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Digital Models of Citizens Participation in Spain at Municipal Level

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Design for Equality and Justice (INTERACT 2023)

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This contribution examines municipal digital platforms for citizens’ participation (DPP) in Spain. Firstly, we contextualize DPP within a recent history of democratic participation in the country. Then, we discuss the design challenges besetting DPP from a socio-technical perspective. In the final part, we examine Spain’s three main examples of functioning municipal DPP: Decide Madrid, Decidim Barcelona, and Decidim Valencia. From all of the above, we draw some conclusions that may help produce design and evaluation criteria for these digital tools supporting and furthering grassroots democracy.

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    As an indicator of the overall impact of these programs, these councils assign to participatory budgets roughly 1% of their total budget, whereas the Municipality of Porto Alegre assigns between 15% and 25% [10].

  2. 2.

    Between 88,000 in Madrid to about 3700 in Barcelona [6,7].

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez

  2. School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK

    José Abdelnour Nocera

  3. ITI/LARSyS, Funchal, Portugal

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Gómez Gutiérrez, J.J., Abdelnour Nocera, J. (2024). Digital Models of Citizens Participation in Spain at Municipal Level. In: Bramwell-Dicks, A., Evans, A., Winckler, M., Petrie, H., Abdelnour-Nocera, J. (eds) Design for Equality and Justice. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61698-3_7

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