Video of panel-discussion Global trends of citizen engagement in municipal planning: What can we learn from other countries? - recording from the online conference Citizen engagement in municipal planning: Latvia's example and global trends.

On 27th of November, 2020 Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS in cooperation with Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Republic of Latvia organzed an online conference Citizen engagement in municipal planning: Latvia’s example and global trends.

Three panel-discussions were organized as a part of the conference: (1) What can be learnt from Latvia’s local governments? Learning from experience. (Latvian language discussion); (2) Global trends of citizen engagement in municipal planning: What can we learn from other countries? (English language discussion); (3) Civil society & citizens as a moving force for change: How can citizens cooperate with municipality, to promote change? (Latvian language discussion)

You can find out more about the conference (in Latvian language) here.

Below you will find discussion Global trends of citizen engagement in municipal planning: What can we learn from other countries?:

Participating in the discussion:

Ivari Rannama, Tallinn municipality, Director of Geomatics Service. Mr.Rannama’s presentation can be found herepdf.
Harm van Dijk, the Netherlands initiator of the G1000 democratic movement. Mr. Dijk’s presentation can be found herepdf.
Marketta Kytta, Aalto University, Professor of Land Use Planning, Use of Public Participation Geographic Information system methodology on international level. Ms.Kytta’s presentation can be found herepdf.
Pia Tingvall, Rural developer and business developer at Coompanion Ostergotland. Ms.Tingvall’s presentation can be found herepdf.
Julian Petrin, Founding Director of Urbanista, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences’ Professor at Smart City solutions Master Programme.

Moderator: Sintija Tarasova, Policy Analyst at the Centre of Public Policy PROVIDUS

Conference was organized by the Centre of Public Policy PROVIDUS as a part of the project Engaging municipalities: promoting best practices of civic involvement in decision-making (funded by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany) in cooperation with Ministry of Environmental Protection (The event is co-funded by INTERREG Central Baltic Sea Region Program 2014.-2020. year project No. CB627 Coast4us / Piekraste mums).