Institutional presentations and engagement sessions in Milan

Milan local team (@rossana-torri @luciascopelliti @costantino -WeMake and Municipality of Milan) started working on the engagement of citizens in Opencare project.

Specifically during last week’s meeting we tried to define the processes and targets to engage.

We planned 8 events: 3 institutional presentations and 5 Engagement Sessions as a first step to outreach different communities.

The three official presentations are designed to inform citizens on a large scale and raise the interest of those among citizens, operators and makers interested in sharing the project contents and participate in various project activities. We planned:

- An istitutional presentation of the administration (February / March)

- A presentation within the forum of social policies; (end of March)

- A presentation to local makers during Arduino Day event with around 500 participants @Wemake  (April 2nd)

For Engagement Sessions  we identified 5 different communities.

Communities are groups of citizens who are already involved in participated and shared projects. We organize a session with each of them in order to identify individuals or groups that invest knowledge and time to develop an idea or a project, coming out from a need, either experienced or detected. We identified communities where sharing of ideas is already a practice, maybe not consolidated but surely active.

We are planning also 2 workshops on digital fabrication, IOT and  makers topics (March-April). Finally we will organize a co-design path with all engaged citizens. (April - May)

“Welfare per tutti” website will support Opencare local activities, communicating all these local events.

We think it could be very useful to have a shared Opencare calendar on Edgeryders so we can all be informed on local events organized by all the partners around EU. We can add all our schedule as soon as the date are confirmed. Would it be possible? @nadia @alberto

LINK

http://www.comune.milano.it/wps/portal/ist/it/partecipa/foruminiziative/Forum_delle_politiche_sociali

https://day.arduino.cc

Great work!

Well done, @Cristina_Martellosio and @Rossana_Torri.

Quick feedback:

  1. great that you engage with different communities. A recommendation:(1) document absolutely everything and put it up here, and (2) whenever possible, encourage people to document themselves, speaking in their own voice about open care. Firsthand data (experiences narrated by the people who had them) always trump secondhand data (we narrating the experiences of others). It is totally OK to write in Italian on Edgeryders. 
  2. Good idea for the calendar.  Here it is. I created it on Google, because (a) we all have Google accounts, which we needed to collaborate on the proposal and (b) easy to share, embed, edit etc. You two have full powers of to create new events and add other collaborators with the power to create events. Anyone can see events.