCIF membership base in West Asia.

RECENT EVENTS

GCIF African Roundtable - April 18th and 19th, 2012 - Nairobi, Kenya
The Global City Indicators Facility in partnership with the Global Urban Observatory of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the United Cities and Local Governments-Africa hosted a roundtable discussion on city indicators and metrics for Africa. This African Cities Roundtable was held in Nairobi, Kenya on April 18 & 19. The purpose of the African Cities Roundtable was to discuss the importance and uses of GCIF indicators and urban metrics for Africa, and to broaden the GCIF membership base in Africa.

Ukrainian Delegation - March 9th 2012 – GCIF Headquarters, Toronto, Canada
The Ukraine Municipal Local Economic Development (MLED) delegation along with three GCIF Ukrainian member cities – Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih met with GCIF to discuss the importance of urban metrics, GCIF membership and data entry for Ukrainian cities. GCIF gave a demonstration of the GCIF website, how to enter GCIF indicators, how to generate and use GCIF comparative reports, as well as how to use data to inform policies and decision making.

Environmental Advisory Committee Meeting- March 6th 2012 – Oshawa, Canada
The GCIF was invited to present to members of the Oshawa Environmental Advisory Committee on the work of the Global City Indicators, and the new GCIF 2012 Cities and Prosperity Report.

“Smart Cities for All” Workshop, World Bank - March 5th and 6th 2012 -Washington, D.C., USA
The Global City Indicators Facility participated and presented at the World Bank’s “Smart Cities for All” workshop to discuss how GCIF indicators can be used to address needs, challenges and opportunities faced by city administrators.

Lecture on Global Cities - February 27, 2012- Freie University, Berlin, Germany
Patricia McCarney, Director of the GCIF gave a lecture on global cities including the use of urban metrics to address global challenges and needs at Freie University in Berlin.

GCIF Reception and Cities and Prosperity Report Launch – February 10, 2012, Toronto, Canada
The GCIF Report "Cities and Prosperity" was launched at a GCIF Reception in Toronto, attended by many distinguished guests from the Government of Ontario, Government of Canada, GCIF member cities, media, non-governmental organizations and private partners. Cities and Prosperity is the first of a series of upcoming reports on prosperity. This first report highlights the potentials of GCIF data for the evaluation and assessment of prosperity in cities and the body of metrics GCIF will be tracking over future years for more effective city management.

GCIF Aggregation Tool - Pilot Exercise with Ontario Municipalities – December 15, 2011 & January 19, 2012 Toronto, Canada
On December 15th 2011 the Global City Indicators Facility organized and hosted a meeting for GCIF member cities in Ontario together with the Province of Ontario to discuss the piloting of GCIF’s Aggregation Tool. The aggregation function on the GCIF website will enable GCIF municipal data to be aggregated to different regional levels. The Working Group was established and it was agreed that the GCIF will pilot the Aggregation Tool using a sub-set of GCIF and MPMP indicators from the Ontario Government with cities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Preliminary results were presented at the Working Group meeting in January 2012. GCIF is now working on piloting specific indicators for the aggregation function in preparation for the next meeting.

Making Cities Work Series. USAID – December 6, 2011, Washington DC, USA
A presentation was made to USAID in Washington, DC on the Global City Indicators Facility and the importance of urban metrics in a global context, which was broadcast as a webinar on their “Making Cities Work” Series.

Cities Alliance and GCIF Working Group on Urban Poverty – December 5, 2011, Washington DC, USA
The Global City Indicators Facility met with Cities Alliance to establish a GCIF – Cities Alliance Working Group tasked with the review of existing and new indicators on urban poverty.

Sustainable Community Development – November 2011, Helsinki, Finland
The Global City Indicators Facility participated in the Sibbesborg: Sustainable Community Development deliberations. The City of Helsinki is now a member of the GCIF and is very interested in the GCIF pilot exercise on aggregated data at the economic functional area for Greater Helsinki.

National League of Cities: Congress of Cities and Exposition - November 9-11, 2011 - Phoenix, United States
The Global City Indicators Facility exhibited at the NLC Congress of Cities and Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona and encouraged expansion of U.S. cities into the GCIF membership. The congress and exposition was visited by 3,500 mayors, council members, city managers, city clerks and other key city employees from cities all across the United States.

Toronto Forum for Global Cities 5th Annual Meeting: Innovation Cities: Powering the Future - October 24 and 25, 2011 - Toronto, Canada
The Global City Indicators Facility presented at the Toronto Forum for Global Cities 5th Annual Meeting in the Closing Plenary Session on Oct 24th titled, “Innovation Cities: Powering the Future” together with Nitin Kawale, President, CISCO Canada; Bindu N. Lohani, Vice-President, Asian Development Bank; Adam Knelman Ostry, Senior Counsellor, OECD. The Session was chaired by Bill Mantel, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

Inter-Agency Advisory Group Workshop, Gwangju Summit of the Urban Environmental Accords - October 13th 2011 - Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Members of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Global City Indicators Facility, city governments, international agencies, and global companies gathered to discuss sustainable city metrics and to consider the merits of a globally accepted standard for an urban environmental index.

2011 Gwangju Summit of the Urban Environmental Accords - October 11-13, 2011 - Gwangju, Republic of Korea
The Global City Indicators Facility participated in the 2011 Gwangju Summit of the Urban Environmental Accords and presented in the Opening Plenary Session, chaired by Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, Texas, USA. The Urban Environmental Accords were originally drafted and signed by mayors from 52 cities in celebration of World Environment Day in 2005 and the 60th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter in San Francisco. Now over 100 cities in 45 countries have endorsed the Accords. This summit created a unique chance for cities to convene and strengthen their commitment to urban environmentalism. The 2011 Gwangju Summit of the UEA was co-hosted by Mayor Kang Un-Tae of Gwangju, Republic of Korea; Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP and Mayor Edwin M. Lee of San Francisco, California, USA.

FCM Municipal Local Economic Development Project and Association of Ukrainian Cities – Mayors Forum – June 25-July 2, Ukraine
As part of the Municipal Local Economic Development Project led by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Global City Indicators Facility met with three Ukrainian cities – Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih to discuss urban metrics and performance measurement. The GCIF also presented at the Association of Ukrainian Cities Annual Mayors Forum to over 300 Ukrainian Mayors.

Sixth Global Forum on Human Settlements - Building Low-Carbon Cities: A Response to Climate Change - 7-8 APRIL 2011, UN HEADQUARTERS, New York, United States
The GCIF participated in a conference on low carbon cities in New York co-hosted by the Global Forum on Urban Settlements and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). GCIF presented its work and exchanged successful experiences on low-carbon city building and green economy initiatives.

Global City Indicators Facility and Inter-American Development Bank Partnership
The Global City Indicators Facility is working in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging Sustainable Cities Initiative with cities in Latin America. As a result of this partnership, the GCIF held a workshop in February in Trujillo, Peru as part of a pilot exercise. The workshop included Trujillo’s Municipal Chamber of Commerce, city officials and institutions of the Provincial Municipality of Trujillo. The GCIF and IDB also held a meeting in Cartagena, Colombia in May with IDB’s four pilot cities and the network of cities “Como Vamos” to discuss work with city indicators and the IDB Sustainable Cities Initiative.

Knowledge Cities Conference - March 1-2, 2011 - Al-Madinah Al-Munawarrah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The GCIF was invited to speak at a conference on knowledge cities in Saudi Arabia hosted by the Municipality of Al-Madinah Al-Munawarrah together with the World Bank.

World Health Organization Consultation Meeting on Urban Health Metrics Research - February 23-25, 2010 - Kobe, Japan
The GCIF was invited by the WHO to present its work on urban health metrics at the WHO Centre for Health Development's meeting on urban health metrics research in Kobe, Japan.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - February 11, 2011 - Washington, DC, United States
The GCIF was invited to present our work on the development of a globally standardized set of indicators for cities worldwide as part of a panel hosted by U.S. HUD which includes Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary, HUD, Jessica Rosen Tulodo, USAID, James A. Brooks, National League of Cities and Abha Joshi-Ghani, The World Bank.

OECD Roundtable on Environmental Indicators for Cities - November 29, 2010, Paris
The GCIF was invited to present its work to the OECD in Paris. The meeting was hosted by the OECD Working Parties on Territorial Indicators and on Territorial Development Policies in Urban Areas. It brought together international experts and policy-makers from all OECD countries to discuss evidence based policies for regional and urban economies.

UCLG 3rd Congress, Local and Regional Leaders World Summit 2010 - November 16-20 - Mexico City
The GCIF was invited by UNESCO to present its diversity and immigration research and indicators at UNESCO's International Seminar in Mexico City: How could we enhance inclusiveness for international migrants in our cities?: Urban policies and creative practices

100 CITIES!
Welcome Kabul, Afghanistan - GCIF's 100th Member! Over 100 cities are now contributing to the Global City Indicators Facility database.

ICLEI – 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change May 28-30, 2010, Bonn, Germany
The GCIF participated in ICLEI’s 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change.

Carbon Expo – May 26-28, 2010, Cologne, Germany
The GCIF participated in the Carbon Expo in Cologne. The Global City Indicators Facility was presented as a tool to assist cities with climate change challenges allowing cities to track and measure their mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Helsinki Design Lab Sustainability studio - May 24-28, 2010, Helsinki, Finland
The GCIF provided indicator expertise to this Sustainability studio on achieving a carbon neutral strategy for Finland.

The Comparative Genetics of Cities: Towards an Integrated Methodology for Pragmatic Urban Decision-making - May 21-23, 2010, London, UK
The GCIF contributed experiences in setting up and running an Indicators Facility.

CMHC Sustainable Housing and Communities Working Group April 26, 2010, Montreal, Quebec
The GCIF was presented to CMHC members during the National Housing Research Committee’s Sustainable Housing and Communities Working Group session

Greater Toronto Area Roundtable – April 23, 2010, Guelph, Ontario
The GCIF presented the Global City Indicators to cities of the Greater Toronto area to discuss the need to agglomerate indicators for municipalities within the metropolitan area.

United Nations - World Urban Forum 2010
GCIF hosted two networking events with member cities and launched its first Annual Report at UN HABITAT’s World Urban Forum in Brazil 2010.

"City Indicators and Comparative Measurement" - Wednesday March 24, 2010 - 14:00 to 16:00, room W2-15
GCIF hosted a roundtable with global cities, urban practitioners and international organizations to discuss the importance of globally comparative indicators. Preliminary first year data was presented by the city panelists as “City Reports” and a Global City Indicators Report 2010 was launched. This event was open to all cities and interested international and local organizations and citizens.View Event Program

"Towards a Comparative City Set of Indicators" - World Urban Forum 2010 - Monday March 22, 2010 - 14:00 to 16:00, room W3-18
GCIF co-hosted a networking event with the City of Sao Paulo for a number of Brazilian cities in partnership with the Ministry of Cities of Brazil, the Cities Alliance, the World Bank and the Monitoring and Research Division of UN-HABITAT. The need for a standardized set of indicators was examined at both the city level and the national level in Brazil. This event was open to all cities and interested international and local organizations and citizensView Event Program

UN-HABITAT's Expert Group Meeting - "The Global Urban Trends: New Paradigms in Developing Indicators for Urban Observatories" - Dead Sea, Jordan, February 8-10, 2010
The GCIF participated in the Expert Group Meeting to present the GCIF set of indicators and to discuss the current state of urban indicators.

World Future Energy Summit - MASDAR City, Abu Dhabi UAE, January 18-21, 2010
The GCIF was presented in the session "A New Low2No Carbon Urbanism" at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The session explored questions around how existing cities should evolve and what are the economic, policy and regulatory conditions that will affect systematic change using case study examples from around the world. The Global City Indicators Facility was presented as a case study.

Urban Age Institute - Sustainable City Finance - New York, January 7, 2010
GCIF participated in the "Sustainable City Finance" event co-hosted by the Urban Age Institute and the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City to discuss the role of a global standard set of city indicators for more effective city management and sustainable city planning.

Third National Land Congress - Merida Mexico, October 28-30, 2009
GCIF presented the Global City Indicators Facility at the Third National Land Congress in Merida, Yucatan Mexico to introduce the Facility to Mexican cities and the Mexican National Government.

World Bank - A Dialogue on Cities and Climate Change - Washington, September 2009
GCIF participated in the World Bank event "A Diagloue on Cities and Climate Change" for discussion with private sector partners and other institutional partners.

CITYNET Yokohama Congress – Yokohama, Japan September 7-11, 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility attended the CITYNET Yokohama Congress in Japan to present the Facility to cities in the Asian region.

Philippines Training Workshop – Manila, Philippines September 11, 2009
GCIF co-hosted a training workshop with the League of Cities of the Philippines to train current member cities in the Philippines to enter data on the GCIF website and to introduce the Global City Indicators Facility to potential new members.

Vietnam Workshop – Haiphong, Vietnam September 18, 2009
The GCIF presented the Global City Indicators Facility at the workshop on Inidcators for Urban Management hosted by Haiphong city.

Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence – July 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility submitted an application to the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovations for a $4 million research grant. If successful, this grant will assist the GCIF with expanding its activities and sustaining the Facility.

World Bank Urban Research Symposium – Marseilles, France June 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility was presented to researchers and practitioners at the Urban Research Symposium. The GCIF Director presented a paper titled “City Indicators on Climate Change: Implications for Policy Leverage and Governance”.

Japan Workshop June 2009
A workshop on the Global City Indicators Facility was hosted by PADECO. Cities from Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia were present. The Facility was presented to city leaders and discussions were held on the use of indicators and the expansion of the Global City Indicators Facility in the Asian region.

Carbon Expo – Barcelona June 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility participated in two World Bank panels at the Carbon Expo in Barcelona: “Creating Urban Carbon Assets: From Concepts to Action” and “Climate Challenge – A Voice for Cities”. The Global City Indicators Facility was presented as a tool to assist cities with climate change challenges allowing cities to track and measure their mitigation and adaptation efforts

Cities Symposium – Barcelona June 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility participated in a Cities Symposium “Cities, Climate Change and Finance: Elements for a Cities-Led Agenda on the Road to Copenhagen” sponsored by the World Bank, City of Barcelona and Government of Spain.

ICLEI World Congress – Edmonton June 2009
The Global City Indicators Facility participated in the ICLEI World Congress in Edmonton and made presentations in two sessions: “Governance and Planning Solutions for an integrated eco-city approach” and “Climate and Energy Resources – Project Market”. A presentation on the Global City Indicators Facility was made during the first session and a roundtable was held in the second session to introduce participants to the Global City Indicators Facility and host a discussion on the use and practice of indicators in the delegates’ cities.

GCIF Technical Workshop, Toronto
A workshop with member cities and international organizations to discuss the global city indicators on April 15-16.View agenda

Greater Toronto Area Roundtable, Toronto
Roundtable to discuss how best to agglomerate indicators for municipalities within a metropolitan area now being planned.

World Bank Sustainable Development Network Workshop – Washington March 2009
GCIF presented the City Indicators Facility to the World Bank Sustainable Development Network “Building a Stronger Results Platform”

Angola Workshop
GCIF was in Angola for expert group meetings with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to discuss the use of city indicators and membership of Angolan cities.

UN-HABITAT Conference - Jordan
GCIF presents its work to the "Second Regional Conference on Creativity and Initiatives of Development in Arab Cities" in Amman, Jordan on April 27-29.

Greenhouse Gas Index
A Greenhouse Gas Index for measuring climate change in cities is now under development with the World Bank.

International Studies Association - New York
GCIF organized a panel for ISA in New York City Feb 15-18, 2009 "Cities and Global Governance: Typologies" as part of a themed cluster titled "Cities as New Sites of Global Governance." GCIF was represented by the World Bank and GCIF Director.

Intergovernmental Panel on Cities and Climate Change - Columbia University
The Director of GCIF attended the IPC3 Conference and is the lead author of the IPC3 Report's Concluding Chapter on Cities and Governance.

GCIF Offical Launch, UN WUF - Nanjing
The Global City Indicators Facility was offically launched at the United Nations World Urban Forum in Nanjing, China November 2008.

Practitioners’ Roundtable on Energy Efficient Cities – World Bank October 2008
GCIF presented the City Indicators Facility to the World Bank Energy Efficient Cities Workshop.

Partnership with UN-HABITAT MOU
A GCIF institutional Memorandum of Understanding is under development with UN-HABITAT.

Partnership with Clean Air Initiative - Asia
A GCIF institutional Memorandum of Understanding is now under development with the Clean Air Intiative in Asia.