E-Dialogues
Urban Update connects digitally for dialogue, knowledge-sharing COVID-19 pandemic impelled poeple to make multiple changes in their daily lives. Going digital for work, meetings and learning was one of many changes. The role of efficient and robust urban development had increased manifold after the COVID-19 as it displayed the shortcomings in the civic services of cities. Urban Update undertook the initiative of organising webinars to promote dialogue and discussion among key stakeholders in uban domain to help build resilient urban spaces
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s part of this initiative, Urban Update collaborated with numerous organisations and put together a total of 50+ webinars as part of diverse series. These Webinars ranged from transportation, health, pandemic management, localising SDGs, women empowerment to disaster mitigation with participation of over 5000 people in audience and 200+ experts.
E-dialogues Urban Update, the magazine published by the AIILSG, organised several webinars on topics including ‘COVID-19 and the Search for a Vaccine’ to ‘Urbanisation in Independent India’. The panelists for the webinars included eminent dignitaries like Dr Animesh Kumar, Deputy Head (AsiaPacific), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction; Dr Sewa Ram, Professor of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; and Vimlendu Jha, Founder, Sweccha India. Covering a wide range of topics from unemployment to the environment, from the National Education Policy to Housing for All, E-Dialogues served as a platform for detailed discussion and deliberation between experts, policy makers and general public.
Mayors’ Dialogue Under this series, Urban Update, in collaboration with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, organised two Mayors’s Dialogues online. The main aim of this series was to provide a platform to Mayors from across the country to come together, and discuss and share their experiences of handling the pandemic as severe as the COVID-19. Panelists for this series included Sanyukta Bhatia, Mayor, Lucknow; Sanjeev Bittu, Mayor, Patiala; Dilip Kumar Agasty, Mayor, Durgapur; Uday Madkaikar, Mayor, Goa among others. The topic for the first edition was ‘Making Cities Pandemic Resilient: The Role of Elected Representatives’ and the second edition was ‘Leadership and Pandemic Response’.
June 2022 www.aiilsg.org
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