Citizen Science (CS) projects vary greatly. The aims and goals of a CS project determine the type citizen involvement tools to be used, which in most cases also entail information communication technology (ICT) that facilitates public participation scientific research. Resource limitations often require adopting suboptimal tools, which, however, may come with hidden costs stemming from poor usa...

Introduction The Twentieth Century has seen efforts to more directly involve individuals in governmental decision-making. A series of policies and methods to accomplish this generally goes under the name of citizen participation. Two threads of thought underlie the notion of citizen participation, individuals as consumers of government services and individuals as citizens with appropriate right...

Governments initially used social media mainly in order to disseminate information to the public about their activities, services, policies and plans. Then they started using social media also in order to collect from citizens useful information, knowledge, opinions and ideas concerning the problems and needs of modern societies and more recently in order to apply crowdsourcing ideas in the pub...

Community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. This study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. Patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...

New Public Governance theory increases citizen participation and expands bureaucrats' roles in the work of government. Citizen creates new mechanisms for citizens to influence policy process. Bureaucrats' expanded allow broader bureaucratic discretion over implementation. When citizens' views on public management decisions collide, whose prevail? Do volunteers or bureaucrats have greater decisi...