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| The Mayor of Makassar, Moh. Ramdhan Pomanto talked in the ASEAN Summit Forum, Thursday (18/02/2016), in San Francisco, USA. (Photo Source: Makassar Office of Public Relation, 2016) |
Smartcitymakassar.com. --Makassar- The contemporary cities have been now facing complex problems than ever. Immigrations, aging population, youth unemployment, are some of city problems in European Union region. The climate change, energy and food rescue, and environment are the general problem around the world. These problems are complex and complicated since they are intertwined among them. Ones affect the others, directly or indirectly.
Some world organizations
or associations have been seriously striving to face these problems. Some of them have great concerns with future
city transformation as ways to goes through the contemporary problem. They found out and recognized that some
mayors around the world have innovative, great, outstanding and inspiring
efforts to develop their cities. In
order to share these innovative and best practices, gain knowledge, and
experience they invited mayors.
The
mayors are invited and asked for talks about their experiences. Prizes are also honored to the innovative and
outstanding mayors. The prizes tell that
there are mayors who are ready to work with complex and complicated future city
problems while bringing their communities' life livable and sustainable.
City Mayors
Foundations is a group of philanthropies that invites worldwide mayors to
“talk”. The foundation is an
international think tank. Their aim is
to encourage the mayors to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to some
contemporary city problems. These
problems are such governance, community, housings, transportation, education
and employment. All the efforts are put
into a World Mayor Project.
(To be continued)
