DIPAS – Towards an integrated GIS-based system for civic participation

In the course of a comprehensive digitisation campaign, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is planning to develop a GIS-based integrated system for informal civic participation. In order to achieve this, the system applies the uniform geodata infrastructure, GDI, whose development was spawned by the INSPIRE directive. Promoted by a widely comprehensive open data legislation, Hamburg holds a leading role in Germany regarding the extension of spatial data based services. The city is also a leading player in the development of new data and process standards in the field of urban planning and construction. Previously informal participation processes represented a gap in the digitisation field while at the same time sharply increasing in the urban planning processes of recent years. Based on modules for digital on-site participation and digital online participation, the BSW is cooperating with the HCU and LGV in order to develop a digital integrated participation system. This system is to be used for digitising space-related participation processes. Employing a high performance digital infrastructure the output from participation processes will be enhanced, thus extending the options for citizens to participate in the restructuring of urban spaces.