April 2025 –From 7 to 9 April 2025, the city of Bologna hosted the IRSPM Annual Conference, where two PAR-CITY Co-Principal Investigators presented research aligned with our project’s core themes of democracy, trust, and participatory innovation.
🟡 Digital Participation and Crisis Prevention: Analysing the Citizenship Budget in Warsaw
Agnieszka Kampka, in collaboration with Ewa Modrzejewska, shared insights on the potential of digital tools to enhance citizen engagement and resilience. Their paper examined the Citizenship Budget in Warsaw, raising critical questions about digital participation’s role in crisis prevention. The presentation featured in the thematic session Strengthening prevention and increasing resilience of service users, communities and public services through digital participatory approaches.
🟡 Co-Creation in Open Government Plans: A Comparative Study between Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Toronto
Gabriela de Brelàz presented findings from the PAR-CITY Urban Participatory Innovation (UPI) on Open Government. Her research examines how co-created Open Government action plans are developed in Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Toronto, and how these processes engage civil society and use digital tools. The work is part of an ongoing collaboration within PAR-CITY with Rocío Annunziata, Alina Ribeiro and Zachary Spicer.
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