E-participation – a Key Factor in Developing Smart Cities

Описание: Welcome to the 40th episode of The Smart World Around Us, brought to you by Smart-EDU Hub!

In this episode, we explore e-participation as a key element in developing smart cities, based on the work of Cătălin Vrabie and Andreea-Maria Tîrziu.

What’s inside:
What is a smart city: leveraging ICT to enable socially inclusive governance.
Foundations of e-participation:
-- e-information (access to data and transparency),
-- e-consultation (involving citizens in policy design),
-- e-decision (co-decision and electronic voting).
Administrative transformation: shifting from a control culture to a performance-oriented one.
Benefits vs. risks: more transparency and civic engagement, but also the danger of digital exclusion.
European case studies: practical examples from Germany and Romania.

Key takeaway: technology matters, but successful e-participation ultimately depends on the willingness and capacity of both citizens and public institutions to collaborate.

E-participation – a Key Factor in Developing Smart Cities
Authors: Catalin Vrabie & Andreea-Maria Tirziu
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

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