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Virtual interview with the municipality authorities

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We've sent an email to the municipality but they never answered.

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The Municipality of Olhão has, since January 2023, been on the board of the “Smart Cities” Municipalities Section of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities.

The Smart Tour will soon be created, a tour that will cover various municipalities and intermunicipal communities across the country, so that mayors can learn about and share the good practices developed in the national territory in this matter.

Ricardo Calé from Olhão City Council said: “the digital transition is, perhaps, the greatest goal of this generation, and it is crucial to put technology at the service of quality of life in cities, even making use of community funds made available for this area . In Olhão, this work has been done, in the sense of using technology to make our city increasingly friendly to people”.

The European Union defines Smart Cities as “a set of systems and people interacting intelligently, using energy, materials, services and resources in a sustainable way”.

In general terms, it can be said that smart cities are those that invest in technology to improve municipal management and provide their citizens with a better quality of life and sustainability of spaces.

The strong concentration of population in cities poses a number of challenges to municipal management, namely with regard to pollution, car traffic, housing or access to services.

In Olhão, examples of these measures are the creation of the Occurrence Management Platform (https://ocorrencias.cm-olhao.pt/), the implementation of light mobility in the city, video surveillance, provision of free Wi-Fi in various areas of city, or the modernization of public lighting through the use of LED lighting with telemetry.

The Municipality is already working on the implementation of smart parking, as well as the use of artificial intelligence to optimize urban waste collection routes

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Smart bus application - shows position of city busses in real time

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Smart traffic light - shows time until the green light, so drivers can switch off the engines. That can reduce carbon in the air

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Smart bench in the shopping center

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Smart garage in the city center Nis

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Smart parking in shopping center Nis

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ İZMİR , TURKEY                                                                                        Yes,our city is a smart city. There are many smat devices, we can use solar energy. For example ,we can charge our phones on the benches with solar panels, we can know when the electric bus will arrive with the quark code. We use the wind to produce energy , so we save a lot of things .

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ İZMİR , TURKEY                                                                                        Yes,our city is a smart city. There are many smat devices, we can use solar energy. For example ,we can charge our phones on the benches with solar panels, we can know when the electric bus will arrive with the quark code. We use the wind to produce energy , so we save a lot of things .

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Benches that charge technological devices with solar energy.

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ZEYNEP İZMİR/TÜRKİYE ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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ZEYNEP İZMİR/TÜRKİYE ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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GENERATİNGT ELECTRİCİTY WİTH SOLAR ENERGY

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ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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We Can Produce Energy From The Wind With These Wind Roses.

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ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ İZMİR,TURKİYE

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP LİSESİ İZMİR,TURKİYE

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EMERGENCY BUTTON

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP  LİSESİ İZMİR, TURKİYE

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Elif.S..1 ŞEHİT POLİS KAĞAN KILIÇ ANADOLU İMAM HATİP  LİSESİ İZMİR, TURKİYE

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We have sent the request to the municipality for the interview, but no luck for now. Still waiting for the answer

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Niš is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in the southern part of Serbia.
Several Roman emperors were born in Niš or used it as a residence: Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. Later playing a prominent role in the history of the Byzantine Empire, the city's past would earn it the nickname Imperial City.

https://visitnis.org/

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Milica M., Djordje B., Gimnazija “9.maj”, Nis

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Milica M., Djordje B., Gimnazija “9.maj”, Nis

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Here is our wonderful city ❤

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İletişim Fakültesi İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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Building a SMART ecosystem in Lori's Debet village

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi.

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi.

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Exactly we wrote a letter to Yerevan Municipality to help us to interview some company boss or a person building smart ciyies. Here is the letter and response letter.

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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Our city is not smart but it's going to. Nowadays a lot of buildings and even districts are being built smartly. But right now we don't know much about it. We are going to explore about the topic very soon.

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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Yerevan N143 Basic School after M.Khorenatsi

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We live in Yerevan. Enjoy the video.

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Vlaska smart lighting and speed limiters

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We tried to contact our authorities to get some informations about smart tech in our city and we had no luck to get our answers, yet. That couldn't stop us to ask some building investitors, traffic control policemen, architecture students etc about info they can provide us, and this is what we found:
1. We do have some smart traffic signs and speed limiters.
2. We have smart lighting in some parts of Vlaska and Mladenovac (our city).
3. Newer buildings are equiped with smart heating systems, so residents of those buildings can regulate heating over mobile application.
4. Additionally some investitors are providing an option of integrating Amazon's Alexa Smart Home Ins

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OS "Zivomir Savkovic" Kovacevac

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Lúcia Tardão - Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Alberto Iria

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Lúcia Tardão - Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Alberto Iria

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Elementary School ''Bora Lazic'' Vlaska

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Elementary School ''Bora Lazic'' https://prezi.com/p/pabtml1nuvmx/?present=1

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Vlaška, Serbia SUBTITLE GOES HERE Our School Our School In our school , we have smart boards that teachers use to make learning easier for us Students calibrating Smart Board Board Smart buildings Smart Buildings We have a couple of Smart buildings in our town and we are building

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In my city we have a smart bench and here is a picture of it.

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In my city, we have smart benches and an electric car charger.

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Chargers for electric cars and a smart bench in my city.

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Smart bench and parking lot with electric car charger in my city.

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A smart map of my town, a smart bench you can use to charge your phone with solar energy and an electric vehicle charging station.

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Smart greenhouse in my city.

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Smart camera in my city.

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Smart garbage bin in my city.

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Smart traffic control in my city.

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Smart door lock.

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Smart streetlighting in my city.

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Smart garbage bin in my city.

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We think that our city is smart, because we have smart traffic control, streetlighting and street cameras.

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I'm not sure.

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here is map of our places

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Leonardo Kucelj, Bedekovčina secondary school

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Leonardo Kucelj, Bedekovčina secondary school

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I'm not sure.

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I don't think my city is a smart city because it's pretty small and then they don't invest enough in it

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I'm not sure.

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I could talk to people from my municipality. but I still don't think they'd want to listen to me too much.

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I could interview authorities, but I'm not sure would they accept some opinions. :/

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Sara Barlović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Sara Barlović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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I don't know.

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I could always contact the authorities but I don't think that they would have time for me to interview them because it's not really usual for us students to interview the authorities, they will gladly listen to me when I will be older.

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Yes, my village is smart because it has electric cars, we use cell phones,technology, and it has smart benches.

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Ana Poljak, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Ana Poljak, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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I'm not sure.

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Petra Seničić, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Petra Seničić, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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I can try, but I don't think it would work and that my opinion would not influence their opinion about turning the city into a smart city.

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I can talk to the authorities of our municipality about smart cities. If I had a good idea, they would gladly listen to the idea because they respect the opinions of the miads about improving the city.

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My city is smart. It has lights that are turned on by movement, benches where we can charge our phones,...

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Sara Latinović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Sara Latinović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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I think my city even tough is pretty small is smart in some kind of way.
In my town we have benches on the solar system with free wi-fi and on that bench the mobile phone can be charged. We have chargers for electric cars. We can buy many things online, e.g. train or bus tickets. I think my city is smart, but there are still a lot of shortcomings. Some cities are much more developed than mine.

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Hi! :) My city has some smart stuff. One of them is that all the lights are switching off in the same time. There is also an app where they give you money if you are for example, a student that is travelling to their school everyday. They give you online scholarships and many more. :)

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Ana Poljak, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Ana Poljak, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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My city is smart. We have a smart bench where you can listen to interesting facts about the city and also charge your phone. And we also have a place to charge electric cars.

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Sara Barlović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Sara Barlović, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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My city is smart. We have a smart bench where we can charge our cell phones, lights that turn on themselves, parking spaces where electric cars can be charged.

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Petra Seničić, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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Petra Seničić, Bedekovčina Secondary School

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I don't really live in a smart city because I don't have the opportunities that residents of a real smart city have. We only have one smart bench with solar panels that we can use to charge mobile phones and one "charger" for electric cars. Whereas real smart cities have more.

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Maybe i could try, but I don't think that there would be anything done to for it to be better.

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Yes, my city is smart because it has chargers for electric cars, it uses internet sites for younger people to suggest how to make our city better and always organisers events and announces them on the internet.

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No, because it doesn't have a tehnology and it does not satisfy needs to be considered as smart city.

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My city is smart because it has chargers for electric cars, uses a lot of technology. It all makes my city better for its residents.

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Kutaisi wins national best practice award for the smart eco-city portfolio.

National Association of Local Authorities, with support from the EU, Denmark, and UNDP, reveals best practices among Georgia’s municipalities.
Georgian municipalities presented their development projects and local solutions at the fifth annual contest organized by the National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia (NALAG) to reveal the best practices in local governance and municipal performance.

The initiative was supported by the European Union (EU), UNDP and Denmark, under their broader assistance for regional and local development in Georgia – the EU-funded programmes, Mayors for Economic Growth Facility (M4EG) and Integrated Territorial Development, and the Denmark-funded project for Decentralization and Good Governance at the Local Level.

Fourteen municipalities were awarded this year, with Kutaisi winning the national award for the smart eco-city portfolio.

Source: Kutaisi wins national best practice award for the smart eco-city portfolio | United Nations Development Programme (undp.org)

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Photo: UNDP Georgia/Vladimir Valishvili

Georgian municipalities presented their development projects and local solutions at the fifth annual contest organized by the National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia (NALAG) to reveal the best practices in local governance and municipal performance.

The initiative was supported by the European Union (EU), UNDP and Denmark, under their broader assistance for regional and local development in Georgia - the EU-funded programmes, Mayors for Economic Growth Facility (M4EG) and Integrated Territorial Development, and the Denmark-funded project for Decentralization and Good Governance at the Local Level.

Fourteen municipalities were awarded this year, with Kutaisi winning the national award for the smart eco-city portfolio.

Earlier this year, Kutaisi was selected by the EU and UNDP for a two-year-long journey to explore a smart eco-city model and nature-based urban innovation and facilitate the transition towards green and sustainable life. This municipal transformation portfolio received EUR225,000 in funding from the EU under the M4EG Facility.

"The European Union, through our regional and local programmes, assists Georgian municipalities to unlock development opportunities, explore new trajectories of growth, and benefit from the experience accumulated in the EU Member States".

H.E. Pawel Herczynski, Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia

"UNDP is strongly committed to supporting decentralization and local governments in Georgia. Municipalities are where life-changing decisions are being made and where practical steps are being taken towards a green and equal future. At a time of uncertainty, transformative changes take development to the next level and present smart ways to cope with social, economic or environmental challenges".

Nick Beresford, UNDP Resident Representative in Georgia

The NALAG's National Conference on Best Practices is an annual forum for local authorities, civil society and communities to discuss important developments at the local level, reveal best practices in service delivery, explore innovative solutions to local challenges, and share experiences, successes and lessons learned.

This year's conference included an in-depth discussion on transformative changes at the local level, bringing examples of the cities of Batumi, Kutaisi and Poti engaged in the M4EG facility. The conference participants also addressed the protection of the rights of people with disabilities and discussed municipal guidelines on disability-inclusive local budgeting development with the EU and UNDP support.

The conference was opened by Giorgi Tkemaladze, Chairman of Tbilisi City Municipal Assembly and NALAG Vice President. Kakha Kakhishvili, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Regional Policy and Self-Government; Mzia Giorgobiani, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure; and Niko Tatulashvili, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Human Rights, participated in discussions.

Ten municipalities received Best Practice Awards this year:

Senaki. Nomination: Public-private partnership at the local level.

Kutaisi. Two nominations: (1) Local economic development planning and participatory economic development innovation, (2) Successful cooperation with international donors.

Zugdidi. Four nominations: (1) Youth policy and engagement, (2) Child-oriented social programmes, child rights protection and harm prevention, (3) Successful cooperation with international donors, (4) Participatory planning of municipal programmes, increased effectiveness and access to healthcare.

Oni. Nomination: Youth policy and engagement.

Dusheti. Nomination: Child-oriented social programmes, child rights protection and harm prevention

Chokhatauri. Nominations: Environmental protection, energy efficiency, climate change adaptation.

Keda. Nomination: Gender equality, gender-sensitive municipal services.

Poti. Nomination: Gender equality, gender-sensitive municipal services.

Khashuri. Two nominations: (1) Citizen engagement, local budget transparency, (2) Municipal programmes for preschool education, extracurricular education, and lifelong learning.

Batumi. Nomination: Municipal waste management and circular economy development. The project is supported by the UNDP Accelerator Lab with funds from Germany and Qatar.

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Kutaisi wins national best practice award for the smart eco-city portfolio

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Georgian municipalities presented their development projects and local solutions at the fifth annual contest organized by the National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia (NALAG) to reveal the best practices in local governance and municipal performance.

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