Join us this Friday, 3 April 2020, for the City Resilience Stories Webinar Series. For the first edition "COVID-19: Coping, Learning & Building Urban Resilience", the CROs from Quito and Milan will be sharing their experiences in coping with the pandemic bit.ly/2UOtGT7

"Now more than ever, we must abandon the performative and embrace the authentic. Our essential mental shifts require humility and patience." The most useful& humble article I've read so far since the lockdown. Thanks Dr Aisha Ahmad via The Chronicle of Higher Education bit.ly/2WYM8ez

🌍#Maps & Facts: #Handwashing is one of the top preventive measures recommended to reduce the spread of #coronavirus. Yet, more than one-third of West Africans have no handwashing facility at home oe.cd/2Wh #COVID19WestAf #COVID19 #stopthespread

The end of the lockdown - a test for the #smartcity? "Whatever strategy is chosen, the Asian experiences (Korea, Singapore, China) suggest that even partial deconfinement will be structured around an inseparable “test/data/distance” triptych" via La Fabrique de la Cité Cécile Maisonneuve

"In these moments it doesn't matter if we are Romanians or Italians." This Romanian team of doctors and nurses have been in Italy for the past week, helping their Italian colleagues respond to the #Coronavirus. This was coordinated and co-funded by the EU. #StrongerTogether

D. Eggers& all its beauty via New York Times Opinion "It’s just like how we all pulled together in WWII,every element of society, w/ common purpose&shared sacrifice. This is just like that, except instead of coordination,we have competition, instead of common cause,we have acrimony&chaos"

Pretty excited about this one. @GlobalGreenNewDeal webinar today MAY 19 5PM GMT +2 w/ Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein “Into the Portal, Leave No One Behind” globalgnd.org/into-the-porta…

Thanks for sharing this Lea Simpson These days, we cannot have enough of clean easy tips to take care of ourselves #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

#WUF10 Cécile Maisonneuve La Fabrique de la Cité said: "A city allows you to write your story in a way you couldn't foresee, for all the opportunities it gives you” The question I'm asking now: what is a city without the chance encounters, the oportunities, the unexpected interactions?

ASToN cities across Africa are at different stages of C-19 response To frame our conversations as a network, we have started using the 3 horizons that ASToN cities are facing These are the 3 realities they are having to consider at the same time: 1. React 2. Stabilise 3. Recover

Looking forward to Tt(time travel) wild card

We had a big week for ASToN - celebrated the end of Explore phase & kicked-off Engagement. 11 cities/11 countries, +60 persons. Above - a strong commitment to transform our cities in better places to live& work through digital&tech. Thank you all for being part of the journey!

[WEBINAR] We’re going live tomorrow w/ #Lagos #Bamako #Matola discussing digital transition, #SmartCities & #Covid_19. Join us on 11.09 at 7.45 GMT, register here zoom.us/meeting/regist…

« Les villes doivent se positionner comme plateformes pour l’innovation. Les solutions qu’elles cherchent sont souvent déjà là » Simina Lazar de ASToN network aux Journées de la ville francophone numérique de AIMF #AIMF2020

📢Do you have a good knowledge of communication & capitalisation tools? A knowledge of sustainable #UrbanDevelopment? We are looking for someone to support us in designing our #KnowledgeCapturing & sharing strategy 👇 bit.ly/35b3ibZ #smartcities Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 URBACT

...and the gap in performance between cities and rural areas is larger in Africa than other parts of the world - underscoring the importance of Africa's cities for development.

Mike Bloomberg opening the #citylab in Amsterdam on city managers’ need have to COPY-EDIT-PASTE from one another in a context of ever limited resources. Bloomberg Cities

& the future of the city needs to be more fun! Bloomberg Cities

Bring on those digital activists!

Beautiful job description about the work of a Mayor « manager of hope and master lof collective action » by Claudia López Hernández Bogota Mayor #citylab2022 Bloomberg Cities