Barcelona v Bogota: The World's Most Democratic City?

3 April 2024 04:00 to 05:15

Barcelona and Bogota, ES Other events

DETAILS

You can see the event on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CzYBlDPPbM

How do you know if your town or city is a democracy? One way to understand the question is to examine cities that are considered leaders in local democratic practice and innovation.

One instructive urban leader in democracy is Barcelona, in the Spain’s autonomous Catalonia region, and the first European Capital of Democracy.

Another is Bogota, the national capital of Colombia, with a long record of innovation in mobility, public participation, and democratic data.

In this event, we’ll bring together two democracy practitioners in Bogota, and two expert-practitioners in Bogota, for a planetary conversation about how to make our cities more democratic and effective.

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ORGANISERS

This event is organized by the Berggruen Institute and the planetary publication Democracy Local, with assistance from Democracy International, the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, the European Capital of Democracy Foundation, and the city and province of Barcelona.

REGISTER

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0YYI9P9kQUyZJx8N-WR12w

SPEAKERS

Marc Serra Solé
MP, deputy for participation, Province of Barcelona Deputy for Participation, Barcelona Provincial Council.
Indira Latorre Gonzalez
senior lecturer at the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and co-director of the international Democracy R&D network.
Felipe Rey Salamanca
Profesor
Francesca Bria
President, Italian Innovation Fund; former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation Officer of the City of Barcelona
Adria Duarte
coordinator of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy at United Cities and Local Governments.