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...

With the widespread use of mobile phones in the developing world, interactive voice response (IVR) systems are increasingly accessible to people with low literacy and/or limited financial resources. Interest in using IVR systems as a means to increase citizen participation in society has increased. Yet, research exploring the potential of IVRs—with particular affordances, constraints, and norms...

Citizen science is a form of collective intelligence where members of the public are recruited to contribute to scientific investigations. Citizen science projects often use web-based systems to support collaborative scientific activities, but finding ways to attract participants and confirm the veracity of the data produced by non-scientists are key research questions. We describe a series of ...

1 Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, 2 Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Univ. Rennes 1, Rennes, France, 3 VENISE group, CNRSLIMSI, Orsay, France, 4 Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, Faculté des sciences pharmaceutiques et biologiques, Université Paris Descartes et Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Pa...

We study the necessary and sufficient conditions on Abelianizable first class constraints. The necessary condition is derived from topological considerations on the structure of gauge group. The sufficient condition is obtained by applying the theorem of implicit function in calculus. Since the sufficient conditions are related to the geometrical structure of the constraint surface and the exis...

This paper examines whether civic technology ICTs provide an effective method for enhancing the political efficacy of citizens and their perceived accountability of governments. Using a survey-based methodology, a quantitative analysis was conducted of the users of civic action sites in the UK, Kenya, South Africa and USA. The key question examined is whether the particularized or citizen-audit...

This paper addresses this key issue by enabling the participation of the citizen in formulating Malaysia’s public policy through e-participation. Currently, there is no e-participation framework for citizen to involve in Malaysia’s public policy formulation. Most public policy formulate by certain group of expertise but the feedback from citizen still lacking. The research embraces the socio-te...

Citizen science projects have the potential to advance science by increasing the volume and variety of data, as well as innovation. Yet this potential has not been fully realized, in part because citizen science data are typically not widely shared and reused. To address this and related challenges, we built CitSci.org (see www.citsci.org), a customizable platform that allows users to collect a...