"Community Mapping for information sharing, crowdsourcing and decision making"

We describe goals and results achieved until now within the Mappe di Comunità 3.0 project (http://ontomap.dyndns.org/, 2014-2015), funded by Fondazione CRT, Torino, and carried out by the Università di Torino and Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with CSI Piemonte. The project aims at developing a knowledge sharing model, and an online platform, for the integration of official cartographies developed by the PA, and spontaneous ones, in a unified framework supporting information search and crowdsourcing of territorial open data. The application domain is that of Participatory Decision-Making processes, aimed at favoring the inclusion of citizens in the design of public policies and, orthogonally, a reflection on territorial identity. The goal is to convey the knowledge of the perception of places, creating an indicator of territorial identity -or many territorial identities- inhabiting the city. Within this context, the project focused on the development of a tool for the creation and management of Community Maps in order to enable different communities to maintain their own distributed information sharing spaces for the representation of specific viewpoints on the local territory. Overall, the project is proposed as a tool to facilitate the dialogue between citizens and institutions, improving communication through an e-map of the city.