Fostering Civic Participation in Democracy by Harnessing the Benefits of Knowledge Technologies

Innovative uses of AI & Big Data to enhance citizen engagement and democracy

The project will validate its approach and results through four use cases in four European Cities (Brussels, Madrid, Warsaw and Dublin). Each Use Case will be hosted in a different city, and face different target groups, with the exception of Use Cases #2 and #3, which will both engage citizens and citizen-facing CSOs. The reason for this is to account for the fact that democracy and civic participation are in essence local phenomena, requiring that participants be able to participate in a concrete rather than abstract context, in their local language and within cultural norms and expectations.