Piazza Telematica

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"The term Piazza Telematica (urban planning, urban regeneration, e-government) has been used in Italy since early 1990s by a number of community network and local institutions for promoting the insertion, inside the urban upgrading processes, of the principles of sustainable development and of accessibility for all to IT tools for assuring the Right of Citizenship: the possibilities to participate in public decision processes, to access to the knowledge and training, to take part of the social local community life.

The term Piazza Telematica evokes a hybrid space indebted in equal parts to the real (with territorial components) and the virtual space that has to be considered as a whole, a new glocal (global – local) public space with a great symbolic value for the democratic interaction and for the social life.

The word “piazza” underlines the semantic significance of a public space traditionally located in the heart of the town centre or of a village and dedicated to communication, meeting, and the exchange of material goods and, at present, through the use of telematics systems and services, to the exchange also of immaterial goods (new virtual services and functions: Telecommuting, Coworking, online Training through Multi-monitor, Telemedicine, Electronic commerce and the new Sustainable mobility services such as Bike sharing and Car sharing)." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Telematica)