1. Intervento di
Ira Giannakoudaki
Al convegno
[co.05] Meet the cities: i progetti delle più
importanti città europee verso una human smart
city / Meet the cities: the human-oriented
projects of the most important European cities
di Martedì, 30 ottobre 2012 Consulta il programma di SCE2012

2. DAEM
Athens, Greece
Key words: smart square,
communities, co-decision, governance
Smart Square
more on: www.peripheria.eu/arenas/square

3. Context :citizens wishing to be heard, to communicate
their problems and be part of the democratic dialogue-
Municipality of Athens interested in citizens opinions and
wishing to involve them in services co-design and provide
them with as much information as possible about the city
through innovative applications

4. Problem :low awareness and sense of belonging, trust
breached, limited resources, citizen-city communication
channels not effective or not interactive, top-down
approaches in service production not meeting actual citizen
and city needs

5. Strategy: To initiate a living and ongoing process which
was initially conceptualized and based upon characteristics
of the real world , but then was reconceived as a virtual
place, a virtual citizen community that can be instantiated at
any city area, for any reason, at any time; To promote citizen
learning and involvement in service co-design procedures;
To remunerate citizens and visitors with mobile applications
that improve the city experience, and provide not only city
information but a dialogue space as well for prioritizing
needs in services production

6. A personal
DVS will be
defined by
selecting a
specific
location of
the city and a
radius around
it.
After this
User enters the selection all the
DVS through available
his/ her mobile information
device and about the new
views the public DVS will be
DVSs or creates presented in the
his / her own form of POIs on
DVS which will a map or list
be locally view. Also,
stored on he/she sees
his/her mobile some more
details upon
selection
Solution: The Virtual Digital Square- MySquare Application
by ATC

7. Reflections: expected benefits =simple, quantitative &
qualitative .. Smart Square most important implications= “
smart communities of citizens in a smart city context of
governance”