Polisdigitocracy: Citizen Engagement for Climate Action through Digital Technologies
The article has been co-written by authors from the following institutions:• C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network gathering more than 80 of the world’s largest cities, focused on tackling climate change;• Arup, a global consultancy firm which specializes in delivering innovative and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut Veolia Environnement
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Field Actions Science Reports |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/4353 |
| Summary: | The article has been co-written by authors from the following institutions:• C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network gathering more than 80 of the world’s largest cities, focused on tackling climate change;• Arup, a global consultancy firm which specializes in delivering innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the built environment: Arup has partnered with C40 since 2009 to deliver research on how cities contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation;• The Rio de Janeiro Municipality, particularly advanced on smart city strategies and where the concept of “polisdigitocracy” comes from.The article documents some of the actions currently undertaken by cities across the world to fight climate change by engaging citizens through the use of digital technologies, based on an extensive survey conducted by C40 and Arup in 2015. In addition to being a strategy employed to fight climate change, the authors note examples of cities engaging citizens in the design and implementation of their “smart” or “digital” strategies more broadly. The article goes into the concept of “polisdigitocracy”, a term first coined by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, in 2013, that refers to a new form of governance in which digital technologies can help to renew citizen engagement while enabling cities to tackle climate change and address other urban challenges more efficiently. |
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| ISSN: | 1867-139X 1867-8521 |