Citymaking: A Collective Endeavour. Only Together Can We Make the Change We Need
To create the cities we need and want requires the skills, talents, resources, influence and power of all our stakeholders – public, private, civic and researchers as well as their collective motivation, imagination, insight, determination and will. Yet rarely do these varied actors come together with a joint ambition to tackle problems in a paced and purposeful way.
Cities are complex eco-systems involving hardware infrastructures, the sum of their activities, interactions and innovative capacities (which you might call „software“), and the way a place is managed and governed („orgware“).
This session will explore how the platform ‘City Solutions’ is connecting the start-up eco-system and its innovators with public authorities to address mutually defined urgent public needs. Doing so requires all parties to understand and value each other and to put the common interest at the forefront to achieve better outcomes.
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Sissel Hansen
Founder & CEO, Startup Guide & Impact the Future