In this fifth module, you will discover how you can participate and possibly lead digital citizenship actions within your local community (neighbourhood, city, region). By the end of this module, you will:

• Know what is intended with Smart Cities and Smart Communities, and why it is important to get digitally engaged at the local level.
• Increase your capacity to participate effectively and responsibly in your local community, by learning how to get active areas such as participatory budgeting, public (e)consultations, and urban crowdsourcing.
• Get to know a recognised good practice in the field and reflect on what it takes to design and run local participation actions and projects.

This module is clustered into five units. Learning activities during the module are split into videos, reading exercises, discussion tasks. In summary, Module 5 will be organised as follows: