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Volume Title: Digital Technology in Architecture and Arts - Era Challenges

DOI: 10.21608/dtaa21.2022.1728

Sara El Bayar

Architecture Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt

Social media is being used in different fields other than its original purpose, social networking. In the last decade, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter ignited uprisings and revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Community engagement and empowerment became the new buzzword. It is inevitable that digital technology is important and therefore, the Egyptian government aims to build Digital Egypt. In an approach to changing the top-down bureaucratic system, the Egyptian government promotes interaction between citizens and the state by utilizing online and digital services. The question is how can social media be used to involve citizens in planning as an approach to empower Egyptians. The paper investigates if social media can be used in participatory planning. The paper aims to evaluate the use of social media as a tool for participatory planning by conducting an online survey about transforming Gleem’s parking in Alexandria to a multi-use park.

Participatory planning; social media; empowerment

Digital Technologies