L' Infoterritoire de la Ville de Gatineau : une plateforme interactive d’innovation et de cartographie sociale

Abstract

As a local government, cities are at the heart of the process of urban and social innovation. In 2016, to achieve continuous improvement of services to citizens, the City of Gatineau innovated by launching a Web and mobile application called Infoterritoire. This tool, a first in Quebec, enables to produce maps, tables and graphs from reliable statistical and geomatic data. Infoterritoire is particularly useful for employees, community organizations, business people, educational institutions and researchers who want to analyze urban phenomena using socio-demographic data. In this article, we will attempt to show how Infoterritoire is useful as a tool for social innovation, education and democratization of urban mapping, in spite of a pandemic, which requires cities to adapt and changes significantly the lifestyles of citizens worldwide.