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Author: Olga Horn

Olga Horn is a Senior Officer at the ICLEI World Secretariat. Her work focuses on mainstreaming and promoting nature-based solutions and social equity in urban areas through the facilitation of peer-to-peer exchanges, the curation of knowledge products and global advocacy. She has a diverse academic background spanning the disciplines of sustainability science, geographic information systems, international business economics and psychology.
Fair public financing: German cities push forward with attempts to make subsidy schemes more equitable
Global Advocacy

Fair public financing: German cities push forward with attempts to make subsidy schemes more equitable

ByOlga Horn February 19, 2024July 29, 2024

This piece was written by Olga Horn, Senior Officer, ICLEI World Secretariat & Daniel Botha, Expert Justice, Equity and Democracy,…

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Wiring trees? Smart urban parks are missing the point
Exploring issues that matter

Wiring trees? Smart urban parks are missing the point

ByOlga Horn February 26, 2018

This blog post represents the opinions of Olga Horn, Roman Serdar Mendle and Monika Zimmermann, Smart Cities Team, ICLEI –…

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Paradoxes of a Smart City – Part 3: Open data vs data management
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Paradoxes of a Smart City – Part 3: Open data vs data management

ByOlga Horn May 27, 2016June 1, 2016

Open data has become an important concept in the Smart Cities debate. By opening up vaults of municipally-generated information, local…

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Paradoxes Of A Smart City – Part 2: Integrated Urban Systems vs. Resilience
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Paradoxes Of A Smart City – Part 2: Integrated Urban Systems vs. Resilience

ByOlga Horn April 25, 2016April 26, 2016

In our first “Paradoxes of a Smart City” post we explored the Jevons paradox and argued that cities need to…

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