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Green & Connected Cities - A Cluster for 'green' and digital cities
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21 European and Mediterranean cities, alongside multinationals, innovative companies, experts, NGOs and researchers have joined forces to address together key issues in sustainable development.
The aim of this cluster is to establish together innovative and effective initiatives and ideas to lead way to both sustainable and interconnected cities of the 21st Century.
Further to an initiative by Grenoble Ecole de Management and the European Association of Communication and Information for Sustainable Development (ACIDD), the Green & Connected Cities cluster aims to combine Information Technologies and sustainable development to meet the many environmental and societal challenges of ‘green’ and digital cities.
This cluster is a collective and active effort by:
21 cities: 7 cities from North Europe, 7 Mediterranean cities, 7 French cities including Grenoble, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Manchester, Malaga, Tunis...
10 leading businesses: Committed and complimentary such as Orange, Renault, Véolia, Schneider Electric, PricewaterhouseCoopers...
Organisations: Associations, local authorities, international organisations, Medias, universities, research centres with an expertise in cities, sustainable development and energy saving issues.
The resources centre for the cluster will be managed in Grenoble by the Enterprise 2.0 Institute at the heart of Grenoble Ecole de Management.
The cluster was officially launched in July 2009 in Bordeaux in the presence of former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé; Lamia Chaffaï, Tunisian Secretary of State; Pierre Dartout, Interministerial Delegate of the Agency for Territorial Development and Competitiveness; Gilles Pennequin from the Union for the Mediterranean; and Bettina Laville, co-founder of ‘Comité 21’ – the French Committee for the Environment and Sustainable Development.
2009-2010: Eco-centres 2.0
Each year, the cluster will be working on a specific issue: The first one will be on eco-centres 2.0 – creating new communal urban centres for e-activities and sustainable development.
Richard Collin, founder of the cluster and director of the Enterprise 2.0 Institute at Grenoble Ecole de Management, explains: “Working differently to better ‘live’ cities and inventing new ways of creating resources have become vital for a balanced collective life that is in line with new human activities: e-activities, nomadic work, creation of value, strict time management, new and collaborative technologies 2.0…”
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