Act4myCity

Main Functionality

Volunteer Registry

• Personal Volunteer Profile: Recording of personal details, preferences, and skills.
• Dynamic Updating: Municipal employees can easily update or enrich the information without requiring specialised technical knowledge.
• Connection with Actions: Each volunteer’s choices and preferences are matched with available actions, facilitating immediate coordination.

Volunteer Action Management

• Easy Registration: Through a user-friendly environment, the employee can register the title, category, description, and audiovisual material for each action.
• Categorisation: Actions are organised by thematic area, such as environment, social cohesion, and culture.
• Audiovisual Material: Ability to add photos, videos, documents, and links for more complete information.
• Participation Registration & Monitoring
• One-click registration: Citizens can easily select an action and declare their participation.
• Real-time updates: Push notifications, emails, and announcements keep volunteers constantly informed.
• QR Code attendance register: The coordinator scans the QR Code to record volunteers’ attendance. Alternatively, participation can be recorded manually.

Participation history: Volunteers gain access to a personal record of actions, while the Municipality obtains a clear overview of active participation.

Citizen Experience

Registration & Personalisation

• Citizens register on the platform and declare their neighbourhood, interests, and preferred way of participating, so that they can receive personalised action recommendations.

Access to Information

• News & Announcements: Decisions, information sessions, and awareness-raising actions.
• Volunteering Education: Information on the values, benefits, and historical contribution of volunteering to society.
• Active Participation
• Finding Actions: Users can search for and filter actions by area or category.
• Continuous Updates: Users receive notifications about current and future actions.
• Idea Submission: Citizens can submit proposals for new actions themselves.

Benefits for the Municipality

• Effective Coordination: A unified system for organising all actions.
• Enhanced Communication: A two-way channel for information exchange and collaboration with citizens.
• Environmental Awareness: Ability to strengthen ecological awareness through targeted actions.
• Social Cohesion: Development of solidarity and inclusion through participation.

Benefits for Citizens

• Simple User Experience: Participation in actions in just a few steps.
• Transparency & Trust: Recording and recognition of volunteer contribution.
• Participatory Action: Contribution to improving everyday life and the urban environment.

Technological Infrastructure

• Act4myCity is based on a flexible architecture with:
• Web Portal: for the Municipality and citizens.

Mobile Application: for quick access via smartphone or tablet.

Cloud Infrastructure: ensuring security, speed, and availability.