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Objective 1
amplify the voice of rural areas to bring them higher on the political agenda -
Objective 2
structure and enable collaboration and mutual learning between Pact members
Description
The Citizen Rural Project - Citizen Rural: Digital Data for Participatory Democracy in Remote Place - The aim of this project is to explore, from the bottom-up, ways in which rural citizens can engage with ‘smart’ participatory democracy. Project funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC).
This project embraces a multi-scale (national to local level geographies), interdisciplinary approach that interrogates spatial data to support rural knowledge bases and decisions. It focuses on addressing two central research questions:
1) How can robust data-driven social, economic and environmental evidence bases be established for rural geographies that do not have the same infrastructure density as urban places?
2) How can rural citizens engage with data for the co-design of strategies for the sustainable development of their localities?
Commitment's information
Themes
Stakeholder beneficiary(ies)
- Citizen
Activities
- Knowledge sharing
- Research or/& evaluation
Expected Outcomes
- October 2023 - findings of our citizen survey - understanding rural data from the bottom-up;
- May 2024 - create the co-designed mapping database for the pilot study area in Ireland, which will enable rural citizens to engage with locally relevant data for participation and decision-making.
Organisation/Company information
University College Dublin
Academic/research institutionStatus
Further details
- Beneficiary country
- Ireland