Building awareness and active citizen participation for water challenges

Abstract

Authors: Anna Strzelecka, Monica Pianosi

Keywords: water management, citizen engagement, POWER project, governance, smart technologies

The main goal of the project POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) is to provide information about water issues to citizens, professionals and policy makers and enable knowledge sharing between them. Local Water Community Platforms have been developed. The Platforms are focused on four water related issues presented in four Key Demonstration Cities. The research presented in this paper is focused on the elicitation of user needs and an initial consultation of the designed Platforms.