Summer Series: Active Citizens, Community Engagement and Participation in Smart Communities, with Katya Petrikevich

Hi #smartcommunity friends. Welcome back to the Summer Series here on the Smart Community Podcast. As you know, we're taking a little break from new content over the Australian summer holidays, and instead we are sharing the replays of a few of your all time favourite episodes. This week we're sharing my interview with Katya Petrikevich from Episode 231 which was released in May of this year. In this episode of the Smart Community Podcast I have a great conversation with Katya, the Co Founder and International Director of the two companies; Participation Factory a consultancy that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design, and Civic Port, a database helping connect cities, towns, and other governing institutions with the Civic Tech companies. We begin our discussion talking about Katya's background, her passion for human rights, specifically women's rights and inclusivity and Katya tells us what a Smart Community is to her. Katya then shares with us her insights into the upward trend of participation, community engagement and inclusivity. We discuss Civic Technology as a tool for dialogue and communication with the community before Katya shares with us the projects her two companies are currently working on. We finish our conversation talking about the importance of systematic and continuous participation with communities. Katya tells us about the 'City Coordinators of Prague' project and finally we discuss the growth of the emerging trends of 'living data', participation and Civic Tech. I also have an update from Katya, since the time of the recording, she has been engaged in various projects in the Czech Republic and abroad including supporting the delivery of the Conference on the Future of Europe as a facilitator of the Panel "Stronger Economy, Social Justice, Jobs, Youth, Sport, Culture and Education, and Digital Transformation." In addition to this, she is currently serving as a member of a Civic Tech Review Committee organized by People Powered. Her work as its member supports the development of the Digital Participation Platforms Guide and provides assessment to the best Digital Participation Platforms. She has also presented at several events and provided expertise on the topics of Public Participation, Community Engagement, and Citizen Data including at Tech Camp Chile and Local Labs 2021. We will be sure to get Katya back on the show in future for a full update on what she has been up to and how our thinking has progressed since our conversation. But in the meantime, as always, we hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it! Find the full show notes at: www.mysmart.community Connect with Katya via LinkedIn or email katya@participationfactory.com Connect with me via email:...