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An American Blueprint for Smarter Cities Arrives in France
Bloomberg Philanthropies teams up with French cities trying to break out of the national mold.
Can an American organization teach the French to run their cities better? This month, Bloomberg Philanthropies are moving into as yet uncharted territory by extending their Innovation Team program to France for the first time, with a mission to make France’s public sector “more inventive, agile, and suited to the needs of citizens”.
The program which already has twenty cities in its network—a far-flung constellation of municipalities stretching from Anchorage to Jerusalem. Now Bloomberg has teamed up with French urban lab 27e Région (“27th Region” in English) to extend the program to its first European outposts.