Democracies of the globalised world has been have been striving towards citizen empowerment in the recent decade where E-Governance is perceived as a facilitator. Democratic governments in general feel that being accessible online 24/7 to the average citizen not only makes them transparent, but also empowers the average citizen. In this process, citizen data privacy, information sharing across ...

In this article, I discuss citizen orientated public management in relation to extant frameworks and theories in public management and organization research, including the role of the public servant, collaborative public management, citizen coproduction, and relational bureaucracy. Following the discussion, I hypothesize about the relationship between public organizations’ citizen orientations ...

This article presents survey of different e-government frameworks. After the new technologies that have been happened in the last decade therefore all countries move towards updating and developing their government into electronic government (egovernment). E-Government has become a global phenomenon. There have been some great innovations in e-government over the last decade. Some governments c...

Online Citizen Science platforms are good examples of socio-technical systems where technology-enabled interactions occur between scientists and the general public (volunteers). Citizen Science platforms usually host multiple Citizen Science projects, and allow volunteers to choose the ones to participate in. Recent work in the area has demonstrated a positive feedback loop between participatio...

Background Scientific field observation by members of the public is known as citizen science and has become popular all across the world. Citizen science is advantageous for collecting large amounts of scientific data and can be seen as a crowdsourcing approach to data collection. Information and communications technology is enhancing the availability of citizen science. Mobile devices, such as...

Citizen Participation in Urban Policy by Charles E. Hillman Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on May 9, 1974 in partial fufillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science. Citizen participation has always been a hallowed concept in our form of liberal democracy. It not only legitimizes the political process but is also a strong force for citizen educati...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between citizen engagement in various public participation programs and the participants’ assessment of transparency in local government. To examine this relationship, the study focused on three aspects of citizen participation: (1) citizen engagement in participation programs generally, (2) online versus offline participation, and (3) o...

Surveys concerned with human values, economic utilities, organisational features, customer or citizen satisfaction, or with preferences or choices among a set of items may aim at estimating either a ranking or a scoring of the choice set. In this paper we discuss the statistical and practical properties of five different techniques for data collection of a set of interrelated items; namely the ...

In part due to the increasing demand for citizen participation in public decision processes, participatory budgets are becoming increasingly popular in many municipalities. As there is little methodology available for this type of activities and Information Technologies are scarcely used in them, we describe a prototype of a web-based decision support tool for participatory budget problems. We ...

Online citizen science offers a low-cost way to strengthen the infrastructure for scientific research and engage members of the public in science. As the sustainability of online citizen science projects depends on volunteers who contribute their skills, time, and energy, the objective of this study is to investigate effects of motivational factors on the quantity and quality of citizen scienti...