Activist-collaborative participation using digital cartographies

Abstract

This article discusses how the use of digital cartography, in the context of ICT, enables collaborative forms of production and sharing of information about cities in collective creation processes. We present theoretical-critical foundations on participation and collaboration in the digital cartography and information production, and discuss examples of platforms, which take advantage of the activism and social media dynamics and use collaborative digital tools to represent spatial data. In the end, one can assume that collective mapping and online collaboration can contribute to foster emergent forms of civil society participation and organization.