Today more than ever politicians must deal with the people, and not shelter behind the walls of their palaces: better policies require dialogue and attention to the citizens.
For that reason, the Emilia Romagna Region (Northern Italy) designed and implemented a participatory ecosystem where “ioPartecipo+” (ioPartecipo means “I partecipate”) is the Plone-based tool enabling citizens, authorities, as well as other stakeholders, to contribute to the policies of the Region by discussing them in “virtual town squares”.
The Emilia-Romagna Regions aims to increase and improve the participatory processes in its territory. It does this by renewing and activating a channel for listening and dialogue with citizens through its new service portal for participation, ioPartecipo+.
This talk will show how Plone’s flexibility and reusability provided the ideal technological platform for an innovative approach to collaborative design, that allows a multidisciplinary project team (including process experts from Regional services, facilitators, participatory processes designers, UX designers, institutional content authors) to travel quickly all the phases of a co-design project.
Plone as a tool to promote citizen-driven public policies
1. agile.open.connectedPlone as a tool to promote
citizen-driven public policies Stefano Marchetti
October 2nd - October 4th 2013
Brasília - Brazil
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Policy: definition
A policy is a plan of
coordinated actions that can
• guide decisions
• implement programs and
plans
in order to achieve the
society’s and the country’s
development objectives
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4 focus groups
• Creatives, experts of digital
and “classic” communication
• Public Administrators
(councilors and managers)
• Citizens - no-profit
associations
• RER Communications
department
Focus group
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ICT Department, RER
• IP+ should comply with
RER’s IT policies
‣from the communication
perspective
‣from the technological
perspective
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User test phase
summary
• “Town Squares” Concept: go!
• The platform is understandable
• Authentication: Facebook, Gmail,
Twitter
• Interest for information related
with the territory
• Concise and systematic
organization of information
• Indications for redesign
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Plone & login via
Social Network
➡ PAS: Pluggable
Authentication Service
➡ PAS plugin for several
Social Network
(cs.auth.twitter,
cs.auth.facebook …)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/4782904694/
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Velruse: why?
➡ Privacy
➡ No lock-in
➡ Unknown authentication
systems
➡ Open Source!
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Velruse: what?
➡ Pyramid product
➡ As a service in the WSGI
stack
➡ Normalize identity
information to the
standard Portable
Contacts
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Velruse: how?
➡ Velruse is composed by plugins
➡ OAuth2 supported
➡ A plugin for each OAuth2
provider
➡ Custom plugins may be added
➡ Unified interface to OAuth2 via
Portable Contacts standard
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Plone & Velruse
• New PAS plugin: Plone with
Velruse
pas.plugins.velruse
https://github.com/RedTurtle/pas.plugins.velruse
• The PAS plugin needs an active
Velruse service
• The PAS plugin reads the data
in Portable Contacts
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