Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms

In recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve proble...

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Main Authors: Atzmanstorfer, Karl, Bartling, Mona, Haltofova, Barbora, Zurita Arthos, Leo, Grubinger Preiner, Judith, Eitzinger, Anton
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: MDPI 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176831
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author Atzmanstorfer, Karl
Bartling, Mona
Haltofova, Barbora
Zurita Arthos, Leo
Grubinger Preiner, Judith
Eitzinger, Anton
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Bartling, Mona
Eitzinger, Anton
Grubinger Preiner, Judith
Haltofova, Barbora
Zurita Arthos, Leo
author_facet Atzmanstorfer, Karl
Bartling, Mona
Haltofova, Barbora
Zurita Arthos, Leo
Grubinger Preiner, Judith
Eitzinger, Anton
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description In recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve problems and monitor small-scale planning processes within their communities. In addition, DPPs facilitate the integration of the spatial domain into participatory community planning. In this paper, we assess the most important Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs, and analyze the potential, opportunities, and challenges associated with integrating these platforms into community planning. We analyze the results of a digital questionnaire that we shared with a selected group of expert scholars and community stakeholders. We then contextualize this feedback with our experiences from the piloting phase and commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for participatory community planning within the Austrian Agenda21-framework. As a result, we identify the most important CSFs of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs. This set of CSFs should provide a better orientation on how to complement well-established analog participatory methods and practices with geospatial DPPs for the co-production of shared visions and solutions, ultimately empowering all stakeholders of a planning process to better manage their communities.
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spelling CGSpace1768312025-12-08T10:29:22Z Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms Atzmanstorfer, Karl Bartling, Mona Haltofova, Barbora Zurita Arthos, Leo Grubinger Preiner, Judith Eitzinger, Anton participatory approaches community development spatial data In recent years, Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) have become an increasingly popular tool for citizen participation in community planning processes. They serve municipalities, citizen initiatives, and other planning authorities as digital tools to collect feedback, discuss ideas, solve problems and monitor small-scale planning processes within their communities. In addition, DPPs facilitate the integration of the spatial domain into participatory community planning. In this paper, we assess the most important Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs, and analyze the potential, opportunities, and challenges associated with integrating these platforms into community planning. We analyze the results of a digital questionnaire that we shared with a selected group of expert scholars and community stakeholders. We then contextualize this feedback with our experiences from the piloting phase and commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for participatory community planning within the Austrian Agenda21-framework. As a result, we identify the most important CSFs of participatory community planning with geospatial DPPs. This set of CSFs should provide a better orientation on how to complement well-established analog participatory methods and practices with geospatial DPPs for the co-production of shared visions and solutions, ultimately empowering all stakeholders of a planning process to better manage their communities. 2025-04-01 2025-10-06T09:08:30Z 2025-10-06T09:08:30Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176831 en Open Access application/pdf MDPI Atzmanstorfer, K.; Bartling, M.; Haltofova, B.; Zurita Arthos, L.; Grubinger Preiner, J.; Eitzinger, A. (2025) Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 14(4): 153. ISSN: 2220-9964
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Atzmanstorfer, Karl
Bartling, Mona
Haltofova, Barbora
Zurita Arthos, Leo
Grubinger Preiner, Judith
Eitzinger, Anton
Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms
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title_fullStr Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms
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title_short Critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms
title_sort critical success factors of participatory community planning with geospatial digital participatory platforms
topic participatory approaches
community development
spatial data
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176831
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