On 19th and 20th November, the first and second day of the Sharing Cities Encounter, 2 private cities meetings and other open sessions took place. An opportunity for city representatives from different countries and continents to discuss new policies and propose actions regarding platform economy, being Short Term Rental Platforms and Data Access one of the focus.
20 cities attended this encounter: Amsterdam, Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, El Prat de Llobregat, Gothenburg, Grenoble, Lisbon, Maribor, Montreal, Moscow, NYC, Seoul, Stockholm, Taipei, The Hague, Umea, Vienna and Wroclaw. The Encounter 2019 adopted a more active/output-oriented approach to take the Declaration of Sharing Cities signed on 2018 even further.
Scroll down to download the presentations used by the speakers and don’t miss to check out the pictures of the Encounter.
| 19th Nov Cities Encounter 1: One year from last Sharing Cities Summit and the Declaration & Objectives for 2019/2020 (13:45 - 16:30h) | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 Welcome to Sharing Cities Action & Sharing Cities Encounter 2019 | |
| Alvaro Porro (Barcelona City Council) | |
| 14:15 - 14:45 Main developments on Sharing Cities Action | |
| Mayo Fuster Morell (Dimmons, IN3-UOC) | - Slides - For further information, see also the presentation at the Congress: Youtube, minute 1:25:14 to 1:38:33 - Report “An Overview of Public Policies of the Sharing Economy by Cities”, by Dimmons-UOC, July 2019. - Report “Über-influential? How the Gig Economy’s Lobbyists undermine Social and Workers Rights”, by Corporate Europe Observatory, September 2019 - Highlights from Kenneth Haar (Corporate Europe Observatory) for the Cities Encounter |
| 14:45 - 15:45 Highlights from cities: one year from last Sharing Cities Summit and the Declaration of Sharing Cities | |
| Amsterdam: Nanette Schippers, Senior policy advisor, Housing Department, Amsterdam City Council | Slides |
| Montreal: François Croteau, City Councillor, Responsible for the smart and digital city, Ville de Montreal. | Slides |
| Vienna: Klemens Himpele, Head of Department for Economic Affairs, Labour and Statistics, Vienna City Administration. | See the next session, 19th Nov 17:25 |
| 15:45 - 16:30 Program of objectives for 2020 & funding | 15:45 - 16:30 Program of objectives for 2020 & funding |
| Resulting outcome from the Encounter | |
| Funding: Intelligence Cities Challenge Programme. Ulla Engelmann (Head Unit of Advanced Technologies, Cluster and Social Economy, DG Grow - European Commission) | Slides |
| Next Sharing Cities Summit | |
| Debate and ideas of useful resources and common actions for 2019/2020 | |
| 19th Nov Sharing Cities Action Encounter: Cities & Ecosystem (17:00 - 18:30h) | |
| Live-writing notes | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 Welcome to Sharing Cities Stand Lab and Cities Encounter | |
| Mayo Fuster Morell (Dimmons IN3 UOC) Alvaro Porro (Barcelona City Council) | Slides Youtube, (minute 00:34 to 14:28) |
| 17:15 - 17:25 ESER, European Social Economy Regions | |
| Ulla Engelmann, Head Unit of Advanced Technologies, Cluster and Social Economy, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission | Youtube (minute 14:28 to 25:56) Video European Social Economy Regions (soon) |
| 17:25 - 17:35 “A European framework for regulatory responses to the collaborative economy” European Committee of the Regions and Cities positioning on collaborative economy. | |
| Klemens Himpele (Vienna City Administration) | - Slides - Opinion adopted by European Committee of the Regions - Youtube (minutes 25:56 to 32:45 and 43:24 to 45:53) |
| 17:45 - 18:05 Viable Cities - Sharing Cities Sweden: Urban Sharing | |
| Kes McCormick (Lund University, Sharing Cities Sweden), Charlie Gullström (Viable Cities, Stockholm), Alex Jonsson (Evo Things, Stockholm), Tove Lund (Gothenburg City Council), Philip Näslund (Umea City Council) | Youtube (minute 47:05 to 1:04:48) |
| Actions resulting from Declaration of Sharing Cities and coming Sharing Cities agenda (Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Seoul) | |
| Alvaro Porro (Barcelona City Council), Mayo Fuster Morell (Dimmons IN3 UOC) Nanette Schippers (Amsterdam City Council) Lucy Joffe (City of New York) Lee Jung-hoon (Seoul Metropolitan Government) | |
| 20th Nov Cities Encounter 2: City Sovereignty & Access to Data (14:15 - 16:30) | |
| 14:30 - 14:40 Welcome to City Sovereignty & Access to Data | |
| Álvaro Porro and Eva Mur (Barcelona City Council) Mayo Fuster (Dimmons IN3 UOC) | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 Presentation of Study on “Data Policies & Strategies, with a focus on Short Term Rental Platforms” | |
| Murray Cox (Inside Airbnb, collaborator of Dimmons IN3 UOC) | Slides See also the presentation at the Congress: Youtube, minute 1:48:31 |
| 15:10 - 15:40 Cities lobbying European institutions on Data & Short Term Rental | |
| Albert Eefting (City of Amsterdam, coordinator of the European cities network on short term holiday rental) | Slides of the meeting (Short version) See also the presentation at the Congress: Slides long version, Youtube minute 1:38:33 |
| 15:40 - 16:30 Debate: Setting-up the basis for a coordinated negotiation with platforms | |
| Eva Mur, Head of Inspection Services Barcelona City Council | Slides Agreements and other material (soon) |
