Becoming a Wikicity

Daniel Bittencourt | bit@lung.com.br

Help cities to become a better place to live

LUNG is a technology-based startup formed to act in the fourth sector of the economy, characterized by social enterprises. We create innovative systems of engagement for transforming territories using the Social Intelligence method.

Engage cities to transform them

Old fashioned politics

New ways of politics

Add some Desing Thinking on this

City Hall

City Hall

Civic Engagement

Whats a wikicity?

http://wikicidade.cc

Wikicity
What it is and how it works A Wikicity is a georeferenced digital platform that receives input from citizens: projects, ideas, suggestions, complaints. Collaborating with their opinions and perceptions, it creates a space to discuss and reinventing the city through innovative ideas.

Multiple actors
Third Sector

Social engagement Local causes Visibility and Mobilization

City Hall

Services Colaborative politics Open Data / Transparency

Citizens

Open discussions Interaction with other citizens Opportunity to colaborate

Companies

Engage the community Spontaneous Media Brand activation in social networks

Citizens connected

People already use their social networks to comment and discuss city issues. However, 99% of these discussions happening informally. The wikicidade concentrates, formalizes and gives strength to these conversations.

System-wide engagement

How it works?

Culture of Citizenship Ethics of Care Shared Responsability Civic Engagement

http://portoalegre.cc

Some numbers

1MM
90.000
16.045
1800 causes
fans

people reached

220.000

visits

people reached per week

Eindhoven.cc

How to mobilize?

Problem

Cause

Volunteers Group

Event

Solution

Go to the streets

Cause

Shining Serenade

Thank you!

Daniel Bittencourt bit@lung.com.br