Appendix 9_City Labs Report

Draft Report v1.0

‒ Ongoing re-training and upskilling – AI

Belonging

‒ Diversity and Demographic Change needs to be reflected in organisations ‒ Community belonging – large volume of work for community capacity and funding for community resources on a multi- annual basis to allow communities to plan for themselves

Inclusiveness

‒ Community networks/employers ‒ Suburbia focus ‒ Inclusion of migrants ‒ Cork won’t grow if isn’t welcoming

Neighbourhood level

‒ Building communities ‒ City Development Plan and IAPs (3k people ideal) ‒ Funding / planning structure ‒ More neighbourhood level planning ‒ Good regeneration plan for Knocknaheeny ‒ Climate aspect ‒ Commercial aspect ‒ Evolving/changing travel demands – how to address?

Regional connections

EU

‒ Risk aversion ‒ Ready made opportunities (international)

‒ More testing on the ground ‒ Capacity/lack of collaboration

Global / Local

‒ City autonomy ‒ Liveable cities ‒ Dealing with crisis/pandemics ‒ UN > National > local – but UN ? capacity of cities

INTERNAL FOCUSSED

Staffing and Culture

‒ Vacancies ‒ Need for more diversity ‒ Skills gap ‒ Recruiting policy ‒ Lack of communication ‒ Risk aversion ‒ Silo ling of information ‒ Too top down ‒ Representative of city

Communications

‒ Social media demands ‒ More communities being heard less? ‒ Website, app, socials – working? ‒ Return to townhall, livestreamed?

‒ Internal comms – global email, intranet working? ‒ Inclusion in comms, be more proactive with migrants

Changing political landscape

‒ Need far more diversity

Expectations

‒ Managing expectations ‒ Pace of change ‒ Increased legislation ‒ Increased reporting

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