Smarter New York City

Smarter Cities

Our Goal To help local governments, city administrations and municipalities: Map their own administration innovation ecosystem. Identify development opportunities in priority areas for administrations and citizens. Develop innovation agendas and road-maps based on existing internal innovation drivers. Build smarter public-private partnerships and new funding mechanisms based on incremental development and quick wins. Make their programs …

Capacity Development

As part of the Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, the Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MPA-DP), which André Corrêa d’Almeida co-directs, develops educational curriculum and programs on sustainable development and development practice for both grad level and executive training programs. The MPA-DP collaborates with different schools on and off Columbia …