Citizen Action lab for Safe and Inclusive Cities

Goal – Action lab for citizens to develop a framework of indicators for Safe and Inclusive Cities

Session description:
Cities often lack disaggregated data for decision making and indicators for measuring performance. In order to effectively implement projects on safe and inclusive cities, it is critical to co-create and develop a multi-sectoral process for identifying indicators and collecting data to measure success. Through this action lab we will understand some of the existing frameworks and good practices in community organizing for engaging civic authorities in local change.

Session Objectives:
– Identify existing indicators for safe and inclusive cities & put a spotlight on organizations and leaders leading such efforts
– Crowdsource Citizen indicators for safe and inclusive communities on a collaborative web app.
– Invite citizens to drive change in their communities by drafting, endorsing and implementing these indicators via citizen Manifesto

Register – bit.ly/CitizensActionLab 

Dates: 10 and 11 Sep
Time: 05:00 – 08:30 pm IST / 01:30 – 05:00 pm CET / 07:30 -11:00 am EDT

Agenda (all times below are in IST)
10 Sep
0500 – 0515 pm – Welcome, Introduction and Context setting of the UTC Day 1 by ElsaMarie DSilva – Red Dot Foundation and Prathima Manohar – The Urban Vision
0515 – 0530 pm – Keynote on Urban Social and Environment Index by Dr Angel Hsu (Yale NUS /Data Driven Lab )
0530 – 0615 pm – Fireside chats with experts. Hitesh Vaidya – NIUA, Arpan Mazumder – GIZ India, Carme Gual – Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation on Indicators on #actionforcities

5 min bio break

0620 – 0630 – Setting context by Elsa/Prathima on the action lab
0630 – 0710 – 4 experts present their safe city indicators based on theme – Kalpana Viswanath (Safetipin), Harish Iyer (The Jimme Foundation), Harish Kotian (NAB India), Dr Pamela Wridt
0710 – 0750 – Break Out Sessions – participants divided by theme into smaller groups. Experts to guide their thoughts and provide material if necessary
• Disabled Friendly Cities (NAB India) (Rising Flame)
• Women Friendly Cities (Safetipin) (Safecity)
• Children Friendly Cities (Dr Pamela Wridt) (NIUA)
• LGBT+ Cities (Harish Iyer) (Abheena)
0750 – 0830 – Report back from groups/ Experts give their views on the collaborative document feedback on indicators.

11 Sep
0500 – 0515 pm – Welcome, Introduction and Context setting of the UTC Day 2 by ElsaMarie DSilva – Red Dot Foundation and Prathima Manohar – The Urban Vision
0515 – 0530 pm – Keynote on Citizen Manifesto by Isabelle Anguelovski, ICTA-UAB and Member Manifesto Pollen
0530 – 0615 pm – Fireside chats with experts Namrata Kilpady – change.org, Sahil Sasidharan – GIZ India, Pranav Naik

5 min bio break

0620 – 0630 – Setting context by Elsa/Prathima on the action lab
0630 – 0710 – 4 experts present their safe city indicators based on theme – Supriya Jaan (CORO India), Sharad Mahajan (Mashal), Rohit Shinkre, Sudeept Maiti (WRI)
0710 – 0750 – Break Out Sessions – participants divided by theme into smaller groups. Experts to guide their thoughts and provide material if necessary
• Inclusive Housing (Shelter Associates & Mashal)
• Inclusive Mobility (WRI)
• Enabling Informal Economy & Markets (Rohit Shinkre)
• Inclusive Social & Health Infrastructure (CORO India)
0750 – 0830 – Report back from groups/ Experts give their views on the collaborative document feedback on community manifesto.

5 October – Participants can present what they have been able to achieve.