The challenges of governance in Latin America are numerous and complex, especially when considering the high levels of distrust, disaffection and frustration that citizens experience towards their institutions. According to the Latinobarómetro 2020 survey, only 20% of Latin Americans trust their political institutions, and according to the United Nations Program, the average level of trust […]
“La Rolita” is a state-owned company promoted by the Mayor’s Office that, by means of electric buses, offers new routes in neighborhoods that are difficult to access in the Colombian capital. It also proposes to break down gender stereotypes and to promote environmental sustainability.
Traditional urban planning has favored “concentric” layouts with a central core surrounded by suburbs and arable land. But one researcher proposes that cities should be planned to be “rough”. What does this model consist of and what benefits can it bring to a city’s environment and even its food security?
From CILA we built a repository of useful resources that makes available tools to democratize innovation in the cities of the South and work towards a democratic, collaborative and transformative governance. We did not set out to invent the wheel but to map existing resources that were valuable and the mission is not over yet.
Last March 13,985 signatures were filed in the Senate of the Republic with the purpose of declaring a national emergency due to the increase in femicides and other violence against women. According to the Observatory of Feminicides in Colombia 619 women were murdered and in this year 2023 35 cases have been registered [1]. Although […]
India, the world’s third largest producer of this type of waste, has banned the manufacture and circulation of 19 products since July. The municipality of Tamil Nadu, with 80 million inhabitants, had done so three years earlier and served as a reference: it reduced the consumption of single-use plastics by two thirds, but there are […]
What does it mean to inhabit the city? Are these conglomerates really synonymous with progress and development? How can we reimagine our lives in cities? If you are in Buenos Aires, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to participate in an exhibition that asks these questions.
We tend to define things by what they are not, comparing them with their opposites. In the case of cities, urban is defined in opposition to rural. This only reduces the complexity of cities. In the collective imagination, the urban is associated with all the vortex that makes the city: pollution, buildings, cement, manifestations, chaos. […]
Last Sunday, January 8, barely a week after Lula took office for the third time as president of Brazil, a historic uprising took place in the Brazilian capital as a form of attempted coup d’état and delegitimization of the new presidency. The events were staged by “sympathizers” of former president Jair Bolsonaro who, shouting “Victory […]
During the month of October, CILA was present at Demo.Reset, an initiative coordinated by Extituto (members of the Consortium) that aims to transform the landscape of democracy in the Global South (especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, India and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe). During a 10-day Lab, participants worked on prototypes to address barriers […]
