L'uso di software open source nel processo di pianificazione partecipata

Abstract

Starting from sharing the needs of including the citizens inside formation processes of the public choices, the article tries to present the use of open source software in order to facilitate the inclusion. After a theoretic discussion of the e-planning and e-participation, some software of collaborative mapping and Public Participation GIS have been presented, blogs, social media, supporting systems to decisions and analysis, spatial simulation that meet the necessities of being integrated in a process plan structured in the following phases: perception of the problem and necessity of an action, formulation and discussion of the alternatives; choice.