How Technologies Can Enhance Open Policy Making and Citizen-Responsive Urban Planning

2020 ◽  
pp. 501-522
Author(s):  
Francesca De Filippi ◽  
Cristina Coscia ◽  
Roberta Guido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Administrative Area ◽  
Collaborative Platform ◽  
Set Up

This paper explores an innovative approach to open policymaking and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino (the Polytechnic University of Turin). The project engages both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning critical issues, as well as positive trends and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), through the use of a digital collaborative platform. The experiment was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies to foster e-participation in urban planning. MiraMap has been set up with an eye to achieving integration within the current administrative management process and to involving new actors in the decision-making process through a “collective governance” approach. Therefore, this paper seeks to set up a methodological (and technological) framework, which is seen as crucial for addressing the complexity and dynamics of urban planning and programming, by integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

How Technologies Can Enhance Open Policy Making and Citizen-Responsive Urban Planning

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca De Filippi ◽  
Cristina Coscia ◽  
Roberta Guido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Administrative Area ◽  
Collaborative Platform ◽  
Set Up

This paper explores an innovative approach to open policymaking and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino (the Polytechnic University of Turin). The project engages both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning critical issues, as well as positive trends and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), through the use of a digital collaborative platform. The experiment was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies to foster e-participation in urban planning. MiraMap has been set up with an eye to achieving integration within the current administrative management process and to involving new actors in the decision-making process through a “collective governance” approach. Therefore, this paper seeks to set up a methodological (and technological) framework, which is seen as crucial for addressing the complexity and dynamics of urban planning and programming, by integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

Digital Platforms for Enhancing Participatory Design and Urban Regeneration

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-82
Author(s):  
Francesca De Filippi ◽  
Cristina Coscia ◽  
Roberta Guido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Administrative Area ◽  
Collaborative Platform ◽  
Set Up

This chapter explores an innovative approach to open policy-making and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on the ongoing project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino from 2013. It started creating a crowdmap, engaging both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning issues, and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), until it became a digital collaborative platform. It was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies. MiraMap has been set up by integrating current administrative management process and involving new actors in the decision-making process. Today, the project is focusing mostly on encouraging forms of co-design and co-production, including gaming components. The chapter seeks to set up a methodological and technological framework, by addressing the complexity of urban planning and integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

scholarly journals Urban Planning and Mobility Critical Issues in Post-Earthquake Configuration: L’Aquila City Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 1815-1819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino D’Ovidio ◽  
Donato Di Ludovico ◽  
Giovanni Luigi La Rocca
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Critical Issues

E-Government's Role in Shifting the Paradigm of Performance in the Public Sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 497-514
Author(s):  
Lidia Noto
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Simulation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Feedback Structure

The emergence of e-government changed the world of the Public Administration (PA) and the discipline of Public Management dramatically. Through the presentation of a case- study of the municipality of Palermo, this article attempts to discuss the renewed need for assessing performance of e-government services in a local government and to disclose the main critical issues in accomplishing this evaluation. Palermo is experiencing the implementation of a second- generation e-government project that is embodied in the realization of a web portal. The conceptualization of a framework to assess the performance of the digital services appears to be crucial in order to improve the system and to avoid the errors of the first project. This work relies on a survey to the citizens and semi-structured interviews to managers in charge of the development of the project. System Dynamics, a particular kind of dynamic simulation, is used to provide the necessary feedback structure for identifying the determinants of the success of the portal.

The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy

2009 ◽  
pp. 752-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ask ◽  
Mathias Hatakka ◽  
Åke Grönlund
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Model ◽  
New Public ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Government Project

This chapter discusses practices, opportunities, and challenges in local e-government project management by means of a case study involving interviews, document studies, and an element of action research, over eight months. The analysis against e-government success factors finds seven “critical issues”; political timing, resource allocation, political mandate, distinction between administrative and political responsibilities, coordination of departments, dependence on providers, and use of standards. We found these issues open for local choice, influences of strong individuals and groups, and chance. This is a consequence of the prevailing strategic model for the public sector, New Public Management, which leaves these issues to be filled by negotiations among many actors with different roles, goals, and action space. The general lesson is that there is a need for practical ways of acting strategically to reduce the risk level and increase the ability to implement policy.

E-Government's Role in Shifting the Paradigm of Performance in the Public Sector

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Noto
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Feedback Structure

The emergence of e-government changed the world of the Public Administration (PA) and the discipline of Public Management dramatically. Through the presentation of a case- study of the municipality of Palermo, this article attempts to discuss the renewed need for assessing performance of e-government services in a local government and to disclose the main critical issues in accomplishing this evaluation. Palermo is experiencing the implementation of a second- generation e-government project that is embodied in the realization of a web portal. The conceptualization of a framework to assess the performance of the digital services appears to be crucial in order to improve the system and to avoid the errors of the first project. This work relies on a survey to the citizens and semi-structured interviews to managers in charge of the development of the project. System Dynamics, a particular kind of dynamic simulation, is used to provide the necessary feedback structure for identifying the determinants of the success of the portal.

scholarly journals Contextualized Property Market Models vs. Generalized Mass Appraisals: An Innovative Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 4896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morano ◽  
Rosato ◽  
Tajani ◽  
Manganelli ◽  
Liddo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Functional Form ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Market Models ◽  
Italian Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
Valuation Model ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Automated Valuation

The present research takes into account the current and widespread need for rational valuation methodologies, able to correctly interpret the available market data. An innovative automated valuation model has been simultaneously implemented to three Italian study samples, each one constituted by two-hundred residential units sold in the years 2016–2017. The ability to generate a “unique” functional form for the three different territorial contexts considered, in which the relationships between the influencing factors and the selling prices are specified by different multiplicative coefficients that appropriately represent the market phenomena of each case study analyzed, is the main contribution of the proposed methodology. The method can provide support for private operators in the assessment of the territorial investment conveniences and for the public entities in the decisional phases regarding future tax and urban planning policies.

scholarly journals Absence of Effects of Herbicides Use on Yam Rots: A Case Study in Wulensi, Ghana

Agriculture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abukari Wumbei ◽  
Judith Kania Asibi Bawa ◽  
Mamudu Abunga Akudugu ◽  
Pieter Spanoghe
Keyword(s):  
Weed Control ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
The Public ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Traditional Area

Yam farmers in Ghana have, over the years, used herbicides for weed control, particularly glyphosate. Although this has been helpful to them, there are complaints and concerns, among the yam farmers and a section of the public, that the yam tuber rots easily under the use of herbicides. This study, therefore, was set up at the field level to investigate the possibility of herbicides use causing yam rot. Two yam varieties, “laribako” and “olodo”, were grown under the conditions of chemical weed control (use of glyphosate) and manual weed control in three replicate sites in Wulensi in the Nanumba traditional area of northern Ghana. The study revealed that there was no difference in rots between herbicide treated yams and manually weeded yams, but that there was a difference in rots between “laribako” and “olodo” yam varieties. The results also showed that there was no difference in yield between herbicide treated yams and manually weeded yams. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that, there was no difference in yam rot and yield between herbicides treated and manually weeded yams, but “laribako” was more susceptible to rot than “olodo”.

scholarly journals On Frontline Workers as Bureau-Political Actors: The Case of Civil–Military Crisis Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 1148-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jori Pascal Kalkman ◽  
Peter Groenewegen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The Public

We focus attention on the public policy-making influence of frontline bureaucrats. They are increasingly operating in interorganizational partnerships and networks in which they develop collaborative relations with frontline workers of other public organizations. We theorize that their embeddedness in local interorganizational environments induces and enables them to defy locally inappropriate policies and to pursue locally relevant policies as policy entrepreneurs simultaneously. The case study of policy-making in Dutch civil–military crisis management demonstrates that this “frontline bureaucratic politics” bears considerably on policy outcomes. We conclude that viewing frontline workers as bureau-political actors enhances our understanding of public policy-making in interorganizational arrangements.

scholarly journals Peak-load pricing in public transport: a case study of Stockholm

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilhelm Horn af Rantzien ◽  
Anna Rude
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Price Change ◽  
Peak Load ◽  
Peak Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Price Elasticities ◽  
Load Demand ◽  
Ramsey Prices ◽  
Set Up

This paper studies how the price affects the demand for public transport in the peak- and off-peak period in the public transport in Stockholm. Further, the study investigates how differences in price elasticities of demand in the peak- and off-peak period can enable an increase in revenues as well as the total number of passengers while dampening the peak-load problem through price discrimination. The data is set up to examine the effect of the price on the number of passengers travelling by subway from January 1999 to December 2008. A number of control variables are used to isolate the effect of a price change in our econometric model. Thereafter, the elasticities of demand for each period are calculated in order to find Ramsey prices that can be used when a monopoly firm maximizes profit and minimizes the welfare loss. The study concludes that the price elasticities of demand differ between the peak- and the off-peak period and that SL should charge a higher price in the peak-period and a lower price in the off-peak period to both increase their revenue, the total number of passengers, and reduce their problems associated with the peak-load demand.

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