Exploring the Smart Future of Participation

Bricout, John C.; Baker, Paul; Moon, Nathan W.; Sharma, Bonita B.

doi:10.4018/ijepr.20210401.oa8

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“…The involvement of the urban population in digital participation diverges from the rural population due to limited technological equipment, tools, and capacities for use of new technologies in RA (Radovanović and Knežević, 2014). Secondly, the more and less affluent population has a different level of accessibility to digital participation tools, whereas low-income groups, including vulnerable groups, are usually excluded from digital participation processes (Bricout et al, 2021;Graziano, 2021). Some differences regarding the extent to which digital participation in urban and spatial planning is used are recognized between (a) urban and rural population, (b) more and less affluent population, (c) young and elderly population, and (d) different genders (Cilliers et al, 2020;Pantić et al, 2021).…”

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Digital Participation Framework for Mountain Areas in Serbia

Pantić

Čolić

2023

TRAS

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Planning practice in Serbia is influenced by the transition to more efficient governance, including the digitalization of public administration. Urban areas adapt faster to new requirements in comparison to digital transition in rural areas (RA) and mountain areas (MA). This research aims to provide an understanding of the contextual factors for digital public participation in MA in the example of Serbia, with a focus on the Golija-Studenica Biosphere Reserve. The analysis is based on the contextual factors recognized in the recent literature and their testing through the available statistical data. The results suggest that RA, especially MA, have advantages in comparison to the national average only regarding a smaller share of vulnerable groups, including women. On the other hand, disadvantages are an aging population, a low level of technological equipment, and accessibility to technological advancement and knowledge. Findings suggest that future public participation formats in MA should be hybrid.

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Section: Perspectives and Limitations Of Digital Public Participation...mentioning

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Digital Participation Framework for Mountain Areas in Serbia

Pantić

Čolić

2023

TRAS

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“…For instance, it can increase the efficiency of the healthcare system and eliminate space and time barriers in the post-COVID era. This way, it is hoped that, as a new normal for cities, telemedicine will contribute to improving the accessibility of all societal groups to healthcare services [97]. This is particularly important in aging communities, which are expected to face a significant increase in the demand for healthcare services, leading to additional pressure on already strained healthcare systems [77].…”

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“…As evidence shows, smart solutions such as telemedicine and teleworking may also improve citizen satisfaction, which is essential for enhancing social resilience. The latter can also be further improved by promoting the use of inclusive smart solutions that raise awareness and create innovative platforms for engagement of all citizens in social activities [61,97,100].…”

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Contributions of Smart City Solutions and Technologies to Resilience against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

2021

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Since its emergence in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through many cities around the world, claiming millions of lives and causing major socio-economic impacts. The pandemic occurred at an important historical juncture when smart solutions and technologies have become ubiquitous in many cities. Against this background, in this review, we examine how smart city solutions and technologies have contributed to resilience by enhancing planning, absorption, recovery, and adaptation abilities. For this purpose, we reviewed 147 studies that have discussed issues related to the use of smart solutions and technologies during the pandemic. The results were synthesized under four themes, namely, planning and preparation, absorption, recovery, and adaptation. This review shows that investment in smart city initiatives can enhance the planning and preparation ability. In addition, the adoption of smart solutions and technologies can, among other things, enhance the capacity of cities to predict pandemic patterns, facilitate an integrated and timely response, minimize or postpone transmission of the virus, provide support to overstretched sectors, minimize supply chain disruption, ensure continuity of basic services, and offer solutions for optimizing city operations. These are promising results that demonstrate the utility of smart solutions for enhancing resilience. However, it should be noted that realizing this potential hinges on careful attention to important issues and challenges related to privacy and security, access to open-source data, technological affordance, legal barriers, technological feasibility, and citizen engagement. Despite this, this review shows that further development of smart city initiatives can provide unprecedented opportunities for enhancing resilience to the pandemic and similar future events.

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“…[63]). The benefits of infrastructure investments could be more evenly distributed by closing the digital divide [64] and by applying, for instance, more inclusive COVID-19 recovery policies [65] enabled through open public consultation and participation processes in the early stage of infrastructure development [66]. Such a premise fundamentally influences the design of the platform.…”

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Federated Digital Platforms: Value Chain Integration for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning and Delivery

Nübel

Bühler

Jelinek³

2021

Sustainability

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Twenty-first century infrastructure needs to respond to changing demographics, becoming climate neutral, resilient, and economically affordable, while remaining a driver for development and shared prosperity. However, the infrastructure sector remains one of the least innovative and digitalized, plagued by delays, cost overruns, and benefit shortfalls. The authors assessed trends and barriers in the planning and delivery of infrastructure based on secondary research, qualitative interviews with internationally leading experts, and expert workshops. The analysis concludes that the root-cause of the industry’s problems is the prevailing fragmentation of the infrastructure value chain and a lacking long-term vision for infrastructure. To help overcome these challenges, an integration of the value chain is needed. The authors propose that this could be achieved through a use-case-based, as well as vision and governance-driven creation of federated digital platforms applied to infrastructure projects and outline a concept. Digital platforms enable full-lifecycle participation and responsible governance guided by a shared infrastructure vision. This paper has contributed as policy recommendation to the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2021.

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Exploring the Smart Future of Participation

Cited by 36 publications

References 65 publications

Digital Participation Framework for Mountain Areas in Serbia

Digital Participation Framework for Mountain Areas in Serbia

Contributions of Smart City Solutions and Technologies to Resilience against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review

Federated Digital Platforms: Value Chain Integration for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning and Delivery

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