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September 20, 2018 10:37 AM
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TRIBUNE. Emmanuel Grégoire, 1er adjoint à la maire de Paris en charge du budget, du financement et de la transformation des politiques publiques, et Pauline Véron, adjointe à la maire, en charge de la démocratie locale, de la participation citoyenne, de la vie associative et de la jeunesse, défendent les initiatives prises à Paris pour plus de démocratie participative. Début septembre, Jean-Baptiste Menguy, conseiller de Paris et du 15e arrondissement (Les Républicains), estimait au contraire dans le JDD qu'il y avait "urgence démocratique".
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July 4, 2018 10:52 AM
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Fifteen years ago, Zaragoza - the historic Spanish city situated between Madrid and Barcelona - pioneered a vision of a future digital district and knowledge-based society. Since then, the city has developed an impressive portfolio of smart city projects and new urban services. According to Daniel Sarasa, Urban Innovation Planner in Zaragoza and internationally recognized smart city innovator, one of Zaragoza's unique strengths is its culture of citizen involvement and participation. This culture has its roots in the reawakening of democracy. In the late 1970s, the city of Zaragoza (like other cities in Spain) looked back on thirty five years of dictatorship – and looked ahead to an uncertain future. During the years of dictatorship, Zaragoza had grown in population from approximately 235,000 to more than 500,000, but the civic infrastructure and public services needed to support this urban growth were inhibited by an autocratic national government which maintained severe austerity measures.
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June 14, 2018 5:37 AM
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Neighbors in Porto Alegre, Brazil, have been getting together regularly since 1989 to discuss the future of their city. Everyone is encouraged to speak at district meetings in churches, gyms and clubs,…
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April 12, 2018 6:37 AM
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Depuis les années 1970, le pouvoir politique n’a cessé de faire évoluer les dispositifs de consultation et de participation des citoyens, dans l’espoir de pallier les infirmités du système représentatif et la désaffection des électeurs. Pour Yannick Blanc, le renouveau de la vitalité démocratique se situe davantage du côté de la reconnaissance de la capacité d’initiative et d’action des citoyens.
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April 12, 2018 6:07 AM
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Here is a story about a city which began involving its citizens in setting and passing the city budget, educated them about how the local government functions, and consequently built mutual trust between the citizens and their local government.
It is a story about participatory budgeting, a process of democratic discussion and decision-making, which is a kind of participatory democracy where the citizens decide on the allocations of a part of the public budget. This enables the citizens to identify, discuss and prioritise publicly funded projects and gives them the power to make real decisions on how the money is being spent.
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April 10, 2018 12:55 PM
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Nous sommes persuadés que toute personne est capable de penser l’espace dans lequel elle vit, puisqu’elle en est le premier usager. C’est un droit culturel, de laisser à chacun la possibilité d’être créateur, de faire connaître sa pensée, de réfléchir à son environnement et d’échanger à ce sujet. Nous sommes plus intelligents à plusieurs et cette démarche mérite d’être connue pour pouvoir transmettre une expérience sur le sujet. Enfin, nous pourrons créer une expertise qui ne doit pas être dupliquée, puisqu’elle dépend du contexte urbain, mais qui doit en tous cas inspirer l’ensemble des acteurs d’autres villes. Les artistes apportent un imaginaire et une poésie, et sont les médiateurs qui permettent l’implication de citoyens dans l’aménagement de leur ville.
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April 9, 2018 10:42 AM
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Community-led innovation has experienced significant growth and support in the past few years, as reflected in the Social Innovation Community (SIC) community-led innovation network – a group of people across Europe dedicated to developing and disseminating community-led innovation tools, methods and ideas. Monica Nagore and Rebecca Watterson from The Young Foundation are coordinating the community-led innovation network. In this article, Rebecca shares some insights into how we can support communities to build and tell their own stories, and why this is crucial to community-led innovation.
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March 13, 2018 6:59 AM
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Observateur et praticien engagé dans la restitution de la parole des habitants, l’auteur revient sur les critiques adressées à la « démocratie participative » : à partir d’un exemple de réunion de concertation érigé en forme d’idéal type, il dénonce l’incapacité chronique à dépasser des impasses cent fois documentées. Constatant que l’énergie, l’envie et les idées sont là, il invite à considérer le sujet sous son angle politique.
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March 12, 2018 10:06 AM
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The project ENLARGE launched an open call for practices of participatory processes in the field on sustainable energy. The following 31 case studies were in-depth analysed by the consortium, together with the stakeholders in charge of it.
You can read the full report (.pdf) as well as the synthesis of the
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February 13, 2018 10:47 AM
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Comment des 20-35 ans imaginent-ils leur ville idéale ? Voici les réponses de six d’entre eux, invités à témoigner lors d’une conférence organisée le 2 février par « Le Monde » sur la ville du XXIe siècle.
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January 30, 2018 10:52 AM
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Quel est le point commun entre le parc éolien de Béganne (Ille et Vilaine), le méthaniseur Méthamoly (Rhône), ou la toiture solaire Watt Citoyen (Gard) ? Ils ont tous été initiés par un collectif de citoyens. Plus précisément, la société qu
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January 29, 2018 10:23 AM
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The urban planners in Tallinn have recently launched the participatory mobile application called AvaLinn for encouraging co-creation and thinking together better solutions for the North Tallinn area and specifically right now for the Skoone Bastion area which is one of our project's Pilot Sites.
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January 11, 2018 10:30 AM
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The World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban Development and Services Initiative has released its new whitepaper on Collaboration in Cities: From Sharing to ‘Sharing Economy’ . This report demystifies the new sharing economy vocabulary, explains key drivers for sharing, and the opportunities for cities to engage and drive sharing practices. It also explores how cities can leverage the potential of the sharing economy in use of municipal goods, spaces, and civic assets such as the talents and skills of city residents.
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July 19, 2018 3:26 AM
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As Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic start phasing out coal, campaigners argue that all actors – including small entrepreneurs, communities and civil society – must be part of the process.
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July 3, 2018 11:38 AM
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Human-induced climate change will challenge the solidarity between peoples that forms the basis of the European Union. Today, solidarity is under pressure from nationalist and populist movements that may prevent urgently needed action on climate change. Populists threaten the recognition of global scientific knowledge and undermine the potential for sustainability-driven modernisation vital for continued economic and social progress. Mission 2020 is a global initiative urging for rapid emissions reductions. Through taking up Mission 2020’s call for a just transformation, the European Union can renew itself and expand its purpose.
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April 12, 2018 6:38 AM
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Community-led innovation has experienced significant growth and support in the past few years. Social Innovation Community (SIC) reflects this in its community-led innovation network – a group of people across Europe dedicated to developing and disseminating community-led innovation tools, methods and ideas.
Monica Nagore and Rebecca Watterson from the Young Foundation are coordinating the community-led innovation network. In this article, Rebecca shares some insights into how we can support communities to build and tell their own stories, and why this is crucial to community-led innovation.
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April 12, 2018 6:09 AM
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The challenge of citizen participation
One of the things that city authorities continue to most struggle with is citizen participation. More than ten years after the Leipzig Charter, which set out the goal of participative integrated urban regeneration, the picture across Europe remains highly uneven. Happily though, there are many beacons of excellence, and as a programme committed to participative principles, URBACT has supported many of them. Cities like Amersfoort (NL), Gdansk (PL) and Aarhus (DK) are amongst them, whilst networks like CHANGE! have championed approaches that place citizens at the centre of service design and delivery.
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April 10, 2018 12:57 PM
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Pris dans des problématiques de développement durable, de lutte contre le changement climatique, d’aménagement pour le bien-être des habitants, certaines villes sont aujourd’hui des lieux propices pour le redéveloppement de la nature. Le territoire de Lyon, particulièrement engagé dans ces thématiques, s’appuie sur une diversité d’initiatives citoyennes, qui ramènent la nature au centre de la ville, par des pratiques de compostages, mais aussi de jardinage collectif. Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude portant sur ces initiatives et la manière dont elles impactent le territoire urbain, grâce à la nature. Ce terrain est l’occasion de qualifier la notion de capital environnemental, et notamment la manière dont il est produit sur ce territoire.
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April 9, 2018 3:59 PM
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L’offensive du gouvernement contre la Zad vise à détruire la possibilité de vies alternatives. Et s’inscrit dans une tendance mondiale des classes dirigeantes néo-libérales à imposer un pouvoir fort.
2.500 gendarmes mobiles, des véhicules blindés, des hélicoptères, des camions, des bétaillères... ainsi que quelques centaines de CRS à Nantes et à Rennes, pour couvrir l’arrière... la France sera lundi 9 avril en guerre. Contre qui ? Contre quelques deux cents personnes, vivant dans un paysage de bocage où (...)
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March 13, 2018 10:03 AM
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A new form of citizen participation arises in Barcelona, combining participatory budgets and crowdfunding. It is a co-responsibility model called Matchfunding and it allowes citizens to start and support initiatives for the improvement of Barcelona by connecting participation and democracy with public budgets.
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March 12, 2018 10:23 AM
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This manifesto is promoted within the H2020 ENLARGE project. ENLARGE focuses on building and disseminating knowledge on the design features and mechanisms that favour or hinder the legitimacy, effectiveness and sustainability of collaborative processes in
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February 15, 2018 5:18 AM
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Geoff Mulgan reflects on the challenges cities are facing today and he focuses in a project that involves citizes in decision making.
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February 2, 2018 2:51 AM
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“Participation cannot be dictated,” Miettinen said. “That’s why a tool like the Participation Game is so useful. It encourages players to find their own way to put participation in practice.
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January 30, 2018 5:05 AM
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À Luc-sur-Aude, en région Occitanie, le premier parc solaire participatif de France est entré en fonction, mi-décembre. Grâce à un financement participatif, un quart des 220 habitants est actionnaire de cette centrale photovoltaïque.
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January 26, 2018 7:27 AM
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Des habitants ont pris en main le destin de Buiksloterham, un quartier de friches portuaires dans la capitale. Ils veulent en faire un laboratoire pour une ville durable et décentralisée.
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