Responding to the Information Needs of Citizens in an Open Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 216-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger W. Caves
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Smart Community ◽  
Community Concept ◽  
Smart Communities

The use of ICTs in community development areas has increased over the past 10 years. This chapter examines how the “Smart Community” concept can help areas of various sizes accomplish a variety of local and regional development processes. The chapter covers such issues the role of citizen participation, the roles of information technologies, the components of a “Smart Community”, the California Smart Communities Program, and the lessons learned to date from the program. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the “digital divide” between people with access to various ICTs and those without access any access to ICTs.

THE ROLE OF INTERACTIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN SPACE

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
A. A LYuBIMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Practical Design

The author has investigated the usage of information terminology and has made the review of the practical design with the use of interactive information technology in modern and future urban planning. Such concepts as interactivity or grid-technologies aren't perceived separately from the art of architecture, so far as it concerns the creation of the urbanized space answering a technogenic level of community development. The existing examples of digital elements usage in urban planning raise the living standards of urban population. It supports the basic principles of sustainable development. Thus, the interactive urban space conception is current for the architecture of information society.

scholarly journals Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 095624782110325
Author(s):  
Catalina Ortiz ◽  
Alejandro Vallejo ◽  
Jorge Peña ◽  
Emily Morris ◽  
Joiselen Cazanave Macías ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Neighbourhood Level ◽  
The City

In 2019, Cuba approved a new political constitution that calls for deepening citizen participation to strengthen local governance. The emerging decentralization processes and the role of new actors in urban development open new possibilities for inclusive planning. While citizen participation is widely documented in the global South and under Western liberal democracy regimes, participatory urban planning in the context of Southern socialist cities such as Havana has been less scrutinized. This paper aims at mapping the framings, trajectories and legacies of such participatory planning initiatives. Based on mapping workshops and desktop research, we find that participatory initiatives within Havana are spatially dispersed, sporadic, lacking at the city level, and occurring in isolation at the neighbourhood level. We argue that establishing sustained participatory urban planning practices in Havana requires decision makers to scale outwards and upwards the lessons learned from existing initiatives to foster a city-wide participatory planning strategy.

scholarly journals The role of communicative acts in the Dream process: engaging Moroccan migrants in a community development initiative in urban Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Carrillo ◽  
Sandra Girbés-Peco ◽  
Lena De Botton ◽  
Rosa Valls-Carol
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Development Processes

Abstract The present article offers relevant insights into how the evidence-based community development initiative known as the Dream process has had a positive impact on the inclusion, participation and leadership of a marginalized community of Moroccan immigrants in urban Spain. More specifically, we analyse how the commitment to promote dialogic communicative acts and to reduce power communicative acts during the process has attenuated some of the race, gender and class barriers that hindered the community’s involvement in dialogic and decision-making spaces aimed at improving their living conditions. In this article, we first introduce the state of the art using studies that have examined the role of interaction and deliberation in community development processes in disadvantaged contexts. Then, we briefly refer to the deterioration of the living conditions of the Moroccan immigrant population in Spain. Finally, we present the main results obtained from the qualitative case study research carried out through the implementation of the communicative methodology. This case study provides both theoretical claims and practical orientations to examine how dialogic approaches can contribute to community development processes in contexts severely affected by racial segregation and poverty.

Individual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia

10.1068/c36m ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A Beard
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Individual Determinants

Given the new decentralization legislation in Indonesia, citizen participation is an increasingly important factor in planning and development policies. Yet policymakers have inadequate information about the types of individuals likely to contribute their knowledge, time, and economic resources to the development process. This paper provides a background and conceptual framework for understanding citizen participation in community development as well as the related components of civil society and social capital in Indonesia. A series of logistic and ordinary least squares regression models are used to analyze the effect of individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics on the likelihood of participation in community development. I conclude that participatory community development (1) restricts women's participation beyond the role of family caretaker, and (2) has a limited capacity to help the poor.

scholarly journals БІБЛІОТЕЧНО-ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИЙ ПОТЕНЦІАЛ М. ДНІПРО: СУЧАСНИЙ СТАН ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Koloskova ◽  
Oleksii Kobieliev
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
General Information ◽  
Information Structures ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Current State ◽  
The City ◽  
Development Prospects

The definitions of the term “library and information potential”, personnel, technical, social means, methods, structures, conditions that allow libraries to put it into circulation, position, disclose, and effectively use it have been analyzed. The structure and elements of the library and information potential in the traditional and electronic environment are considered. It has been determined that it exists in two forms: internal and external. The role of the library and information potential in meeting the information needs of modern users has been investigated. It is proved that in the conditions of the rapid development of information technologies, the library and information potential should be considered as part of the general information potential of society in general and the city in particular. The article considers its current state and development prospects in terms of interaction with various document and information structures in the context of informatization of the city, as well as the need to create a single information resource for the city with a single format for data presentation.

A Social Engagement Fast Track on Energy Communities—Key Lesson Learned from H2020 EU Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Simona d’Oca ◽  
Sylvia Breukers ◽  
Stephan Slingerland ◽  
Marten Boekelo ◽  
Mara J. van Welie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Electricity System ◽  
And Storage

Energy communities organise collective and citizen-driven energy actions that will help pave the way for a clean energy transition, while moving citizens to the forefront. The energy market is rapidly transforming and so is the role of the consumer. Yesterday’s passive consumers become central actors in today’s energy markets. Today, as prosumers, citizens can benefit from their generation, consumption, and storage capabilities. Moreover, by supporting social engagement and citizen participation, energy communities can help provide flexibility to the electricity system through demand response, storage, and peer-to-peer energy exchange. Based on the collective debate from nine H2020 running projects (Renaissance, COMETS, Sender, eCREW, Lightness, ReDream, HESTIA, UP-STAIRS and NRG2peers), several challenges and key lessons learned can be identified for just social engagement. These challenges and lessons are relevant for the present and future development of EU energy communities.

scholarly journals Between research and community development: Negotiating a contested space for collaboration and creativity

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Sarah Banks ◽  
Andrea Armstrong ◽  
Anne Bonner ◽  
Yvonne Hall ◽  
Patrick Harman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Inquiry Group ◽  
North East ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the relationship between co-produced research and community development. In particular, it addresses longstanding debates about whether certain forms of co-produced research (especially participatory action research), are, in fact, indistinguishable from community development. This question is explored with reference to Imagine North East, a co-produced research project based in North East England, which was part of a larger programme of research on civic participation (Imagine – connecting communities through research). The chapter offers a critical analysis of three elements of Imagine North East: an academic-led study of community development from the 1970s to the present; starting with the national Community Development Projects in Benwell and North Shields; a series of community development projects undertaken by local community-based organisations; and the challenges and outcomes of a joint process of reflection and co-inquiry. It considers the role of co-produced research in challenging stigma, celebrating place and developing skills and community networks – all recognisable as community development processes and outcomes. It also discusses the difficult process of bringing together a disparate group of people in a co-inquiry group; the time taken to develop identities as practitioner-researchers; and the skills required to engage in a kind of ‘collaborative reflexivity’ whereby members of the group critically reflected together on the group’s role and dynamics.

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