Dear all
the project "Crowdsourcing urban sustainability governance
- CROWD_USG" just started, follow the updates at
https://crowdusg.net/ .
The initial seminar will take place on the 15th of June
(2.30-4.00 pm) at the Centre for Sustainable Development -
CDO, Ghent University (Seminar Room, Poel 16, Ghent). A
brief description is enclosed and below. All invited !
By now, you can use this mail address or the dedicated
suggestion form on the web site to signal relevant links,
projects and events (https://crowdusg.net/contact/).
Please circulate to potentially interested colleagues!
Thanks
Chiara
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CROWD_USG. Crowdsourcing urban sustainability
governance
Open initial seminar @ Centre for Sustainable Development
- CDO, Ghent University
Chiara Certomā
June 15th, 2.30 pm
CDO, Seminar
Room, Poel 16, 9000, Ghent
CROWD_USG is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research
project exploring how ICT-people interactions are
transforming the governance of urban sustainability.
In the global imaginary cities are increasingly depicted
as the appropriate loci for tackling with a number of
interrelated and complex issues - ranging from protecting
the environment, to incubating innovation and granting
social justice. The socio-technological networks, which
progressively emerged for addressing the related tasks,
are now significantly changing the traditional forms of
urban governance. In these contexts, technologies are
often presented as both facilitators and drivers of
changes.
Nevertheless, the assumption that broadening technological
access will lead to peoples empowerment and make
participation effective is questionable. CROWD_USG
project investigates under what conditions crowdsourcing
(i.e. any open call format toward collective solution
seeking by a large network of users) can actually turn
governance processes into open and shared opportunities
for advancing socio-environmental sustainability in the
city.
This seminar will present the background, motivations,
scope and expected results of the project, by exploring
current scientific production and forefront applications
of participatory ICTs toward urban sustainability.
Theoretical and methodological approach will be open for
discussion with colleagues, in reference to the case of
Ghent.
Info: https://crowdusg.net/
This project has received funding from the European
Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship
Programme, grant agreement no. 740191. It is hosted by the
Centrum voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (Centre for Sustainable
Development, CDO) of University Ghent.
Chiara Certomā
MSCA Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Political
Science, Ghent University
Centre for Sustainable Development http://www.cdo.ugent.be
Project CROWD_USG https://crowdusg.net/
+39 3383858424
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