Abstract
In this data description, we introduce a unique (geo)dataset with publicly available information about the municipalities focused on (geo)participatory aspects of local administration. The dataset comprises 6258 Czech municipalities linked with their respective administrative boundaries. In total, 55 attributes were prepared for each municipality. We also describe the process of data collection, processing, verification, and publication as open data. The uniqueness of the dataset is that such a complex dataset regarding geographical coverage with a high level of detail (municipalities) has never been collected in Czechia before. Besides, it could be applied in various research agendas in public participation and local administration and used thematically using selected indicators from various participation domains. The dataset is available freely in the Esri geodatabase, geospatial services using API (REST, GeoJSON), and other common non-spatial formats (MS Excel and CSV).
Highlights
The major notion for collecting publicly available information in the form of a geographical database arose from the need of our project to deal withparticipatory spatial tools utilized in the decision-making processes of local administrations
More evidence is needed to assess the actual value of digital participatory platforms in urban planning, including web-based geoparticipation [3,4,5], especially with the links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda and the Indicator 11.3.2: “Proportion of cities with a direct participation structure of civil society in urban planning and management that operate regularly and democratically”
As mentioned in the previous part, we collected a unique set of indicators aboutparticipatory processes and tools that municipalities in Czechia use at the local administration level
Summary
The major notion for collecting publicly available information in the form of a geographical database arose from the need of our project to deal with (geo)participatory spatial tools utilized in the decision-making processes of local administrations. As there is no comprehensive and compact dataset dealing with participatory processes or e-governance at the local administration level (LAU 2) in Czechia, we filled the gap by collecting and creating a dataset from publicly available sources using crowdsourcing. We collected a considerable number of indicators about the local administration processes, communication means with local citizens, the openness of (geo)data, and other domains for each municipality (LAU 2) in Czechia. The added value of the dataset does not lie in the novel use of methods of public surveying or data mining—instead, we used an intuitive and simple online tool for data collection—but in the final open-source database helping to evaluate the (geo)participatory notions of local administrations towards the concept of democracy 2.0 or active citizenship. Note: binary–it was possible to answer the question Yes/No; multiple–multiple answers from preset domains were available
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