Social challenge/ impact linked to:

Co-creation phase linked to:

B) Define & co-designing     

Level of importance

2 - Medium Importance / good to have

Description

From the Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging (Seifert & Rössel, 2021).

The term digital participation refers to the active involvement in digital society through the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT), such as the Internet. This participation includes access to not only the Internet but also various online services and content. Non-participation in the digital world could lead to a feeling of social exclusion, whereas a feeling of social inclusion may be induced by having access to the Internet as well as the willingness and skills to use it.

Participation is important to ensure just and equal measures. Increasingly this must involve digital participation to allow the involvement of larger and more diverse actors in decision-making (Hofmann et al. 2020).  Several components are important for participation to be successful and fair:

• representativeness of 6+1 groups proportional to their 
• Inclusiveness (the opportunity and ability of all participants to equally contribute)
• Internal transparency (at any time in the process it should be clear where the process is headed and what + why the next step is being taken)
• facilitation of deliberation (participants must understand each other and take on others' perspectives).

Internet access has been desribed as a "right", and furthermore its iequality is revealed by the link between digital exclusion and social deprivation (Digital Scotland).

Scale as linked to D2.2 framework

• National
• City
• Neighborhood 
• Project Area

Data source and input type

• Private sector data from technology companies

Connection with SDGs

• Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Required Data

• Broadband subscriptions
• Density of discrete domain names and websites in communities, per 100 people

Expected Outputs

• Correlation between economic deprivation indices and participation in digital technology

Calculation methods

• Uptake of broadbands
• Soioeconomic background on those who do not have broadband connection
• Population distribution

Level of expertise required

• High

Links and references

• Seifert, A. and Rössel, J., 2021. Digital participation. In Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging (pp. 1446-1450). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Hofmann, M., Münster, S. and Noennig, J.R., 2020. A theoretical framework for the evaluation of massive digital participation systems in urban planning. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 4(1), pp.1-12.
• Morrison, C., 2016. Digital participation: a national framework for local action. Digital Scotland. 
• white_paper_vf-final-march2020.pdf (asu.edu)
• Seele, P., Jia, C.D. and Helbing, D., 2019. The new silk road and its potential for sustainable development: how open digital participation could make BRI a role model for sustainable businesses and markets. Asian journal of sustainability and social responsibility, 4(1), pp.1-7.