Currently, the process of digitalization society has accelerated due to restrictions related coronovirus. Nevertheless, activity citizens in solving issues influence on decision-making development territories is becoming more and more. New technologies are emerging that allow these manifestations active position citizens. Information technology increasingly entering our lives. The problem arise...

A new regime of science production is emerging from the involvement non-scientists. The present study aims to improve understanding this phenomenon with an analysis 16 interviews Spanish coordinators participatory practices. results indicate a majority strategic and captive publics point communication as key tool for development successful Five elements degree integration required develop citiz...

BACKGROUND Major health inequities between urban and rural populations have resulted in rural health as a reform priority across a number of countries. However, while there is some commonality between rural areas, there is increasing recognition that a one size fits all approach to rural health is ineffective as it fails to align healthcare with local population need. Community participation is...

Until recently, medicine was one of the few areas in which an individual could practice a profession as a citizen member of the organization. However, in the last 15 years as dramatic reductions have occurred in outpatient reimbursement, physicians have moved from self-governing organizations with the rights of citizen participation to autocratic, centrally controlled organizations with little ...

A functional democracy needs an informed citizenry and empowered media, popular participation in policy making, a responsive state, and governing processes that are open, transparent and inclusive to all legitimate interests. Improving relationships between citizens and their government means working simultaneously on state responsiveness and effectiveness, citizen empowerment, and the accounta...

We investigated the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT, namely mobile phones) in support of citizen agency and its potential in calling for authorities’ accountability. We focused on Eastern Africa and we used a mixed methodology, which allowed us to explore the current uses of ICT to strengthen accountability and to forecast the growth of mobile phones’ adaption in that re...

Researchers have identified a range of motives for participation in citizen science projects, but have not investigated their relative efficacy in encouraging initial participation. We report on an experiment (N=36,513) that compared the response to emails designed to appeal to four different motives for participation. We found that the messages appealing to the possibility of contributing to s...

This study examines the collective use of the electronic information and communication channels and their impact on citizen participation for public discourse. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, we investigate public communication channels available for government service provision in a large metropolis in China. Specifically, four electronic communication channels are an...

This paper develops an organization design-oriented conceptual model of scientific knowledge production through citizen science virtual organizations. Citizen science is a form of organization design for collaborative scientific research involving scientists and volunteers, for which Internet-based modes of participation enable massive virtual collaboration by thousands of members of the public...

This poster presents initial findings from a dissertation pilot study on a citizen science project involving the public with scientists in collaborative research. The goal for the pilot study was familiarity with the contextual factors that influence citizen science project design, and in turn, observing how the design choices contribute to the project’s knowledge creation and participation out...