translated from Spanish: Citizen participation is key in urban transformation processes

Within the processes of urban development, citizen participation is an essential element to carry out effective transformations that are based on time, since, through the daily experience of the city, it is the inhabitants themselves who can identify better than any expert the problems of their environment.
And that is why in times of change, we need the participation of people to build new paradigms that go directly to the benefit of the community.
It is in this context and with the purpose of enabling the creation and development of solutions and proposals in the field of collaborative and circular economies that the new Metropolitan Economies competitive project emerged that seeks to create innovative digital solutions that contribute to the development and implementation of sustainable economic systems and human scale in cities.
Undoubtedly, we are committed to creating better tools that allow people to access new spaces for collaboration and new services, but they will not be viable over time without citizen participation, without people who decide which projects will benefit them the most and in which they would be willing to participate, contributing to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Region and eventually of other Chilean cities.
The call is then for people to take an active role and vote for four projects on the site www.economiasmetropolitanas.cl, which have the potential to create a better city for all.
Voting makes it possible to prioritize the creation and development of solutions and proposals in the field of collaborative and circular economies and people can find within the initiatives to choose very varied projects, ranging from the recovery of waste, collaborative marketplaces, reuse solutions, repair, recycling, exchange of services between people and many more.
With this initiative, financed by a FIC fund of the Metropolitan Regional Government, we call for citizen awareness and solidarity, to build together a better place to live.

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