Dear Andrea Borruso,
My name is Amina Hamila, and I am contacting you on behalf of the NEXUS project team (EU funded project in the field of higher education) regarding your involvement with Open Data Sicilia. In short, NEXUS (Promoting The Nexus Of Migrants Through Active Citizenship - https://nexus4civics.eu/) is a 2 years long project that empowers migrant students to explore the relationship between participatory digital tools and democracy, by innovating civic education at higher education institutions. Consortium is a balanced mix of universities and research NGOs, relevant in the field of equity and education.
I personally work for UNIMED, the Mediterranean Universities Union as a communication and outreach officer.
I found about the initiative on https://opendatasicilia.it/ looking for inspiring examples of using civic technology as a tool for civic engagement.
At NEXUS we are at the moment working on “Case studies collection” - detecting and collecting inspiring (grassroot) initiatives that aim to increase capacity of an individual to participate effectively and responsibly in their community, by relying on citizen engagement platforms that connect citizens to decision makers.
We found Open Data Sicilia to be an inspiring case that we would like to see included in our cases database. The case studies would be presented on NEXUS website, in a user-friendly, easily digestible manner, with the main aim to inspire students at our partner Universities to further explore civic tech for their activism. Main visitors of the case-study collection would be students and teachers from our University network, students enrolled at the MOOC we have developed in 2021, as well as participants of our multiplier events (conferences that will happen in Brussels, Zagreb and Ljubljana in 2022). Case studies collection is planned to be online from end of February 2022, in time to prepare selected students for Hackathon that will be organized as part of the project output.
I would love to learn more about the initiative, and I hoped you would be willing to provide me with more details. Namely, cases are presented through short description (data collected through desk research by consortium members), followed by a short questionnaire answered by those in charge/running a tool. Questionnaire focuses mostly on evaluation/reflection and the impact/success of the tool. We realised that there are many databases that focus already on design and implementation, that we didn’t wish to replicate, but we felt that by focusing on evaluation/reflection of the initiatives that run already for some time would nicely complement existing information online.
I would appreciate your response whether you are interested and would have time to answer the questionnaire attached. We either send it to those running the initiative to fill it in on their own, or we arrange an online interview, and we then transcribe the answers. Would you be able and interested to have a Zoom or Skype session with me, perhaps already next week?
I hope to hear from you soon,
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Ciao Andrea e Grazie!Che figata la mail! Una sola domanda: il questionario deve essere compilato singolarmente dalle persone che hanno contribuito ai progetti oppure compiliamo un unico questionario a "più mani"?
p.s.super d'accordissimo che sia Paola a rappresentarci! Possiamo comunque partecipare alla videocall da spettatori?
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