The Municipality of Genoa, together with the City of Marseille and “TheMayor.EU – the European Portal for Cities and Citizens” organized the third EUDIGIT webinar: “Digitalization and Public Administration”.

The event aimed to explore how our cities can become better places to live in, thanks to digital services and the implementation of more targeted and inclusive approaches to city management.

The virtual event offered a fresh and inspirational mix of local experiences and best practices from leading EU cities, as well as multiple success stories on how local authorities have managed to adapt their services, digital presence and cultural offers to the new realities, especially in the context of COVID-19.

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Agenda of the seminar
 

Panel 1: Digitalization and Public Administration: cities’ states of play and best practices

• Results of Rotterdam local workshop
• Results of Marseille local workshop
• Results of Cluj-Napoca local workshop
• Results of Genoa local workshop
• Results of Varna local workshop 
• Results of Hamburg local workshop

Panel 2: Digitalization of cultural events in cities

• The experience of Genoa and the “Rolli Days” Mr. Pietro Toso – Scientific Communicator of Rolli Days Digital Week & Marisa Gardella, Head of the Communication and Social Media Strategy Dep., City of Genoa

Panel 3: The importance of digitalization in European and extra-European Programmes and networks (Materials coming soon)

• The IURC Programme – How sustainable urban development in cities overlaps with the theme of digitalization and smart cities, Mr. Edgardo Sala, Deputy Team Leader for the IURC Latin America 
• The experience of Mar del Plata (Argentina), Mr Santiago Bonifatti, Government Secretary, Mar del Plata City Hall
• Best practices from Barcelona, Chair of KSF Eurocities, Mrs Paula Boet, BIT Habitat — Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, Barcelona City Council
• EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum: background, experience and activities over the last years, Mr. Lodewijk Noordzij, Policy Officer – Knowledge Society Forum and Mr Joan Batle, Technical Chair -Knowledge Society Forum, International Affairs Dep., City of Barcelona
• Best practices from Digital Citizenship WG member, City of Debrecen, Mrs Mariann Vamos-Mocsar

Panel 4: The Digitalization of Citizen Services

• The European Policy Context, Mrs Marlene Madsen, Deputy Head of Cabinet of EU Cohesion and Reforms Commissioner Elisa Ferreira
• The Experience of Genoa with the “Citizens’ Platform”, Mrs. Ilaria Pittaluga, ICT City of Genoa
• The Bulgarian experience: insights from lessons learned. Dr. Juliana Hadjitchoneva, New Bulgarian University

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