PARTICIPATION by lay citizens in technically complex political controversies often raises questions about the competence of participants and the quality of their contributions to decision-making. One way of addressing such concerns has been to establish temporary advisory bodies that involve lay people in cooperative deliberation informed by expert advice. Citizen juries, consensus conferences,...

Tourism is of growing economical importance to many nations, in particular for developing countries. Although tourism is an important economic vehicle for the host country, its continued growth has led to on-going concerns about its environmental sustainability. Coastal and marine tourism can directly affect the environment through direct and indirect tourist activities. For these reasons touri...

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...

Governments increasingly leverage social media to deliver better services to the public. Web 2.0 technologies enable people to interact and collaborate with one another efficiently and effectively. The use of web 2.0 technologies by government – government 2.0 – enables citizen to interact and collaborate with government in the delivery of public services. This exploratory study examines the us...

background: success in patient care and gain credit for the hospital depend on nurse staff competent and appetency, so they must be lead in suitable manners and it is nurse manager's duty that must have suitable personality and competency for powerful leadership. the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of leadership and its relationship with extrovert/introvert personality. met...

We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org). We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation relate to success in a science quiz, controlling for factors known to correlate with scientific knowledge. Citizen scientists believe they are learning about ...

E-Government strategies, investments, project selection, and implementations are influenced by value positions deeply enshrined in the traditions of public administration, which are in turn reflected in the everyday discourse of public managers. We analyse value traditions in the public administration literature and their adaptation for e-Government and synthesise three prominent positions. Adm...

Community Based Tourism is a tourism industry that promote community involvement (society) and environment. It aims to improve impact economic social for the in context of sustainability development goals. This article about framework at local rural level. Characteristics people who are less educated but loyal order research setting. The public participation mechanism initiated by government ha...