What plans do Ada Colau the MWC? – Hypertext

Ada Colau, ara.cat photo.

Ada Colau, social activist noted for its antidesahucios struggle has won the municipal elections of Barcelona in front of the public platform Comú Barcelona.

In February, Colau made headlines for his statements on the MWC in Barcelona One of the most technology events important worldwide, months before alcaldable. Whether it is in favor of MWC to Racó Catalá:

Obviously, we are in favor of economic activity and technological development, but there must be a level playing field, and there to reorient the production model of the city and society, is untenable because what we have now. The policy of major events in the city can generate a lot of money in a few days to a few very specific sectors, but it is not a sustainable model for the city. Similarly, there is a congress can be good for the city

And whether you prefer the MWC in Barcelona or outside.

It depends, depends on how rules for how resources are managed, of expenses assumed. Normally we talk about major events or the current tourism model assuming great benefits to the city they bring, but we should make a serious study of who is really benefiting, because the general perception of the public is that it generates large and huge profits for very few hands.

qualified his words in March, ensuring that the Barcelona win Comú platform, the Mobile World Congress in no danger. But he stressed the importance of working to make your celebration generate an improvement for the set of the city.

nuance and said he is “in favor of Mobile and other conferences and events, especially if they have to do with strategic sectors such as technology or medicine “. Although these events should develop a local industry to be able to generate employment, and quality throughout the year. MWC should help to “generalize access to new technologies.” Activist and future mayor fails to understand how the city of Mobile World Congress no districts as ‘Nou Barris’ where half of its population has no access to the Internet.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​2014 edition.

The words, goals and ideas of Ada have more implications. Believes that “limited” to the revenue generated by tourism congresses and make Barcelona a dependent town of outside and vulnerable since according to the mayor “much rates will rise and cruises aircraft fuel.”

To know the magnitude of the Mobile World Congress, enough to observe their growing numbers year year of participation and income generated:

• The most successful edition It has been the MWC 2015 with over 93,000 attendees, surpassing the expectations of the organization. GSMA.
• are not “regular” workers, 3,800 were journalists from around the world. 52% had management positions in their companies and 5,000 were CEOs.
• The Ministerial Programme broke records last year with 161 delegations representing 136 countries.

Barcelona it becomes the center of the world of technology industry , one of the most productive sectors of our day, for a week. The economic impact on the city is estimated in excess of 436 million euros according to the GSMA. . Something that is hard to give, but perhaps we can get more and more hands as Ada Colau