An overview of civic engagement tools for rural communities

Martinez Gil, Jorge (author), Pichler, Mario (author), Lechat, Noemi (author), Lentini, Gianluca (author), Cvar, Nina (author), Trilar, Jure (author), Bucchiarone, Antonio (author), Marconi, Annapaola (author)

In this research, we explore the role of civic engagement platforms as tools designed to connect various groups in rural areas for collaborative advancement and to support sustainable growth in their communities. We examine these platforms’ essential features and influence on rural communities, conducting an overview to identify rural areas’ primary challenges and the functionalities needed to address them. Our findings reveal that the long-term capability of these civic engagement platforms can bring beneficial changes in rural territories by offering a unified way of communication, collaboration, and decision-making. The study concludes with suggestions for future research.

• Language: English
• Keywords: civic engagement platforms, rural areas, sustainable growth, gamification
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 4, art. 195
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167855
• UDC: 004.7:316.334.55
• ISSN on article: 2732-5121
• DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.18077.2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 228729859
• Publication date in RUL: 17.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Open research Europe
• Publisher: European Commission, DG RTD
• ISSN: 2732-5121
• COBISS.SI-ID: 80728323

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: platforme za državljansko udeležbo, podeželska območja, trajnostna rast, igrifikacija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 101084160
• Name: SMART community-led transition for Europe's Rural Areas
• Acronym: SMART ERA