About The Commons Media Lab
The Commons Media Lab (CML) is LabGov’s platform for debate on the complex challenges that communities around the world are facing today. The CML brings together policy-makers, researchers, citizens and experts to reflect on a variety of themes relating to commons-based practices, exploring case studies, innovative urban policies, partnerships aimed at producing positive impacts on the community.
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Assessing Continuity versus Change: The problem of Choosing and Adapting different deliberative and participatory tools to different contexts
By Dr. Sofia Eliodori Innovating the European democracies and democratic practices around Europe is considered one of the main challenges to driving our system and values in the XXI century, renewing our institutions, and making them able to face the issues of...
Blockchain and sustainable finance: how smart contracts integrate technological innovation and sustainability
Introduction Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that has transformed several industries, including financial transactions, supply chain management, healthcare, electronic voting systems and even the sustainable energy sector. Blockchain is essentially a...
Building Affordable Futures: The Role of Plank Road Community Land Bank and Trust
Urban affordability is an issue cities all over the world grapple with. Emerging from first the foreclosure crisis in 2008 and now COVID-19, many cities are facing an ongoing and more severe problem: the lack of quality affordable housing. Compounded by...
The Sunrise of Water Era: Innovating governance towards sustainable water management
By Marijana Krstić Water shapes every facet of our world: it is essential part of life we use daily - life giving, and sometimes a brutal force of nature - contested and destructive. As a shared resource, it could both unite and divide us. Management of this...
BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION An opportunity or a risk? By Leonardo Ortenzi Introduction The following article is intended to illustrate and analyze the main argument of the Blockchain Technology, focusing on making an examination of this technology...
Paving the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: Insights from Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria
In a world grappling with the challenges of climate change and energy sustainability, it is imperative for nations to reassess their energy strategies. The thesis, titled "Critical Analysis of the Future of Energy Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Just Energy...
The Law on Nature Restoration: An Innovative Stride Towards Environmental Regeneration
The Law on Nature Restoration originates from an extensive consultative phase between the European Commission and various stakeholders, following the publication of the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 in 2021. The preceding strategy had achieved modest results: a...
Using Digital Means to Equip Urban Communities for Climate Resilience
By Ibrahim Ali Obid Birima Abstract Fostering social innovation and sustainable governance practices is crucial in a time of rising urbanization and urgent climate change issues. The interplay of social innovation, digital technology, and climate resilience...
How ESG has changed modern finance
Edoardo Mollo Introduction The ESG criteria represent a set of very important indicators that allow the analysis of a company or a State taking into account not only the financial aspects but also the environmental, social and governance factors. The acronym...
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Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute is a platform incubated by LabGov.City to promote urban journalism as a tool to put forms of sustainable and inclusive development at the center of the current conversation on cities and their governance. The Institute aggregates journalists, communicators, experts and policymakers to share knowledge about, and debate on urban topics, as well as assist regional, national and local governments, NGOs, and foundations in the communication of urban strategies and projects on the field.
The Urban Journalism Institute is co-directed by Simone d’Antonio and Alessandra Pirera in partnership with UN-Habitat and other LabGov.City partners such as Luiss University and Georgetown University.
What we do?
• Trainings for journalists, communicators s and press officers
• High-level dialogues with editors
• Management of urban communications
• Media monitoring and networking
• Urban reportages and portfolios
• Media tours
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Changing the conversation about cities
Cities are the places where most of the challenges of our time are converging. Innovative solutions and experiences of urban governance and economy shared and discussed in a multilevel dimension can be influential in changing the approach to cities in national and local contexts worldwide.
Media have a decisive role in promoting urban debates at all levels. While they cover urgent contemporary trends, sharing news about economic crisis, refugees and migrants’ emergencies, women struggles, or natural disasters, they are talking about how cities are planned, managed and lived.
Exploring new communications tools to develop meaningful urban storytelling will contribute to spread new narratives about cities able to foster active participation of citizens and to push innovative social, economic and environmental urban policies. In this sense, cities are becoming the testing ground also to stimulate a more civic and substantive engagement of media in sustainable development processes at local and global level.