What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policymaking? This article begins to
answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the …

Citizen sensing, or the practice of monitoring environments through low-cost and do-it-
yourself (DIY) digital technologies, is often structured as an individual pursuit. The very term …

Several projects have been developed in Europe addressing the 'Smartness' of Cities. This
concept is normally associated with sustainable economic development and high quality of …

Citizens play a central role in smart cities, both as the users of the services delivered by the
city and as active participants in the initiatives aimed at making cities smarter. By assuming …

While previously public policy making was predominantly technocratic, based mainly on 'first
generation'approaches employing mathematical optimization algorithms, in the last thirty …

In this paper, we draw on material from a participatory design project that focused on the
practices, infrastructures, and technologies used for creating and sharing information about …

This conceptual paper looks at the online behavior known as lurking, the value of lurking
and how it contributes to e-participation and innovation in public administrations. Online …

Recognising their growing role in public services, this article draws on the notion of
'enactment'to argue that the internet and social media (I & SM) need to be understood in …

This paper is based on empirical research on the implementation of a series of online
services inspired by the logic of the'social web'in the City of Venice. The empirical research …

There is a great potential for creating public value by engaging and getting citizens to
collaborate together with governments in public activities. E-government and open …