Abstract. Municipal open data portals have been criticized for their inability to fulfill the promises of transparency, citizen participation and economic development that are supposed to accompany data release. Based on an analysis of certain aspects of the City of Montréal’s open data portal and interviews with reusers of these data, we show that the limitations observed stem – at least in part – from an absence of consideration of the municipality’s political and territorial reality. Three facts contribute to this absence: 1) the Montreal open data portal was designed as a public service; 2) it was created upstream, and not based on the identification of possible needs of the population or the territory; and 3) the relevance of the published datasets raises questions with respect to the promises made. These elements invite us to better link open data portals to objectives and needs that are first and foremost local, while inserting them into a broader framework for achieving the initial democratic and economic promises.
La diffusion des ateliers de fabrication numérique (AFN) est devenue un phénomène mondialisé.Principalement localisés en milieu urbain, ces ateliers ont la volonté de mettre à la disposition des citadins desmoyens de production afin de concevoir, de réparer et de prototyper toutes sortes d’objets. Depuis quelquesannées, nous avons constaté un enthousiasme croissant des pouvoirs urbains pour ces pratiques populariséespar le mouvement maker. L’objectif de cet article est de comprendre les relations qu’entretient ce phénomèneavec les gouvernements urbains. Peu de choses ont été écrites sur la façon dont les villes mettent en oeuvredes stratégies pour encourager ces pratiques sur leur territoire. Pour combler cette lacune, nous avons analyséle cas de la ville de Barcelone, qui mène une action territoriale ambitieuse à travers la création d’un réseaupublic d’ateliers dédiés à la fabrication numérique.
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