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San Diego Dialogue is best known for our work
to plan a bi-national metropolitan region.
Crossborder Innovation & Competitiveness Initiative
This is a multi-year effort to explore the concept that the San Diego-Baja California region will be more globally competitive in key science and technology sectors.
Forum Fronterizo
Forum Fronterizo is a luncheon series designed
to provide civic leaders with a place to examine
major opportunities and challenges facing this
cross-border region. The Forum has been extremely
successful in catalyzing local, state and federal
collaboration on binational concerns and launching
new cross-border initiatives. Business, government
and academic leaders from both sides of the border
attend.
Forum
Fronterizo Public Programs:
In
1997, San Diego Dialogue established the Forum
Fronterizo luncheon series in order to
provide civic leaders with a venue to examine
the major opportunities and challenges facing
this binational metropolitan region. The Chair
for the 2003 Forum Fronterizo public programs
is the Honorable
Eugenio Elorduy Walther, Governor of the State
of Baja California.
Forum
Fronterizo Council:
The
Forum Fronterizo
Council is one of this region's most prestigious
and influential civic associations. Its role is
to establish the policy agenda for the Forum Fronterizo
public programs, thereby assuring that the critical
development issues in our cross-border region
are addressed. The 2003 Forum
Fronterizo Council is chaired by Don
Felsinger, Group President of Sempra
Energy, and includes prominent representatives
of business, community-based organizations, educational
institutions and local government on both sides
of the border. Membership is by invitation only.
2003
Forum Fronterizo Theme: Building Leadership
on Cross-Border Priorities
Our
Goal:
To
advance policy priorities that emerged from recent
Forum Fronterizo programs on water, energy,
health care, manufacturing, ports of entry management,
and air quality.
Forum
Fronterizo Policy Priorities:
- Endorsement of
regional water conveyance system
- Significant
expansion of SENTRI
- Definition
of border leadership challenges and potential
solutions
- Development
of a plan to link San Diego R&D to manufacturing
in Baja California
- Assessment
of progress in meeting regional energy needs
- Assessment
of progress in improving air quality
- Assessment
of progress in meeting cross-border health challenges
How:
- Briefings
with the Boards of Directors of major business
and civic organizations in the region
- Strategic
partnerships on specific priorities
- Two
Forum Fronterizo Public Forums to address
our progress on policy priorities and to propose
solutions to civic and political leadership
challenges
- Forum
Fronterizo Council roundtables with
elected officials and policy leaders, in order
to provide a sounding board for strategies and
proposals
- Potential
video-conferencing program to engage key decision-makers
in Washington D.C., Mexico City, Sacramento
and Mexicali in dialogue with the Forum
Council and the Forum Fronterizo
network
Other links:
Next Forum Fronterizo
Luncheon Event:
The next Forum Fronterizo Luncheon is tentatively
planned for Spring 2005.
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