Th e past two decades have seen a proliferation of largeand small-scale experiments in participatory governance. Th is article takes stock of claims about the potential of citizen participation to advance three values of democratic governance: eff ectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice. Increasing constraints on the public sector in many societies, combined with increasing demand for indivi...

This paper presents an evaluation of a mobile complaint and problem-reporting solution made for Swedish municipalities and their citizens. The evaluation is made through a government 2.0 framework to assess the appropriateness of the initiative as a citizen-sourcing solution. The research approach consists of a secondary analysis of empirical data. The researchers have been active participants ...

In the ubiquitous digitization era, governments increasingly adopt multi-social media channels for the purpose of facilitating citizen engagement towards enhanced government transparency, external political efficacy and policy success. However, little is known about the use of social media cross-channel information-sharing mechanisms for promoting citizen political engagement. We draw on theori...

As the sustainability of agricultural citizen science projects depends on volunteer farmers who contribute their time, energy and skills, understanding their motivation is important to attract and retain participants in citizen science projects. The objectives of this study were to assess 1) farmers' motivations to participate as citizen scientists and 2) farmers' mobile telephone usage. Buildi...

The paper explores the factors influencing the extent of regional sourcing by multinational manufacturing firms using data collected by interview from 50 foreignand UK-owned plants in Yorkshire and the Humber. Higher levels of regional sourcing are observed where certain demand characteristics coincide with strengths in the regional supply base. A ‘corporate filter’ reduces regional sourcing bu...

In Part One, I discuss the reasons why oocytes are needed for research at this current time, and describe the potential sources of oocytes for these purposes. In Part Two, I focus on the immediate concerns of sourcing oocytes for research purposes from consenting donors, which are issues of payment, compensation, and incentives. To illustrate the various jurisprudential strategies that have dev...

Since the development of courseware is expensive, reuse is a must. In order to reach the full reuse potential, the individual courseware modules that are stored in a repository should be neutral with respect to as many aspects as possible. In this paper, we examine how didactic-neutral courseware modules can be achieved and in particular how their combination into courses exhibiting a certain d...

Despite the growing importance of information technology (IT) enabled offshore sourcing, there is relatively little academic research to understand the phenomenon. In this study, conceptualizing offshore sourcing as a strategic decision, and using the path dependency theory, we present a strategic sourcing model. Next, using secondary data, we empirically test the proposed model to study the ro...

I first wonder whether equality of opportunity is enough. Though equal opportunity is an intuitively appealing ideal, it seems that the appeal only exists after we have all attained a certain threshold of well-being. I would argue that we have a duty of justice to ensure that nobody suffer very severe deprivation, even if we are quite sure that the sufferer is responsible for that deprivation. ...

Since the year 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have anchored efforts to combat global poverty. As we near 2015, this article assesses ICTs’ role in reaching the goals, with an emphasis on urban poverty. Over the lifespan of the MDGs, debate about ICTs and development has grown. At one pole of this debate are those who see ICTs as enabling rapid growth and citizen empowerment; at t...