The actions developed by PIC are founded on three concepts: smart, open and slow. Each of this words wants to underline a characteristic that future cities should have. PIC puts collaboration and participation at the basis of all its processes, and through its action aims at creating urban projects (virtual and built) able to improve communities’ quality of life and to fight indifference and resignation.

The methodology followed by PIC in all his projects entails three phases. The first stage aims at bringing the community to become aware of the existence of the commons and of its value, and it does so by involving people in the mapping process, by asking them information and by activating the community already existing around the resource. In a second stage people are asked to propose actions aiming at preserving and improving the commons, and in the third stage ideas are translated into actions. In all phases (and particularly in the last one) PIC tries to involve all actors and stakeholders and proposes itself as space of dialogue and collaboration between the different actors of society: associations, neighborhoods, Parliament members and universities, among others. PIC’s projects saw different interactions with local governments, ranging from support to specific projects and facilitation of co-design session to concrete support in the promotion of a civil project. The Central government is supporting PIC’s efforts for transparency, open data and participation, inviting PIC to collaborate in work sessions of the Parliament or in the sub-committees of the Presidency for the Open Government project.

PIC develops several mid-term projects around the urban commons, such as participation workshops and volunteer meetings, but their project on participation and mapping, called ÁgoraPIC, is continuously updated. PIC’s initiative is spreading around the world, as we can see from the creation of PIC Mexico, and is becoming known thanks to a work of dissemination (through TED talks and recognition of the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank), which allowed the project to reach a Latin American and global diffusion).

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SMG selected 64 sharing companies that provide services that are of public interest or benefit to citizens, and has designated them as ‘Sharing companies of Seoul’ over the past 3 years. These companies can use the branding of ‘Sharing Seoul’ and receive grants. SMG gave subsidies of around $ 6.3Mn to sharing companies. As a result, some sharing companies has made a remarkable achievement. In particular, the car sharing company Socar was privately funded around 6 – million dollars from domestic enterprises in 2015.

In addition, to promote and spread the culture of sharing to citizens, SMG opened public spaces tocitizens who can use it for meetings, conferences and group activities and so on. 1,145 facilities havebeen used 230,000 times by the citizens of the city of Seoul.

SMG is focusing on public-private governance model. The concept of ‘Sharing’ economy attracted attention everywhere during the global crisis in 2008. Seoul City is unique as the sharing policies were led by the city government as a city policy rather than the private sector’s. Seoul City is spreading policies with collaboration of citizens and district level governments as partners. SMG collected opinions from sharing activists, experts and citizens to promote ‘Sharing’ before starting this project.

Source: Interview to Seonae Kwon, head of the city government’s team in charge of the program; website.

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The project aims to foster local development and local business, and the returns from investments will remain in the district and will be used to finance additional activities and enterprises.