OPEN Cities MonitorOPEN Cities Monitor Benchmarking theBenchmarking the openness of cities openness of cities II CT URBA OPEN Cities Monitor Benchmarking the openness of cities 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 city 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 Auckland can get, in a snapshot, a hundreds of case studies that Barcelona city profile. Their profile is can help a city to improve its Beijing measured against the average openness. Users can find the How can openness Belfast 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 Bucharest selected to compare with. corresponding areas of the Openness cannot be Buenos Aires 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 Cardiff strengths and weaknesses in provides policy very complex phenomenon. Chongging the 11 areas. ecommendations and However, there are many Dublin outlines learning points for aspects of openness that can Duesseldorf How welcome is my city to the three policy themes: be observed and measured. Edinburgh international populations? Internationalisation, The OPENCities monitor London Are we doing the right efforts Leadership & Governance and includes 54 internationally Los Angeles to improve the infrastructure Managing diversity comparable indicators, Madrid and legislation? aggregated into 11 areas: Manchester 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 Nottingham 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 Sofia investments, develop actions populations and compete International flows Toronto plans and influence decisions. globally. Joining this data- Infrastructure Vienna 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 is a European exchange and learning programme promoting sustainable urban development. II T T It enables cities to work together to develop solutions to AC major urban challenges, reaffirming the key role they play URB in facing increasingly complex societal challenges. It helps them to develop pragmatic solutions that are new and sustainable, and that integrate economic, social and environmental dimensions. It enables cities to share good practices and lessons learned with all professionals involved in urban policy throughout Europe. URBACT is 300 cities, 29 countries, and 5,000 active participants. URBACT is co-financed by the ERDF Funds and the Member States. www.urbact.eu/opencities www.opencities.e u OPENCities is a British Council project funded by URBACT and led by Belfast City Council in collaboration with a network of European cities. The partner cities include Bilbao, Cardiff, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Nitra, Poznan, Sofia and Vienna..