Advances in technology increasingly empowered citizens to become active seekers and
even co-producers of e-government information and services rather than being only passive …

What are the similarities and differences between crowdsourcing and sharing economy?
What factors influence their use in developing countries? In light of recent developments in …

Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving and applied in situations where ideas, labour, opinion or
expertise of large groups of people is used. Crowdsourcing is now used in various policy …

If elections were invented today, they would probably be referred to as “crowdsourcing the
government.” First coined in a 2006 issue of Wired magazine (Howe, 2006), the term …

Citizen participation is deemed to be crucial for sustainability and resilience planning.
However, generational equity has been missing from recent academic discussions …

Digitalization has affected politics in manifold ways, which result from the broad variety of
technologies the term comprises. The Internet and, more recently, social media have, for …

This essay examines the role of civic tech in contemporary Russian governance through a
data-driven analysis of the 'Active Citizen'platform deployed in Moscow. It shows that the …

Immer häufiger werden bei Entscheidungsprozessen in Politik und Verwaltung
Möglichkeiten geschaffen, Bürger online zu beteiligen. Dabei entsprechen die …

The devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake unfolded the co-evolution of a proactive civic
engagement and extensive application of web-based information and communication …

Asmolov offers a conceptual framework that contributes to an understanding of crisis
communication in an authoritarian environment with a significant scale of proliferation of …