Engaging Citizens with Disabilities in eDemocracy

Engaging Citizens in Environmental Monitoring via Gaming

Citizen science is quickly becoming one of the most effective tools for the rapid and low-cost collection of environmental information, filling a long recognized gap in in-situ data. Incentivizing citizens to participate, however, remains a challenge, with gaming being widely recognized as an effective solution to overcome the participation barrier. Building upon well-known gaming mechanics, ga...

Engaging Citizens in the Fight against Corruption

The paper aims at presenting first results from the EU-funded project entitled “Promotion of Participation and Citizenship in Europe through the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) of Transparency International” supported by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The research project is a joined venture between the Transparency International Secretariat and a team ...

Engaging Citizens in Local Government: Florida’s Challenge Briefing Paper

Citizen participation is a cornerstone of democracy in America. Among the important ways in which citizens participate are: voting, the most basic right and responsibility of every citizen; engaging with government to help establish good policies and to solve public problems and volunteering to help one’s community and those in need. These are time-honored values of citizenship taught in our sc...

Engaging Citizens and Patients in Health Research: Learning from Experience

Engaging learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (CLDD)

Commentary: I have provided considerable detail on this book, as it represents an interdisciplinary and empirical approach to understanding and helping children and adolescents with complex developmental and mental health problems but starting from an educational framework. I am the first to acknowledge that understanding such kids is difficult and our approaches often need to be individualised...