2 days of exchange and creativity, projects and actions

There are less than 3500 days left until 2020 to carry out Europe's aims: lower our energy consumption by a least 20% without altering the quality of life shared by all. To do this we have to reinvent cities, change the economy, enter fully into knowledge economy, lessen our impact on the environment... A number of questions arise: their answers must be built together and all conférence de Copenhague sur le climat adds up to a good reason to be present at this first Green & Connected Cities Forum, in a network value creation approach and in new generation clusters.

This is particularly true at a local level, close to the public and its needs. It is in the heart of towns and territories that the potential for using these electronic networks for sustainable development emerges.

ACIDD has taken this initiative as an emergency:

• The Copenhagen Climate Conference will be an important moment of mobilisation and will pose the questions of technology uses.
• The European thematic network ICT21 for Energy Efficiency (10 countries) will present its first results in Strasbourg in December.
• The Prix de la croissance verte numérique (Award for Green Digital Growth) was the first time all ministers involved got together: OSEO, ADEME, MEDEF and the digital trade-association (99 projects and developments)... The Web2.0 and Serious Game call for projects in the framework of the recovery plan have seen the birth of a number of projects on the stakes of sustainable development. Proxima Mobile supported by DUI will make it possible for Web2.0 services to appear especially on smart phones. Moreover, the Great loan Commission itself clearly shows its digital and sustainable ambition.
• In 2009 DIACT and ACIDD put forward 37 proposals for Territorial Digital Development (TIC21)
• The Green and Connected Cities Cluster set up and led by ACIDD and the Grenoble School of Management is now in place. It will hold in Strasbourg a work meeting and present its work, and will open its coproduction workshops. (It is made up of 7 French cities, Mediterranean and northern European towns and big firms such as Cisco, Orange, Renault, Schneider, Veolia, associated with institutions such as the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Environment Agency, research bodies, NGO).
• Clean Tuesday present each month projects and developments... Blogs like GreenIT have appeared, books have been published.
• Reports are published by the Government (DETIC...), professionals publish figures and aims (SMART 2010 du GeSI, IDATE/French Telecom Federation...).