Presentation to INCA Super Connected Cities Seminar, Birmingham Dec 2014 Broadband, ftth, wireless, rural, urban, nga

1. City Challenges and Digital Infrastructure

2. Cities as problems or solutions?
• International economic
drivers
• Post-industrial decline and
regeneration in the UK
– social cohesion
– economic restructuring
– renewal of the physical
environment – design,
culture, energy
• The UK Core Cities Group

3. An urban world
Percent of global population living in cities
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4. Shifting global economy
In US $trillion

5. An ageing world

6. In the UK?

8. The Core Cities offer
We will deliver…
• More, better jobs, improved lives
• Outperform the economy
• Toward financial independence
• What it delivers
– 1.16m jobs, £222billion GVA
– By 2030 (HS2)
– Denmark’s entire economy
– Tackle unemployment
– Reduce high-dependency,
demand and costs
– Infrastructure improvements
We need support…
• Freedom to deliver more
• Back local leadership to join
things up
• Fiscal reforms and flexibilities
• 500,000 more graduates
• 500,000 more NVQ Level 2
• 250,000 more commuters
• £109 billion investment
• Single Funds for Single Plans
• ‘Place-based’ approach

9. The Future UK context:
Radical and creative Reforms for Sustainable
Cities (Funding and spending outlook for Core Cities)

10. Making the shift:
stick with the tea
or risk a coffee?
• Piecemeal, reactive solutions
• Short term gains and losses
• Blanket centralism
• Cut here, spend more there
• Declining investment
• Increased consumption
and widening poverty gap
• Strategic, evidenced masterplans
• Long-term competitiveness
• Spatially aware localism
• Joined-up public sector reform
• Innovative financing and fiscal
reform
• A new narrative of shared,
sustainable prosperity
From… To…

11. Transformation: components and barriers
• Sustainable economic models
• Human and social capital
• Outward looking - forward
thinking
• Prepared to change
• Strong public sphere,
governance and institutions
• Sense of self
• Leadership
• The right tools for the job