Hi guys, I am very happy to see you again
and welcome you to the final module of
our online course.
You have learned so much up to now, and you
must be incredibly excited to
finalize your preparation.
So now you
will learn
about how to produce a change in your local
areas and communities.
How to do so?
Well first of all, you will
start learning about the concept of
smart cities and smart communities
and afterwards you will learn about how
to apply
e-participation mechanisms at your
disposal to those concepts.
So this module will focus on three main
themes
that are incredibly important.
First of
all, you will learn about the
participatory budgeting
which entails that citizens can have a
say on how the budgets of their cities
are spent.
The second concept relates to the public
consultations,
a way for you to propose ideas to the
government of your city.
Last but not
least you will learn about
urban crowdsourcing, which is a way to
gather citizens’ ideas
and inputs that are collected online.
If I were you, I would already start
studying, come on, let's go!