Urban Patterns and Citizen Participation: Geographical Data Analysis of Decidim Barcelona
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The document discusses an analysis of citizen participation data from Decidim Barcelona, an online platform for citizen participation in Barcelona city planning. The analysis found over 10,000 proposals submitted online, with over 165,000 votes and 18,000 comments. Offline, there were 410 physical meetings with over 11,000 attendees. The goal is to detect patterns in citizen participation across urban areas and identify topics of most interest to help promote more equal participation. Future work will examine factors like Internet access that could affect participation inequality across districts.
Urban Patterns and Citizen Participation: Geographical Data Analysis of Decidim Barcelona
- 1. Urban Patterns and Citizen Participation: Geographical Data Analysis of Decidim Barcelona Matteo Manca1, Pablo Arag坦n1,2, Antonio Calleja-L坦pez3 European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science London, UK - November 15th-17th, 2017 2017: Inequality and Imbalance 1 Eurecat,Technology Center of Catalonia 2 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 3 Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
- 2. Crisis of democracy @mattemanca European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science The crisis of representative democracy in the last three decades Period of fertile democratic innovation supported by an intensive and creative use of ICTs
- 3. Decidim Barcelona @mattemanca Digital platform developed by the Barcelona City Council for citizen participatory processes, e.g., the development of the strategic city plan. https://www.decidim.barcelona/ European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 4. Decidim Barcelona: How does it work? @mattemanca Physical meetings Digital participation European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science All proposals Citizens Comment, discuss and vote proposals Accepted proposals
- 5. Taxonomy of thematic categories: Good Living Ecological Transition Plural Economy Good Government Global Justice Decidim Barcelona @mattemanca https://www.decidim.barcelona/ Scope: City District European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 6. Decidim Barcelona @mattemanca Given that: Decidim represents a public repository of citizens interests. Items like proposals and meetings are geolocalized. Goal: Detect urban patterns and possible gaps in citizen participation. Identify main topics of interests. Help institutions to promote a more equal and balanced forms of participation. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 7. Preliminary analysis @mattemanca Online participation 10,860 proposals 165,088 votes 18,191 comments European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 8. Preliminary analysis @mattemanca Offline participation o 410 physical meeting o 11,577 attendees o 2,000 civic organizations o 5,179 proposals in physical meetings European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 9. Preliminary analysis @mattemanca Hybrid participation 5,179 proposals in physical meetings European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
- 14. Preliminary analysis @mattemanca European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science Proposals in district and city meetings
- 15. Future work @mattemanca Characterize which factors might affect inequality and imbalance of citizen participation. Compare these results with external geographical data, e.g. the rate of Internet access by district. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
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