A group of people that attended the DCitizens Summer School posing for a photo.

DCitizens is returning again with a three-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation.

The Summer School has been designed for students studying, working on research, or interested in Human-Computer Interaction and Community Informatics; and will take place on 9th-11th July 2024 at the Creative Hub Beato (Lisbon).

Our theme for Summer School 2024 is Opportunities and Limitations of Civic Technologies. Digital technologies are often praised and credited as the solutions to all of life’s problems. For many communities and organisations there is a strong desire to embrace and leverage these magical black-boxes, but their lack of awareness and understanding of how to configure and adopt the tools create new barriers. 

Through a series of seminars and hands-on activities, you will have the opportunity to go engage with real-world challenges and collaborate with members of local communities, which aim to provide you with some of the skills to work with communities and organisations to explore and realise Civic Technologies values.

Register your attendance by 14th June 2024