In recent years, “Bottom-up Planning Approach” has been widely accepted and expanded from planning theorists. Citizen participation becomes more important in decision-making in informal settlements. Many of previous projects and strategies due to ignorance of citizen participation, have been failed facing with informal settlements and in some cases lead physical expansion of these neighbourhood...

Citizen science-the involvement of volunteers in data collection, analysis and interpretation-simultaneously supports research and public engagement with science, and its profile is rapidly rising. Citizen science represents a diverse range of approaches, but until now this diversity has not been quantitatively explored. We conducted a systematic internet search and discovered 509 environmental...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the subject of knowledge citizenship from the perspective of citizen participation in their city’s decision-making processes. It focuses on a case study of the city of Holon, Israel. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents three distinct methods for citizen participation processes which were used by Holon: citizen-based consensus confe...

Despite an extensive amount of research carried out and knowledge accumulated to explain the adoption of electronic services in public sector, the issue of managing egovernment service quality (EGSQ) remains an unresolved and relatively understudied topic. To address this knowledge gap, using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) theory and the literature on citizen engagement (or parti...

A mixed methods study was used to transcend the traditional pre-, post-test approach of citizen science evaluative research by integrating adults' test scores with their perceptions. We assessed how contributory entomology citizen science affects participants' science self-efficacy, self-efficacy for environmental action, nature relatedness and attitude towards insects. Pre- and post-test score...

A normative literature in political science and public administration calls for enhanced citizen participation in public decisions. However, this approach overlooks the environment that shapes administrative behavior, an oversight likely to hamper reform efforts targeted at achieving the normative goals of participation. The administrative perspective is important because public managers shape ...

Tweaking citizen participation is vital in promoting Smart City services. However, conventional practices deficit sufficient realization of personal traits despite socio-economic promise. The recent trend of IoT-enabled smart-objects/things and personalized services pave the way for context-aware services. Eventually, the aim of this paper is to develop a context-aware model in predicting parti...

Existing survey-based studies of political participation can be grouped into those that model participation in each activity independently (with most of them focusing on voter turnout), and those that model overall participation based on aggregate indicators of civic engagement. In this paper I develop and apply a new approach for the study of civic engagement based on simultaneous modeling of ...

Unconformity and distrust are the results of sociopolitical attempt aimed to socially economically evolve under Top-Down system, finding that “there is no hell like a small town,” Colombian expression meaning despite size social group, its problems could be as big those metropolis. Aipe one Huila’s municipalities benefited from oil bonanza, inversely proportional social, economic, environmental...