Ingrid E. Andersson (Sweden)
IKED
Research
Ms Ingrid Andersson, Senior Expert at IKED, holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from HEC Paris, with a major in Differentiation and Innovation through Services. Her focus areas include business development, innovation strategies and tailoring to special customer needs and co-creation. In URBiNAT, she is responsible for community engagement in support of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), applying behavioural-change methodology in digital communication. Further, she has many years' experience of developing “zero-emissions” eco-houses and local community development. In collaboration with Japanese partners, she established the "Swedish Ecovillage" in Nagoya, Japan, based on exports from Sweden of tailor-made pre-manufactured houses and comprising a self-reliant ecosystem embedding renewable energy systems as well as water- and waste-management. As a serial entrepreneur, she engages in mentorship of women entrepreneurs, facilitating private equity and business angel investment. She is a member of the OECD-MENA Women´s Business Forum. In a research and action project coordinated by Qatar University, funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), she is responsible for cross-border linking of business incubators, notably between Europe and the Middle East. Among other positions, she is a board member at the Qatar Investment Fund, and a member of the Steering committee of the Global Forum,

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: MOBILISING DIGITAL ENABLERS FOR CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN REGENERATION : MOBILISING DIGITAL ENABLERS FOR CITIZEN MOBILIZING DIGITAL ENABLERS FOR CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN REGENERATION

Session Name
0380 - Academic Sessions - Circular 05: Governance & transitions Participatory & co-creating urban transformations (ID 65)
Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/23/2022
Session Time
04:00 PM - 05:40 PM
Room

Hall B

Presenter
Lecture Time
04:30 PM - 04:40 PM

Abstract

Abstract Body

Abstract: Mobilising Digital Enablers for Citizen
Engagement in Urban Regeneration

Authors: Ingrid Andersson[1], Thomas Andersson1, Emma Björner[2]

The rise of the smart city has come to signify the application of ICT and digitalisation in urban regeneration, spanning utilities, the workplace, social life, and so forth. The strong attention and large resources devoted to the smart city are, however, paralleled by hurdles and setbacks emanating from, e.g., the influence of narrow expertise and/or vested interests. A voluminous literature has considered issues in identifying and meeting with citizens’ needs, and/or lacking requirements for achieving relevance in addressing fundamental challenges in urban development, such as under-representation by disadvantaged groups, fragmentation, and polarisation. During the recent on-set of COVID-19, increased benefits of digital communication blend with new concerns and drawbacks, such as fatigue, risk of conformity, and

mismatch between technical requirements and user skills.

Observing limitations in the mainstream approach, conceptually as well as practically, the paper revisits the rationale for mobilising ‘digital enablers’. It distinguishes four building blocks, namely purpose, method, content, and tools. Further drawing on the URBiNAT project, featuring an ongoing parallel mapping and practical application of digital enablers in shaping constructive “Communities-of-Interest” in interlinked cities, it explores the prerequisites for digital enablers to leverage citizen engagement and genuine participation in urban regeneration. Extending from there, it considers ways forward to draw on the diverse strengths of digital enablers, with synergies between inclusion, relevant targeting tailored to the local context, and the realization of aggregate benefits from inter-linkages such as those associated with Healthy Corridors. It concludes by setting out directions for next stage operationalisation of digital enablers in support of more effective learning processes and practical lessons of high general validity.

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