Ataldegmè (espressione emiliana che significa "Te lo dico io") è un’iniziativa di partecipazione civica promossa dal Comune di Soliera per realizzare progetti a favore della comunità locale. Protagonisti dell’iniziativa sono i cittadini, i quartieri e le frazioni del Comune di Soliera. I cittadini possono proporre al Comune progetti e interventi...
In Bucharest, a growing number of city dwellers are fighting for bicycle rights and bicycle-friendly infrastructure. Supporters began self-organizing in the mid 2000’s and have become a powerful presence in the urban landscape, adopting several strategies of protest, community organizing, and public participation.
In Latin America,since 1996 Pasto municipiality of Colombia introduced a new system of participatory budgeting called `Cabildo Abierto ``or Open house, whose aims are to discuss issues and find an effective solution working together as a community. This project was successful, becoming the first democratic innovation in Colombia creating an...
Durante el 2002, el Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires puso en marcha el Presupuesto Participativo (PP), un proceso de democracia participativa, voluntaria y universal que sirve para el debate, elaboración, control y seguimiento del Presupuesto Anual, del Programa General de Gobierno y del Plan de Inversiones.
Sopot’s participatory budgeting initiative has been criticized by its citizens and has been revised repeatedly, but remains a historic beacon of democratic innovations in Poland. The wealthy seaside town of around 38,0000 citizens, devolved 1% of its budget to PB in 2011. The process is innovative for its combination of...