Introduction 1. Why smart communities are important and how they work Distributed governance and multiple accountabilities Milieu and discovery Collective intelligence Social learning 2. How can one make communities smarter Agenda for civic architects Agenda for civic engineers Agenda for civic entrepreneurs, D. Agenda for practice-enhancing governance Conclusion Notes for an address to the sym...

This article investigates the effects of job involvement, affective organizational commitment, and collectivism on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) using data collected from 131 professors and clerical workers in a private Japanese university. Results show that job involvement had a significantly positive relationship on civic virtue and helping behavior, and affective organizational c...

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Digital technology is increasingly being recognized as a catalyst for national progress and social transformation. Using an in-depth case study of social media-enabled crime-fighting communities in Malaysia, this paper explores the use of social media in bringing societal change through civic engagement. We adopt the notion of boundary object to conceptualize how social media could be enacted t...