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15/06/2021 07:53
Giuseppe Ciulla

New post at URBANITE General
Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...
Despite their specific peculiarities such as organisational approaches, problems faced and mobility needs to be satisfied, the cities of Amsterdam, Bilbao Helsinki and Messina have some commonalities in terms of potential application of disruptive technologies that can help their respective decis...

15/06/2021 07:50
Giuseppe Ciulla

New post at URBANITE General
Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...
Now, we head for our final stop; through the "Scandinavian - Mediterranean" corridor we cross Europe from north to south and arrive in the City of Messina. The metropolitan area of Messina is one of the most extended areas of the south of Italy and the first in Sicily and counts over 620.000 citi...

15/06/2021 07:47
Giuseppe Ciulla

New post at URBANITE General
Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...
The third stop of our journey is Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Helsinki is a continuously evolving and developing city. In this sense a particular example is represented by the Jätkäsaari area. The shore area of Jätkäsaari, literally meaning “Dockers’ Island”, was previously used for indu...

15/06/2021 07:45
Giuseppe Ciulla

New post at URBANITE General
Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...
Now, we head for our second stop; going through the "North Sea - Mediterranean" and the "Atlantic" corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network we move in the north of Spain, in the city of Bilbao.With an area of 41,60 km2 and around 355,000 inhabitants, Bilbao is the heart of a metropolitan...

15/06/2021 07:40
Giuseppe Ciulla

New post at URBANITE General
Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...
Today's cities are facing a revolutionary era in urban mobility; this is due to different factors, among the others their continuous growth and the concentration of human activities.To prevent and solve problems related to mobility such as traffic congestion and pollution (e.g. air and noise) cit...

08/06/2021 09:11
Tatiana Bartolome

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First SoPoLab Session in Messina
Apart to address the main objective of the initiative that is trying to answer what the trust and attitude of public services in the use of disruptive technologies is, the key objectives in Messina are 1) fostering the use of ICT technologies in the Municipality Departments and 2) Creating a Fo...

07/06/2021 14:16
Tatiana Bartolome

New post at URBANITE General
First SoPoLab Session in Helsinki
According to the Helsinki vision, for the purpose of defining plans data is vital; plenty of which is currently existing but is located in different (virtual) places. The themes for the first workshop were designed to:Firstly, define the data needs considering both current data resources and pos...

07/06/2021 13:55
Tatiana Bartolome

New post at URBANITE General
First SoPoLab Session in Bilbao
The open debate was intended to take place in three parts. The first, based on the analysis of previous experiences in other sectors (coming up from the D2.1) and the motivation of end-users in the various examples, was intended to delve into what such practices can entail in democratic policy go...

07/06/2021 13:40
Tatiana Bartolome

New post at URBANITE General
First SoPoLab Session in Amsterdam
The way in which this first SopoLab session in Amsterdam was framed as follows: Drawing on conversations, desk research, interviews and individual discussions, the SoPoLab meetings included those who had participated in previous discussions to formally consider local attitudes, challenges, capaci...

07/06/2021 07:10
Dcst

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Disruptive Methods in Participation and Governance - the case of Participatory ...
Participatory processes are increasingly employed by governments to explore new opportunities for democratic citizen engagement. These processes go beyond voting, and allow citizens and other stakeholders (e.g. civil society organizations, governments, academia, and/or businesses) to take part in...

03/06/2021 14:37
Tatiana Bartolome

New post at URBANITE General
What are Social Policy Labs (SOPO Labs) in URBANITE?
The philosophy that lies behind the Social Policy Labs (SOPO Lab) is based on the ability to involve diverse actors with different expertise’s, skills, experiences, motivations and limitations to be engaged in a collective and shared process that will allow to test multiple small-scale solutions ...

03/06/2021 10:13
Dcst

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What is disruptive technology?
The term ’disruptive technology’ is often framed in glowing terms, along with utopian promises from a market-centred ‘Silicon Valley’ perspective. Under this lens, disruptive technology is about upending existing business models and power structures, with the suggestion that this disruption benef...

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