E-GOVERNANCE SPATIAL PLANNING DECISION-MAKING &  ECTP-CEU YOUNG PLANNERS WORKSHOP 2015.
	 
	11TH BIENNIAL OF EUROPEAN TOWNS & TOWN PLANNERS DUBLÍN.
	 
	Introduction
	 
	Ignacio Pemán
	ECTP-CEU Young Planners Workshop Chair
	 
	1. Objectives and challenges.
	
	
	
	1.1 New technologies, spatial planning and participation in the     framework of European challenges
	 
	This publication contains the findings of the workshop carried out between April and October 2015 on the topic “E-Governance, Spatial Planning and Decision-Making”, whose results were presented in Dublin (Ireland) on October 15th-16th 2015 within the framework of the XI Biennial of European Towns and Town Planners “Making Cities Work; Technology in Planning Practice”.
	 
	 
	An expansion of the concept of e-planning on planners, policy makers, advisors and consultants is foreseeable in the 21st century. This will entail the application of geospatial technologies by planners for the benefit of shaping local planning and by citizens for finding new ways of participating, especially young people, in planning decision-making processes by ICT, all of which is explained in detail below.