Taiguey Foundation

Participatory Municipal Planning and use of Maps

September 22, 2007

This Sunday September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the swamp in the Map" was held under the facilitation of Mr. Domingo Matias, an expert on municipal issues, the workshop "Participatory Municipal Planning and use of Maps" with The objective is to sensitize the participants on the concepts of Municipal Planning and processes for their operation and applications of GIS in the planning tool. The workshop was held at the City Library of The Swamp and was attended by 33 people representing various community organizations, aldermen, treasurer and employees of the City Council, representatives of FEDOMU, and Program of Transparency and Citizen Action.
The same was facilitated by Mr. Domingo Matias, an expert on municipal issues, as part of the collaboration of the Institute for Citizen Participation in the project "Setting the Swamp in the Map"

View the Municipal Participatory Planning Workshop Report

Latest news related to this project:

• February 21, 2008 - are now online interactive pages "putting the Swamp on the map" the result of pilot geographic information system
• January 17, 2008 - "Statistical Overview" of the ONE project experience includes putting the Cienega in MAP
• November 2, 2007 - Information system for community participation in municipal management will: process and lessons learned
• October 15, 2007 - Access to public information: learning to exercise our rights
• September 22, 2007 - Hall Swamp and Taiguey Sign Agreement on Geographic Information System
• September 16, 2007 - Data Processing Workshop, Generation and Updating of Maps with Arc-View
• September 4, 2007 - Making the Map: GPS survey brigades, with the city council meeting and list of information put on the map