Socio-political and citizens engagement Fiware4Water social and political role Fiware4Water project explores very much the links between the digitalization of water and the involvement of what is called in politics, the quintuple helix, which is the public sector, the private sector, the citizens, the research center, and even the cultural sector of society. We believe that science has an important social political role to play. And we believe that projects such as Fiware4Water are answering vital questions, not only with regards to water management and the digitalization of water, but also with regards to how we can make the general public aware of the need to become involved in the global issues of the environment, at a local level. This is based on a hypothesis were supranational agencies (who develop strategies) have a lot of problems being able to contact the person in the street. So what we try to do is to translate supranational strategy into municipal implementation involving the citizen and the local and regional governments and administrations supported by the local water utilities supported by research centers, and also supported by cultural means of communicating and creating an emotional response. Within Fiware4Water, we are also extremely interested to investigate how this can support the advancement of digital methodologies to be employed by water utilities. We believe that there should be a public demand and we want to involve the public in developing this. Back to content Richard Elelman Head of Politics EURECAT
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