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for your diary!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color="blue" face="Verdana" size="4"><span
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lang="EN-GB">Shape the future of local government</span></font></b><b><font
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lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><font
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style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN-GB">2<sup>nd</sup> World Congress
of <st1:PersonName w:st="on">United Cities and Local Governments</st1:PersonName>
(UCLG)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><i><font
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lang="EN-GB">‘<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Changing cities are
driving our world</span></b>’</span></font></i><b><i><font
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style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"
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October 2007, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jeju</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">South Korea</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN-GB">With the title ‘Changing cities are driving our
world’, the themes of the next UCLG World Congress are organised
according to the priorities of local and regional authorities and the
challenges they face, notably:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font></b><!--[endif]--><b><font
color="black" face="Verdana"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN-GB">Cities the future of
humanity; addressing climate change<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color="black" face="Verdana" size="3"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font></b><!--[endif]--><b><font
color="black" face="Verdana"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN-GB">City diplomacy: Local
governments building peace<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font></b><!--[endif]--><b><font
face="Verdana"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN-GB">2015: A better world is
possible! Local governments in a new global governance<font
color="black"><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></p>
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face="Verdana" size="3"><span
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lang="EN-GB">The UCLG World Congress is a meeting point for the
world’s local governments and in 2007 takes place for the first time in
<st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. More than 2000 local leaders
from 150 countries
will be coming together with key international figures to debate key
issues for
local <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">and regional </span></font>government<font
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lang="EN-GB">Join us to help shape the local agenda for the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. </span></font></b><b><font face="Verdana" size="4"><span
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Francis F. MUGUET Ph.D
MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals
Associate Publisher
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ENSTA Paris, France
KNIS lab. Director
"Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS)
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World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wsis-si.org">http://www.wsis-si.org</a> chair
Patents & Copyrights : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wsis-pct.org">http://www.wsis-pct.org</a> co-chair
Financing Mechanismns : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wsis-finance.org">http://www.wsis-finance.org</a> web
UNMSP project : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.unmsp.org">http://www.unmsp.org</a>
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