As part of the Master’s Degree in Participation and Local Policies, a special seminar is organized every year, devoted to a relevant topic from the academic and professional fields with a strong relation with civic engagement and participation. This years … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
‘Kyosei’ is a Japanese word that means “living and working together for the common good”; it is the Japanese equivalent to our word “symbiosis”. ‘Polis’, as is well known, is a Greek word meaning “city”. Combining both terms’ first syllable … Continue reading
[Third in a series of posts presenting our “Participation Schemas”. The first post was: “Open Government beyond open data and transparency” and the second “Characterizing Collaborative Participation”] What? Intensity of collaboration This first dimension is based on Arnstein’s ladder [1] … Continue reading