Tackling corruption in urban development through open data and citizen empowerment: The case of “visor urbano” in guadalajara

Author(s):  
Mario R. Arauz ◽  
Yunive Moreno ◽  
Raul Nancalres ◽  
C. Vanessa Perez ◽  
Victor M. Larios
Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Palmyra Repette ◽  
Jamile Sabatini-Marques ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Denilson Sell ◽  
Eduardo Costa

Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societies to seek ways for their cities to become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, and sustainable. In recent years, the concept of City-as-a-Platform was coined with the hope of providing an innovative approach for addressing the aforementioned disruptions. Today, this concept is rapidly gaining popularity, as more and more platform thinking applications become available to the city context—so-called platform urbanism. These platforms used for identifying and addressing various urbanization problems with the assistance of open data, participatory innovation opportunity, and collective knowledge. With these developments in mind, this study aims to tackle the question of “How can platform urbanism support local governance efforts in the development of smarter cities?” Through an integrative review of journal articles published during the last decade, the evolution of City-as-a-Platform was analyzed. The findings revealed the prospects and constraints for the realization of transformative and disruptive impacts on the government and society through the platform urbanism, along with disclosing the opportunities and challenges for smarter urban development governance with collective knowledge through platform urbanism.


Comunicar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (47) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Carmen Gertrudis-Casado ◽  
Manuel Gértrudix-Barrio ◽  
Sergio Álvarez-García

The current process of social transformation is driven by the growth of the culture of transparency and accountability, the socio-technological development of the web and the opening of public data. This situation forces the media to rethink their models of social intermediation, converting the growing open data access and user participation into new instruments that facilitate citizen empowerment. Open data can only generate citizen empowerment, facilitate decision-making and democratic action if it can provide valueadded information to the citizens. Therefore, the aim of the research is to analyse the competencies necessary to develop information products created with open data. The study used a qualitative methodology based on two instruments: a survey of data journalism experts (university professors of journalism, journalism professional data, and experts in transparency), and an analysis of selected cases of information products created with open data. The results allow the identification of a series of conceptual, procedural and attitudinal skills needed to perform the tasks of collection, processing, analysis and presentation of data, which are necessary for the development of this type of information product, and which should be integrated into the training of future journalists. Los actuales procesos de transformación social estimulados por el crecimiento de la cultura de transparencia y rendición de cuentas, el desarrollo socio-tecnológico de la web y la apertura de datos públicos, obliga a los medios de comunicación en el entorno digital a reorientar sus modelos de intermediación social, convirtiendo el creciente y complejo acceso a datos abiertos y los flujos de participación en nuevos instrumentos que faciliten el empoderamiento ciudadano. La investigación evalúa cuáles son las competencias profesionales necesarias para el desarrollo de productos informativos multimedia interactivos basados en datos abiertos, considerando que la apertura de datos solo generará empoderamiento ciudadano, facilitará la toma de decisiones y la acción democrática, si estos pueden proporcionar información de valor añadido para la ciudadanía. Para ello, se sigue una metodología cualitativa basada en dos instrumentos: una encuesta a expertos en periodismo de datos, relacionados con la formación superior en Periodismo, la legislación en materia de acceso a la información y los medios de comunicación, y el análisis de una muestra de productos informativos multimedia basados en datos abiertos. Los resultados permiten identificar una serie de competencias conceptuales, procedimentales y actitudinales necesarias para llevar a cabo las tareas de acopio, tratamiento, análisis y presentación de los datos, que son necesarias para el desarrollo de este tipo de productos informativos, y que deberían integrarse en la formación de los futuros comunicadores.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Rubio Tamayo ◽  
Mario Barro Hernández ◽  
Hernando Gómez Gómez

Massive and open data constitute a burgeoning field of study in the current context. The evolution of technology is, in turn, increasing its degree of interactivity, configuring several scenarios of great complexity in which data is understood on the basis of our interaction with it at different levels. Technologies such as virtual reality or augmented reality present an emerging framework for visualizing, representing and understanding information. Moreover, new disciplines such as interaction design, human-computer interaction, and user experience are needed to optimally configure the representation and design of data interaction dynamics, so that they can be implemented in contexts such as education. This paper reviews the current state of interactive and immersive technology (including virtual reality and alternative reality games) and of open and massive data, to highlight potential projections and propose models of data representation based on factors such as storytelling or user experience. This paper shows the need to develop models for data use and representation in fields such as education and citizen empowerment.


Author(s):  
Ekaterina Karfidova ◽  
Maria N. Komarevskaya ◽  
Ilya M. Kravchenko ◽  
Svetlana N. Polevodova

The present paper addresses methods for formalization of engineering geological complexity of urban territory based on engineering geological zoning for purposes of urban and spatial planning. Presented is distinguishing three main sets of issues for purposes of urban development complex, improvement of environmental management and assessment of engineering geological complexity distribution, issues being addressed at two levels: at the city level - mapping the engineering geological complexity to scale of 1: 100 000 and at municipal level – engineering geological complexity maps to scale of 1: 25 000 with derivation of taxonomic formula of geological hazard; at that, cartographical materials are proposed as open data. For the first time it is proposed to use the complexity index and to plot the diversity curves for negative geological processes. Results of distribution analysis for complexity of engineering geological conditions made it possible to reveal a relatively low complexity of the structural uplift megamassif at the territory of the city of Moscow. The proposed methods shall help to develop "geoecological image" of the city and be used for better understanding of geoecological problems related to the city development.


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