Participating in Discourse

The sustainable socioeconomic development of communities calls for effective communication, cooperation, collaboration, and coordination of common action by the enablers and the users of the built environment. The mobilization of citizens and other stakeholders to take civic action at the community level is critical for protecting, developing, managing, and operating the local built environment.

A community’s stakeholders must actively participate and interact to advance the sustainable development and use of land, buildings and infrastructure.  Stakeholder participation influences community decisions and allows for the engagement of the community in decision-making and for stakeholders to exercise their civic responsibility to manage, control, and govern the local built environment.

Development stakeholders include all individuals and groups that can affect, be affected by or believe to be affected by a project during its life cycle and/or its output and can influence its success. Community development stakeholders include local, regional, and national governments; businesses and their stakeholders; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs/CSOs); and citizens.

Register to engage and interact with the speakers and exhibitors who will present their services and solutions for the sustainable development of communities at the forum.