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Crowdmapping: Inclusive Cities and Evaluation

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Abstract

Recent technological innovations are redefining some key steps in the disciplines dealing with urban changes and the evaluation processes connected to the decision-making support system. Moreover, the voluntary input of community stakeholders has, over time, become the procedural center of most decision-making nodes. In addition to traditional participatory techniques, technology is enabling a new phase of less wasteful citizenship practices, where the participatory contribution is the provision of knowledge-based local knowledge the return of data based on voluntary contribution. This is the case of crowdsourcing, a web model based on open and voluntary collaboration in investigation or research by an indefinite and large group of people, aimed at building an informational mapping.

The paper aims to return some of the recent applications of crowdmapping by highlighting the possible contributions that these processes can make to the implementation of information in the service of project evaluation tools.

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  1. 1.

    There is a tendency to refer to Web 2.0 as the set of all online applications that allow a high level of site-user interaction such as social media, forums etc.

  2. 2.

    Some of the sub-categories in the literature are: crowdfunding (collective financing), crowdcreation (collective creativity), crowdvoting (collective voting), crowdwisdom (collective wisdom), crowd-shipping (collective shipping services), crowd-solving (col-lective problem-solving).

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    The CIRCO project maps can be found at the following address: https://laboratoriocirco.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/mappe/; CIRCO is a research lead by proff. Francesco Careri e Fabrizio Finucci with Chiara Luchetti, Alberto Marzo, Sara Monaco, Serena Olcuire, Enrico Perini, Maria Rocco.

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  5. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

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Finucci, F., Masanotti, A.G. (2023). Crowdmapping: Inclusive Cities and Evaluation. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37129-5_7

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