The document describes a pilot project by Code for Europe in Rome to improve the city's public WiFi network with citizen involvement. The project aims to (1) enhance Rome's existing Provincia WiFi network and (2) engage citizens to suggest locations for new WiFi hotspots. Citizens can propose and vote on new hotspot locations, and the most popular proposals will be installed. The project intends to create a reusable model for civic participation to gather local knowledge and improve public services.
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1. Code for Europe – Rome Pilot
Improving cities’Free WiFi
systems, with a little help
from Citizens..
2. Introduction
The idea starts from a project by
Province of Rome.
Purposes:
– Improving Provincia WiFi network
– Involving citizens in this activity
3. Provincia WiFi
Free public Wi-Fi network
Access points installed in public places
( Squares, parks, libraries.. ) of Province of
Rome.
Based on OpenWisp:
http://openwisp.org/history.html
An open source software platform that can
be used to implement a complete Wi-Fi
service
5. Provincia WiFi
Province of Rome is planning to add other
Access Points to the network.
Citizen’s participation is asked, in order to
decide where to install them.
An application is needed, in order to
achieve this goal.
6. Participation
Collecting citizen’s
proposals about
locations where to
install new
hotspots.
7. Participation
Votes on
proposals
Hotspots installed
in the most voted
locations.
8. Dissemination
Pilot reusability
Reuse in other Free public WiFi
networks
From Provincia WiFi to Italia WiFi..
From Italia WiFi to Europe WiFi..
From Europe WiFi to … ?
9. Inputs from Code for Europe
and CitySDK projects
Fostering new ways to shorten the
distance between local governments and
citizens.
Improving the quantity and quality of
Open data published by local authorities.
Making use of crowdsourcing to generate
new open data.
10. Ideas
Extending the initial purpose
Creating a model that can be useful
also in different scenarios.
Try to build up a more general civic
participation platform
11. Usage examples
Publication/crowdsourcing of job offers
and training courses
Signaling of abandoned buildings, that
could be reused for social needs
Surveys on public services
…..
12. Pilot purposes
Collecting PoI suggestions from users.
Users can vote other users’ proposals.
Collecting comments/ratings on already
existing PoI’s.
13. Pilot Features/1
Web interface :
– PoI’s display
– PoI’s insert
– Voting PoI’s
– Comments/ratings about PoI’s
14. Pilot Features/2
Administrators interface :
– Import of existing PoI’s in the
application
– Definition of categories
– Web User Interface customization
15. Pilot Features/3
Application based on API :
– Data available for developers in order to
build new apps.