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The 2011 PASCAL Conference -- originally scheduled for October 3-5, 2011 -- is being revised in response to two key factors.

PIE Briefing Paper 1 set guidelines for the initial development of PASCAL International Exchanges.  This stage of PIE development has produced a good deal of valuable information on issues, challenges and strategies adopted by the participating cities.

It is now timely to build on the information and ideas brought forward and to find ways to make the PIE process of exchanges innovative and creative in adding value to the experience of individual cities through the PIE process.

In order to progress PIE to the next stage of development and collaborative sharing of ideas and experience, the following steps are proposed.

1. We shall invite the author of each stimulus paper to respond to the blog contributions to their and other papers with a short Response Note up to one page in length;
2. We shall prepare a number of PIE Discussion Papers which seek to bring together the themes that have emerged in the initial round of posts. These will be available on the PIE web space in late March. We would hope that the participants in each city might then be able to get together to share their thoughts about these discussion papers, and then provide some further feedback to the PIE site.

This Briefing Paper provides detailed information on each of these steps.