Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms
In recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve proble...
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| author | Karl Atzmanstorfer Mona Bartling Barbora Haltofová Leo Zurita-Arthos Judith Grubinger-Preiner Anton Eitzinger |
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| description | In recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve problems and monitor small-scale planning processes within their communities. In addition, DPPs facilitate the integration of the spatial domain into participatory community planning. In this paper, we assess the most important Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs, and analyze the potential, opportunities, and challenges associated with integrating these platforms into community planning. We analyze the results of a digital questionnaire that we shared with a selected group of expert scholars and community stakeholders. We then contextualize this feedback with our experiences from the piloting phase and commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for participatory community planning within the Austrian Agenda21-framework. As a result, we identify the most important CSFs of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs. This set of CSFs should provide a better orientation on how to complement well-established analog participatory methods and practices with geospatial DPPs for the co-production of shared visions and solutions, ultimately empowering all stakeholders of a planning process to better manage their communities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-40dd52b1e55645ff876bc5d7250474342025-08-20T02:18:16ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642025-04-0114415310.3390/ijgi14040153Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory PlatformsKarl Atzmanstorfer0Mona Bartling1Barbora Haltofová2Leo Zurita-Arthos3Judith Grubinger-Preiner4Anton Eitzinger5Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, AustriaOFFIS—Institute for Information Technology, Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, GermanyDepartment of Management and Marketing, Thomas Bata University Zlin, nám. T. G. Masaryka 5555, 76001 Zlin, Czech RepublicGeoCentro-Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Av. Diego de Robles & Vía Interoceánica, Cumbayá 170901, EcuadorDepartment of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, AustriaInternational Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Palmira Campus Km 17 vía Cali, Palmira 763537, ColombiaIn recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve problems and monitor small-scale planning processes within their communities. In addition, DPPs facilitate the integration of the spatial domain into participatory community planning. In this paper, we assess the most important Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs, and analyze the potential, opportunities, and challenges associated with integrating these platforms into community planning. We analyze the results of a digital questionnaire that we shared with a selected group of expert scholars and community stakeholders. We then contextualize this feedback with our experiences from the piloting phase and commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for participatory community planning within the Austrian Agenda21-framework. As a result, we identify the most important CSFs of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs. This set of CSFs should provide a better orientation on how to complement well-established analog participatory methods and practices with geospatial DPPs for the co-production of shared visions and solutions, ultimately empowering all stakeholders of a planning process to better manage their communities.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/4/153participatory community planninggeospatial digital participatory platforms (DPPs)critical success factors (CSFs) |
| spellingShingle | Karl Atzmanstorfer Mona Bartling Barbora Haltofová Leo Zurita-Arthos Judith Grubinger-Preiner Anton Eitzinger Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information participatory community planning geospatial digital participatory platforms (DPPs) critical success factors (CSFs) |
| title | Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms |
| title_full | Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms |
| title_fullStr | Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms |
| title_short | Critical Success Factors of Participatory Community Planning with Geospatial Digital Participatory Platforms |
| title_sort | critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms |
| topic | participatory community planning geospatial digital participatory platforms (DPPs) critical success factors (CSFs) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/4/153 |
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