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is also connected to two other crisis
allocation of resources within government
rooms. One of them is in the mayor’s
departments. Different departments
office and the other is at the Civil Defense
within the government should follow the
Service. The media room is where
continuity and integrity of the business
media representatives release real-time
process, and achieve collaboration and
continuous warning to the local people.
consultation within cross-sectoral, cross-
The establishment of communication
functional boundaries. From the point of
channels helps to improve the quality
the actors, there are vertical cooperation
of public policy, and also guarantee
between the higher and lower levels of
the transparency, accountability and
government, and horizontal cooperation
credibility. As part of the innovation
between governments at the same level,
in high efficiency management of the
or the different departments of the
municipal government, these projects are
same government hierarchy, as well as
necessary tools for Rio de Janeiro to be a
cooperation between inter-regional and
smart city in the future.
inter-governmental in concentrated form.
In an urbanizing world, for a city
As Rio established COR, it aims at
like Rio de Janeiro which faces many
solving defensive risk management, urban
challenges, such as the traffic which
operation, large-scale events, gathering
constraints more and more people, the
nearly 30 municipal departments, public
consequences of climate change and the
institutions, utility companies and
extreme weather conditions caused by a
government representatives. Buenos Aires
series of events, an operating center can
has set up an innovation and creativity
serve as a major strategic tool for Rio to
cooperation committee, which is a lateral
become a smart.
mechanism that is jointly participated by a plurality of cross-cutting areas of the government. Departments that conduct
Experience and Inspiration
cooperation in public policy innovation
1. Materialization of cross-
economy, department of entrepreneurship
sectoral cooperation
guidance, department of science and
projects are departments of innovative
Cross-sector governance aims at
technology guidance, department of
integrating the decentralized power
foreign trade guidance, secretariat
within the government which is separated
of residential sectors and inclusive
due to specialization, optimizing the
department, department of information