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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SUSTAINABILITY IN SUPPLY CHAINS: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS
JOHN MANUWA LAW, DIGITAL INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY STUDENT The concept of sustainability in supply chains holds profound significance in addressing environmental and social challenges in today's interconnected global economy. Supply chains, serving as vital...
Repurposing Food Waste For More Sustainable Community
Repurposing Food Waste For More Sustainable Community No hunger, from waste to wellness, transformational impact, community connection, resource sharing By Joyce Chow, The Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong...
Bottom-up Energy Initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa
The fact that more than 60 percent of the 1.11 billion people living in SSA are under 30 raises both development potential and energy demand, which current energy systems cannot meet adequately. Extensive research shows that community-based energy systems may...
The paradigm of adaptive governance compared to multi-level governance
What is usually employed to explain institutional interactions is multi-level governance (MLG) theory, which focuses on governmental levels and responsibilities, as well as coordination. The paradigm of adaptive governance (AG) is instead thought to delve into the...
Public demand as a lever for innovation and sustainable development: insights from Italy
There are two objectives that the public administration can be called upon to reconcile and/or integrate in the field of innovation: on the one hand, the interest in developing the innovation ecosystem, territorial or otherwise (the enabling state)[1], also and above...
The engagement of citizens in research for cities: the Citizer Science project by Emilia-Romagna
Abstract Citizen science is an innovative approach to scientific research, including ordinary people without special qualifications in order to help the work of scientists for the common good. Considering the potential of citizen science projects not only for the...
Defining vulnerable communities vis-à-vis climate change
Introduction As observed recently by the Italian National Committee for Bioethics, it may be said that the concept of vulnerability has neither a clear linguistic definition nor a precise ethical or legal status. Perhaps it is also for this reason that, over...
The transparency of urban commons as a civic activation tool for Alajuelita city
by Margherita Valle https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-6770 Urban commons are essential to the vitality of any city. They serve not only as public spaces but also as catalysts for local development and technological innovation. This allows for greater...
Building collaborations at the peri-urban interface: brokering to support community-led revitalisation
By Williams, J.M., Chu, V.H.Y., Lam. W.F., and Law, W.W.Y. The Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Worldwide, rural areas are experiencing significant changes due to urbanisation and globalisation. Many...
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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.