Padmaja Iyengar

Foundation for Futuristic Cities

We wish to introduce ourselves as Foundation for Futuristic Cities. We are into Urban Advisory Services in the areas of City Visioning, City Branding, Institutional Reforms, E- Governance implementation, Stakeholder alignment and Strategic Communication for driving the reform agenda. Our team worked with seven JNNURM Mission cities in India. The Foundation for Futuristic Cities has recently announced a unique ‘Citizens for City' (www.citizensforcity.org) contest for City Strategist Awards 2009 for the citizens of Hyderabad - an initiative to make Hyderabad City future ready. The goal of the Foundation for Futuristic Cities, the organisers of this contest is to influence the city government / policy makers to incorporate citizen ideas into city development policy initiatives. Our experience of consulting in the city space gave us adequate insights into city governance issues. We used the eye wear of both eagle and ant - Policy and Implementation. Convinced that instruments aimed at cosmetic changes rarely rectify the systemic problems of Indian Cities and questioning the very paradigm on which they rely we at FFC are developing Knowledge Products and a Knowledge Management Framework for accelerating Urban Transformation.