A seminar was held yesterday at the Pavilion of Future on the Expo site to review the Brazilian city Porto Alegre's ambition of creating a better urban life for residents via good urban transport management and green information technologies.
Porto Alegre, a port in southern Brazil with a population of 1.43 million, has an Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA) project at the ongoing World Expo Shanghai 2010, illustrating this ambition themed "Local Solidarity Governance Implementation in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Strategies for Social Inclusion Promotion."
The project features the Brazilian city's participatory budget program - a social reform effort to pursue the real needs of the urban society.
At yesterday's seminar, Porto Alegre gave its solutions to a better urban life - good public transport services and green technologies.
For example, the city set up unified charging standards to avail fairer and cheaper public transport services to the residents.
And to reduce the pollution and waste, side effects of the technology development, it launched the PROCEMPA project to promote environmentally-friendly information technologies.
Marcos Eduardo dos Santos, financial managing director of Companhia Carris Porto-Alegrense (CARRIS), and Andre Imar Kullzynski, president of PROCEMPA, joined yesterday's seminar.
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