Energy Urbanity and Active Citizen Participation

Active Citizen Participation Using ICT Tools: The Road Less Traveled

Roumen Vragov Computer Information Systems Department Zicklin School of Business Baruch College, City University of New York 55 Lexington Avenue, Box B11-220 New York, NY 10011, USA [email protected] Nanda Kumar Computer Information Systems Department Zicklin School of Business Baruch College, City University of New York 55 Lexington Avenue, Box B11-220 New York, NY 10011, USA Roumen_...

Active E-participation in Local Governance: Citizen Participation Values and Social Networks

Citizen centric e-participation

New e-participation services are heralded as an important means to achieve “citizen-centric government”. The project “Citizen-centric e-Participation” is a trilateral collaboration project between Sweden, Estonia and Iceland, combining research with networking to enhance e-participation in three countries. The project network includes partners from local governments, experienced researchers in ...

A Ladder of Citizen Participation

The beated controversy over "citizen participation," "citizen conuol," and "maximum feasible involvement of the poor," has been waged largely in ( enDS of exacerbated rhetoric and misleading euphemislDS. To encourage a more enlightened dialogue, a typology of citizen participation is offered using examples from three federal social programs: urban renewal. antipoverty, and Model Cities. The typ...

Smart government, citizen participation and open data

The use of Information Technologies in government (or e-government) has evolved during the last few years to make the interactions between government and citizens (G2C), government and businesses (G2B), and inter-agency relationships (G2G) more effective, democratic and transparent [1,6,8]. Moreover, in the most recent years we have observed two important trends with an impact in all these inte...