Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Zolotov, Mijail Naranjo; Oliveira, Tiago; Kray, Christian; Casteleyn, Sven Continued intention to use online participatory budgeting: The effect of empowerment and habit Inproceedings In: ICEGOV '18 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. Galway, Ireland — April 04 - 06, 2018 , pp. 209-216 , ACM, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5421-9. @inproceedings{Zolotov2018b, title = {Continued intention to use online participatory budgeting: The effect of empowerment and habit}, author = {Mijail Naranjo Zolotov and Tiago Oliveira and Christian Kray and Sven Casteleyn}, isbn = { 978-1-4503-5421-9}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-11-01}, booktitle = {ICEGOV '18 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. Galway, Ireland — April 04 - 06, 2018 }, pages = {209-216 }, publisher = {ACM}, abstract = {Online participatory budget, an e-participation platform to engage citizens in decision-making processes, has become more popular in the last decade in several cities across Europe. Nevertheless, to assure its continuity of use and keep the citizens' engagement over time remains a challenge year by year for the local governments. This paper explores the effect of empowerment and habit on the continued intention to use online participatory budget considering the individual differences by age and gender. We develop a research model that is evaluated using structural equation modelling based on the responses of 370 citizens that experienced the online participatory budget in the city of Lisbon, which was the first capital in Europe to implement the online platform in 2008. Results suggest that competence, meaning, and habit positively influence the continued intention to use online participatory budgeting, and that meaning has a stronger effect on older men than younger women. The paper discusses the implications for local governments.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Online participatory budget, an e-participation platform to engage citizens in decision-making processes, has become more popular in the last decade in several cities across Europe. Nevertheless, to assure its continuity of use and keep the citizens' engagement over time remains a challenge year by year for the local governments. This paper explores the effect of empowerment and habit on the continued intention to use online participatory budget considering the individual differences by age and gender. We develop a research model that is evaluated using structural equation modelling based on the responses of 370 citizens that experienced the online participatory budget in the city of Lisbon, which was the first capital in Europe to implement the online platform in 2008. Results suggest that competence, meaning, and habit positively influence the continued intention to use online participatory budgeting, and that meaning has a stronger effect on older men than younger women. The paper discusses the implications for local governments. |
Portela, Manuel; Acedo-Sánchez, Albert; Granell-Canut, Carlos Looking for “in-between” places Journal Article In: Media theory, 2 (1), pp. 108-133, 2018, ISSN: 2557-826X. @article{Portela2018, title = {Looking for “in-between” places}, author = {Manuel Portela and Albert Acedo-Sánchez and Carlos Granell-Canut}, url = {http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/38}, issn = {2557-826X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-07-13}, journal = {Media theory}, volume = {2}, number = {1}, pages = {108-133}, abstract = {This article develops the concept of “in-between” places in relation to the study of language, perceptions and memories within the broader mediation of cartography. We held an empirical qualitative study in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, where a group of participants (1) performed a web map-survey to identify the spatial dimensions of their sense of place, (2) had a joint discussion about the representations and memories associated with their chosen places, and, finally, (3) took a go-along walk to obtain a deeper definition and characterization of them. Results suggest that analog and digital maps generate different virtual images of space, while the navigational use of digital maps in particular generates multiple representations of the territory. The mediation of different narrations and the description of encounters within the Person-Place-Process triad helped us to establish the importance of in-between places for a complete conceptualization of place.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This article develops the concept of “in-between” places in relation to the study of language, perceptions and memories within the broader mediation of cartography. We held an empirical qualitative study in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, where a group of participants (1) performed a web map-survey to identify the spatial dimensions of their sense of place, (2) had a joint discussion about the representations and memories associated with their chosen places, and, finally, (3) took a go-along walk to obtain a deeper definition and characterization of them. Results suggest that analog and digital maps generate different virtual images of space, while the navigational use of digital maps in particular generates multiple representations of the territory. The mediation of different narrations and the description of encounters within the Person-Place-Process triad helped us to establish the importance of in-between places for a complete conceptualization of place. |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/
