Topic C - PoliTICs
Work Team C-23: Digital cities and territories
Initial questions
The renewal of the democracy, a top down or a bottom up process?
Scopes and limitations of both processes.
Under what conditions does the e-democracy help to create social cohesion and under what conditions might fragment the society?
What are the criteria to evaluate the success or defeat of experiences with direct democracy?
How is it possible to synchronize the existing communicative gap with the taking of decisions of social actors?
How in the presence of more and more homogeneous cities in its planning and ephemeral in their rhythms of life, is it possible to construct a "participatory citizenship"? Is it possible using the technological innovation?
Taglist
e-democracy, social appropriation of technology, digital cities, inequality/exclusion, social/citizen participation, local environment / municipals, citizenship
Work Group description
Since the 70s and 80s, cities have increase their role not only in the management of public utilities, but also as a space for policy making. The processes of political and administrative decentralization have created a framework to promote this change. In parallel, the crisis of representative democracy and globalization has strengthened the local space as a prominent area for public participation. The ICT revolution offers to politicians, citizenship and civil society organizations new tools to promote citizen participation, such as Web 2.0, social networks and mobile technologies. However, these processes and their results have been heterogeneous and even if several scholars and practitioners have explored this development, there exist a pending debate about the expected results, consequences, trends and also criteria to measure all that.
The GT to analyze different experiences to understand the scope, potential and limitations of these changes.
- efore the discussion of communications (12-29 of November) we have prepared a series of online workshops that will be published progressively.
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