UCLG is the most important international organisation of local authorities in the world. It is made up of individual municipalities and cities and national associations of municipalities and is recognised by the United Nations. It is the official contact between the local governments and the United Nations and the world information source regarding local governments and their associations.
A political assembly that allows local and regional entities to be active inside the European Union so that regional and local representatives can be involved in preparing new EU legislation and to collaborate at the levels of government closest to the citizens.
The European Council of Municipalities and Regions was set up in 1951 by a group of European mayors and the regions were subsequently invited to participate. It is currently the largest organisation of regional and local governments in Europe. Its members are national associations of cities, municipalities and regions from over 30 countries. It represents over 100,000 regional and local authorities. It?s the UCLG European section.
The Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations (FLACMA) is the voice and representative of Latin American municipalities, of all local governments and their National Municipalities Associations of Latin America. Its purpose is to foster strong and democratic autonomous local governments in Latin America. It is the Latin American Section of the UCLG.
The Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE) was founded in October 1997 with the aim of consolidating the representation of European regions and nations with legislative power within the new framework of the European Union.
The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) is an Association of Local Entities representing a total of over 6,900 Spanish municipalities. The FEMP is also the Spanish Section of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CMRE) and the official headquarters of the Latin American Organization of Inter-municipal Cooperation (OICI).
EUDEL is an Association whose members include practically all the Municipalities in the Basque Autonomous Community and various town councils from the Autonomous Community of Navarre.
Eurocities is a network that brings together the local governments of more than 120 large cities in over 30 European countries.
Citynet is a Regional Network of Local Authorities based in Yokohama, Japan. It came into being with the vision of bringing cities together. It promotes relations between local governments and their national counterparts, NGOs and international organisations.
The Union of Latin American Capital Cities (UCCI) is an international non-governmental and non-profit municipal organisation.
IT4ALL is a decentralized cooperation network of local authorities aiming to reach an inclusive information society as the use of ICTs is a key tool for the development. The IT4ALL network of local authorities for the Information Society established by municipalities, cities and regions, local authorities associations and networks served as an instrument for the participation of local authorities in the process of the World Summit on the Information Society.
Global Cities Dialogue (GCD) is a worldwide network of cities, which are interested in realising their potential for creating an information society free of social exclusion and based on sustainable development. It works on the premise that cities have a key role to play in the information society. Created in November 1999, it is a political platform to share knowledge and experiences.
Founded in 1998, the European Regional Information Society Association is the only European association established with the specific goal of supporting regions so that they can use the opportunities offered by the information society in order to achieve regional development and growth. IANIS, the Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society, is coordinated by eris@. The main aims of the IANIS+ programme are to further develop inter-regional networking and to animate, and further develop the e-Region Hub (developed under IANIS), creating new tools to develop information resources for regional information and knowledge-based society development in support of policy analysis for policy makers and practitioners working in the context of the Structural Funds and the knowledge-based society.
Telecities was founded as part of the Eurocities framework in 1993 and it is a network of European cities committed to leading the knowledge and information society. It is a platform of 127 local authorities from 20 European countries to share knowledge and experiences.
URB-AL is a European Commission decentralised cooperation programme that cover the main spheres of urban policy and is aimed at the local groups of the European Union and Latin America, as well as other players in the urban sector.
Network no. 13 is an URB-AL project that was selected by the European Commission. The theme is ?City and Information Society?, which the city of Bremen is coordinating.
The Global Alliance for ICT and Develompent (GAID) is an United Nations initiative that promotes worldwide the use of ICT as a tool for the development. The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID). Recognizing that no single actor is capable of achieving the MDGs in isolation, the creation of an open and inclusive platform that can broaden the dialogue on innovative ways of harnessing ICT for advancing development is crucial.
UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research is and independent organism inside the UNO.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research is an independent entity within the United Nations. UNITAR is the instrument chosen by the UN to ensure the participation of local authorities from around the world in the WSIS. It has a Decentralised Cooperation Programme and it has set up the International Training Centre for Local Authorities (CIFAL), a training programme aimed at people involved at a local level.
Politically independent institution that represents and defends the interests of the European Union overall, proposes legislation, policies and action programmes and is in charge of applying the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.