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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Main Authors: Shannon Lawrence, Júlia López Ventura, Léan Doody, Pedro Peracio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Veolia Environnement 2017-06-01
Series:Field Actions Science Reports
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/4353
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Júlia López Ventura
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Pedro Peracio
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description 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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digital technologies
climate change
democracy
citizens’ participation
title Polisdigitocracy: Citizen Engagement for Climate Action through Digital Technologies
title_full Polisdigitocracy: Citizen Engagement for Climate Action through Digital Technologies
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title_short Polisdigitocracy: Citizen Engagement for Climate Action through Digital Technologies
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digital technologies
climate change
democracy
citizens’ participation
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