This episode delves into the complexities of advancing digital transitions in cities, highlighting the existing gap in leveraging technology to deliver enhanced services, foster inclusive growth across sectors and ensure digital equity for all residents. By exploring the complex nature of digitalization, we uncover the importance of these initiatives in fortifying cities and their communities against future uncertainties. The conversation is set in the context of the new publication titled “Cities that thrive: Public financial Innovation as a catalyst for urban resilience” prepared by StateUp in collaboration with Visa and Resilient Cities Network in the context of the “Future Ready Cities” program.
The Speakers
Daniel Sullivan
Tanya Filer
Lynette Lim
About Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan serves as the Director of Resilience in the City of Cape Town. In this role, he is responsible for developing the City’s resilience approach, which includes anticipatory planning, capacity building, adaptation, risk management, and business continuity. Over the past decade, he has held various important positions in the City, including his most recent role as the manager of the Strategic Policy Branch.
About Tanya Filer
Tanya Filer, PhD, developed the Digital State project at the University of Cambridge, and is Founder and CEO of StateUp. StateUp bridges the gap between the worlds of governance and technology, through the highest quality research, data, and learning products and services to address major policy areas, from climate change to disinformation. Tanya has worked widely with public sector and international organisations, technology companies and research institutes across Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East on shaping and delivering their digital governance, urban resilience, and technology policy agendas.
About Lynette Lim
Lynette Lim is the Global Director, Communications & Knowledge at the Resilient Cities Network. In her role, she is responsible for the development R-Cities’ global communications and knowledge strategies, and oversees the implementation with a team spread across our four regional offices in Singapore, the Netherlands, Mexico City and New York City. Through the communications and knowledge portfolios, Lynette ensures that network members have opportunities to share their successes and learn from one another, and advocates for the role cities play in tackling some of the greatest challenges of our times.
