Author/Contact:
TURAS
Expert contact: Robert Rijavec
Resource description:
Advantages:
- In order to collect opinions and suggestions an information gathering system has been developed, which provides the "missing link" between different stakeholders and levels of governance in a city. Thus, inhabitants have the opportunity to express themsel
- Main outcomes: process innovation, knowledge/data, stakeholder integration, community empowerment.
Constraints:
- Cities (and especially Eastern European ones) are faced with different traffic-related issues such as fast growing traffic, unequal spatial development, and financing of road infrastructure. For this kind of problems, there is rarely one or "the single be
Uses of this resource:
The different needs of road infrastructure users lead to diverse opinions and suggestions on possible improvements. However, in most of the cities, there is no user-friendly ICT system established for expressing these issues. In addition, quite often citizens are not aware of these problems and the relevance that their opinion and knowledge has to local authorities, at the same time local knowledge still plays an underestimated role in terms of policy development and decision-making processes.
Additional information:
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED?
FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES:
traffic department; planning and development department; policy development department; IT department; community development department
LOCAL TASK FORCE:
professional expert; community group; local or regional authority
SUITABLE FOR:
urban region; (sub-)urban communities
MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE:
monetary investments; local knowledge; expert knowledge; community trust; personnel time; public institutional set-up
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Development stage:
- Full, working product