“This strong interconnection shows how the City of Bologna values online civic participation as a tool for enhancing offline civic participation. Iperbole_Comunità is a space, both static and interactive, which is aimed at promoting and facilitating the transparency of the process of definition of the pacts of collaboration. The civic pacts’ proposals and the final version of the pacts are published on Iperbole_Comunità. It also hosts an interactive space allowing the users to interact on the platform and discuss over the pacts of collaboration and on potential urban commons problems.” (E. De Nictolis, Ivana Pais)

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The Barcelona City Council, responding to a citizen and political demand, has launched a participatory process to change the rules governing citizen participation. The process is impulsed by a committee formed by all municipal groups, entities and experts.
The Committee of Government has approved the draft regulation starting with the first approval of the proposed legislation of the Ciutadana Participation Regulatory Rules.The President’s Committee has approved the initial text of the Ciutadana Participation Regulation.When the Presidential Committee adopts the proposal, it will be subject to public consultation for a period of three months.The year 2013-2014 will see the completion of a process to revise the legislation to bring it into line with social reality, which will not be opened in plenary for lack of political consensus. Some of the entities that want to take part in this process have asked the Council to resume a participatory process for revising the legislation, and, in response to these requests, this process has begun. This is a process that requires a full and political consensus, which is why a broad and representative steering committee has been set up, comprising the main political groups, second-tier entities and recognised experts in the field
The Highlight programs are : Cessation of public areas and information areas at the communication mechanisms, Community support, Civic management of equipment and municipal services, Facilitating the declaration of public utility, technical support for participation…

Paper: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/participaciociutadana/sites/default/files/documents/1_en_iniciatives_orgcc.pdf

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The final goal is to have at least one of this buildings per district. Until now, five spaces on 4 districts (Arganzuela, Fuencarral, Chamberí y Barajas) were given to 40 associations to develop their activities.

In the meanwhile, the Municipality is detecting empty public spaces all around the city to be transfer the right of use by civil association and to do a public map of this buildings. Also, they are preparing a new legal regulation for the self-organizing that will address the transfer of spaces, activities that respond to the new needs that can be detected by the associative fabric and those that the Administration does not reach or the implementation of novel mechanisms of Access to municipal resources.