The future of citizen engagement in cities—The council of citizen engagement in sustainable urban strategies (ConCensus)

Elelman, Richard; Dávid, L.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.012

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“…More specifically, the reach to civil servants was 597.6, and the reach to citizens was 113.0. The importance of online training for civil servants and citizens to promote a deeper integration of digital technologies into public services was also highlighted in a previous study [46].…”

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Exploring MOOCs That Promote Innovative Public Services

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The promotion and dissemination of a government’s basic policy are essential to implement innovative public services to establish sustainable country development and to ensure that the benefits are shared among citizens. This study focused on the MOOCs project in Thailand, and five courses were selected for exploration. Qualitative content analysis and sentiment analysis were applied to understand how information and communications technology in government services was promoted in the courses. These methods also explained the differences in the content of each course. It turned out that the strategy of improving service quality was the most-emphasized strategy in courses with an explanation of positive sentiment. The number of users who received a positive explanation of improving service quality was estimated at 711 and rated as a satisfactory result. The result of the qualitative content analysis was assembled into groups that could reveal the government’s pleiotropic orientation in their work on basic policy. All of these groups are involved in the international criteria for a government’s digital transformation, and other activities have also been highlighted as future challenges. The possibility of using MOOCs for policy promotion and education is suggested to bridge the gap between Thailand and other countries.

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“…Collective deliberation can change individual and ideological positions about the environment by enhancing individual collaboration skills (Eckersley, 2004), which eventually provide broader support to decision-making (Hallstr€ om et al, 2019). According to Elelman and Feldman (2018), the delivery of visible changes is key to participation, which resonates with Hayward's (1995) position about the association between participation and tangible environmental gains. Acknowledging PB as one of the leading participatory processes worldwide, its contribution to environmental sustainability provides evidence of meaningful improvements.…”

Section: Social and Environmental Sustainability In Participatory Bud...mentioning

confidence: 97%

Youth participation in environmental sustainability: insights from the Lisbon participatory budget

Falanga

2023

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PurposeThis article poses the question on whether and how youth participation in environmental sustainability makes a difference within participatory budgets (PBs). This is a question worth asking because PBs have pursued, from the very beginning, goals of social sustainability through the inclusion of social groups that struggle to make their voices heard, as in the case of the youth. As young people show an increasing capacity to self-organise around environmental issues, a knowledge gap emerges as to the contribution that youth can give to environmental sustainability within PBs.Design/methodology/approachThe 2021 edition of the Lisbon PB (2021PB) has been analysed through desk research – document analysis using the city council's website as the main source of information, and fieldwork – an organisation of one two-day workshop with 20 young students through a partnership between the local authority and the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. Methods were applied to retrieve findings on youth participation in environmental sustainability in the 2021PB.FindingsThe youth show a relative increase of participation in the 2021PB and emerge as a key target group in funded proposals. Convergence with student proposals suggest shared awareness on the role of youth in the pursuit of social sustainability. The success of health-related proposals confirms ownership of (young) citizens over the concept of environmental sustainability, which further relies on the various scopes of funded proposals at both city and neighbourhood levels. In the workshop, students did not stick to specific themes and struggled to connect present criticalities and future imaginaries.Research limitations/implicationsFocus on one case study necessarily limits the generalisation of findings. Nevertheless, the 2021PB illuminates pathways of research on youth participation in environmental sustainability through participatory budgeting that are worth clearing in the future, such as the role of digital participation, dynamics induced by extreme events as the COVID-19 pandemic and PBs' capacity to intercept environmental activism.Practical implicationsDecision-makers and practitioners can take advantage of findings to acknowledge the potential of youth participation in PBs to reframe the take of environmental sustainability.Social implicationsThe article provides new inputs for future developments in the operationalisation of social and environmental sustainability through participatory budgeting.Originality/valueThis article examines original data retrieved from the 2021PB. Data analysis is backed by the literature review of key democratic challenges in social and environmental sustainability within participatory budgeting.

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“…This project seeks to support a sustainability transition in urban energy use and is premised on the idea that such transitions must work directly with local stakeholders and residents. Reviews of cities where the project has been carried out suggest that cocreation with local citizens has served as a check on local politicians when the politicians sought to limit or weaken the project (Richard & David, 2018).…”

Section: Cocreation To Foster Social Accountability For the Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-Creation for Sustainability

Ansell¹,

Sørensen²,

Torfing³

2022

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the purpose of training potential cocreators in the noble art of doing together what individuals cannot do alone.We extend our thanks to our editor David Mulvaney at Emerald for his support and understanding during the writing of this book. Thanks also to Head of Department Peter Kragelund, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University for comments to several chapters and support for the Golden Open Access publishing that makes the digital version of the book freely available to everyone everywhere. We also thank the Peder Sather program at the University of California, Berkeley, for project support.On a final note, we are pleased that a large research grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark will allow us to continue the work that we have initiated in this book and contribute to the growing research on how collaborative governance can support the realization of the SDGs. We are looking forward to collaborating with people all over the world to further explore the factors that may support the cocreation of the green transition.

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The future of citizen engagement in cities—The council of citizen engagement in sustainable urban strategies (ConCensus)

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

Exploring MOOCs That Promote Innovative Public Services

Exploring MOOCs That Promote Innovative Public Services

Youth participation in environmental sustainability: insights from the Lisbon participatory budget

Co-Creation for Sustainability

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