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This tool was developed by the British Council and BAK What is openness? The data The OPENCities Case Studies & Policy Basel in collaboration with the Monitor Recommendations Urbact Group but not financed “Openness is the capacity of The data has been collated in under Urbact Framework II. a to attract international 2010, using most up-to-date The OPENCities Monitor is a Developed as a working populations and to enable available sources. It currently unique collaboration & learning tool, the OPENCities Monitor them to contribute to the includes 26 cities from different tool which measures cities’ offers practical examples future success of the city” continents. We aim to include openness, avoiding ranking to and ideas that are successful 100 cities by 2012. See Understanding OPENCities, eliminate negative competition. and can easily be adapted published by British Council in With this online tool users and used. We have reviewed 2010 can get, in a snapshot, a hundreds of case studies that city profile. Their profile is can help a city to improve its measured against the average openness. Users can find the How can openness results of the 26 cities and case studies related to their be measured? Bilbao against the group of cities search just by clicking on the selected to compare with. corresponding areas of the Openness cannot be They receive an immediate graphs generated by the tool. observed or measured directly. Cape Town and easy to use insight of their The OPENCities Monitor also It is a multi-dimensional and strengths and weaknesses in provides policy very complex phenomenon. Chongging the 11 areas. ecommendations and However, there are many outlines learning points for aspects of openness that can Duesseldorf How welcome is my city to the three policy themes: be observed and measured. international populations? Internationalisation, The OPENCities monitor Are we doing the right efforts Leadership & Governance and includes 54 internationally to improve the infrastructure Managing diversity comparable indicators, and legislation? aggregated into 11 areas: Are we hosting more or less New York international events than The future Migration Newcastle similar cities? Freedom Nitra OPENCities will develop into a Barriers of entry Policy makers, researchers quality standard (kite-mark) - a Quality of living Poznan and journalists can use new marketing tool for cities International presence Sao Paulo the results to promote willing to attract international Education investments, develop actions populations and compete International flows plans and influence decisions. globally. Joining this data- Infrastructure The tool is: set allows usage of the International events Publicly available online at OPENCities kite-mark and is a Standard of living A large number of official www.opencities.eu public statement that the city Diversity Actions sources (international, national, Easy to use believes and is willing to regional or city statistics) have Very Flexible work towards openness. These areas are grouped been surveyed to collate data, into three policy themes: including private and public, national and local data-sets. Internationalisation, Contact details Leadership & Governance and Carolina Jiménez Managing diversity. [email protected] Marc Bros the Puechredom [email protected] www.opencities.eu URBACT II OPENCities isaBritishCouncil project fundedbyURBACT andledby BelfastCityCouncil incollaboration withanetwork of European cities. The partner citiesinclude Bilbao, Cardiff,Vienna. Dublin, Düsseldorf, Nitra, Poznan, Sofia and URBAC www.opencities.e www.urbact.eu/opencities It pr major in them sus envir pr involved 300 U Member RBA enables omo ac f acing ta cities, ti onmental i ce nable, to CT urban ting sust T s develop St isa incr in is cities at an 29 urban

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