Community Informatics and Participatory E-Planning in the Glocal Context

Our research group “Participatory local community” (Palco) presented three years ago, at the Prato conference, our first paper on CI and urban planning. Since then, we have continued to conduct research on, with and by communities in which CI is being applied. As our research has produced a set of varying results and concepts around the use of CI, we wished to conduct a meta-analysis of our work by asking, what consequences does CI have for urban planning and its connection to everyday life and the community. The aim of this article is to present and discuss the results of the meta-analysis of the various case studies and publications we have produced during the last three years. We argue that community informatics contributes to the transformation of urban planning into participatory e-planning, which in turn, enhances the possibility to deal with the increasingly glocal context of everyday life.