H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

CROWD_USG · Crowdsourcing Urban Sustainability Governance. Exploring innovative governance models for addressing urban sustainability through ICT-people interaction

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-06-01 → 2019-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 800 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Crowdsourcing Urban Sustainability Governance. Exploring innovative governance models for addressing urban sustainability through ICT-people interaction

The objective of the research was to investigate whether and how crowdsourcing processes can advance real participatory knowledge and policy-making in the governance of urban sustainability.Crowdsourcing initiatives (online, distributed problem-solving processes for creative solutions development) are currently widely experimented in many European cities and promise to have a disruptive effect on tokenistic forms of citizens participation and traditional governance models. The broad availability of digital devices and software has been often welcomed, from both policy experts and social scholars, as a revolutionary possibility for enlarging the sphere of public debate by allowing more people to step in; and for democratizing government and governance processes traditionally precluded to the crowd, particularly in the urban context. Nevertheless, critical scholars and internet activists recently raised doubts about the actual possibilities, intrinsic limits and external obstacles of technological citizenry. After some years of experimental applications and pilot cases, the path toward the realization of a digitally-empowered governance processes still seems uphill, with many revolutionary wishes doomed to remain un-realized (or even un-realizable); and other wishes turning to be probably not so desirable, due to the socio-political risks they might bring about. CROWD_USG stepped into the social debate and the practical experimentation of digital-supported participatory processes to investigate from the inside what potentialities and risks associated with a broader diffusion of on-line urban governance.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The project explores the potential of crowdsourcing (an online, distributed problem-solving process for creative solutionsdevelopment) to advance innovative urban sustainability governance (USG) models. It is intended to investigate whether andhow crowdsourcing can be appropriate for:- dealing with the mutable, multi-scalar and complex character of urban sustainability (including environmental protection anddemocracy provisions);- activating real participatory processes in knowledge production and decision-making;- empowering technological agency of heterogeneous actor-networks for narrowing the gap between research results and policy applications.Research hypothesis are tested against evidences collected through investigation on the city of Ghent (Belgium), whosecommitment for achieving urban sustainability goals through people’s participation, technological development and public-private partnerships makes it a forefront example in the European panorama. Actor-Network Theory framework andScenario Building analysis are adopted for modelling current material-semiotic fluxes in USG; and for prefiguringfuture social, political and economic development determined by the introduction of crowdsourcing processes. Scientificresults will include:- the assessment of the most appropriate crowdsourcing processes for citizens, administrations and business tocollaboratively produce an innovative USG model;- the provision of policy-suggestions for the implementation of crowdsourcing-based participatory processes for USG in thecontext of European cities.Scientific and logistic support for the research will be provided by the Centre for Sustainable Development at Ghent University, whose leading experience on sustainable cities, transition governance, scenarios-building and future studies willprovide applicant with the necessary expertise and assistance for establishing a European academic career in science,technology and society studies.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITEIT GENT · GentКоординаторБелгия