INTRODUCTION Recent years have seen an increase in the number of citizen science initiatives, which harness the contribution from large numbers of volunteers to support a scientific project, much like other internet-based crowdsourcing applications. In some cases, citizen science projects are based on volunteer computing, where people contribute their computer resources to the project (rather t...

BACKGROUND Most countries face an ageing population, increasing chronic diseased, and constrictions on budget for providing health services. Involving patients in their own care by allowing them access to their patient data is a trend seen in many places. METHODS Data on the type and level of access citizens have to their own health data in three countries was gathered from public sources. ...

Volunteers are increasingly being recruited into citizen science projects to collect observations for scientific studies. An additional goal of these projects is to engage and educate these volunteers. Thus, there are few barriers to participation resulting in volunteer observers with varying ability to complete the project's tasks. To improve the quality of a citizen science project's outcomes...

Social media has emerged as a promising resource for police to connect with citizens for collective action. However the attributes of police citizen interactions on social media remain under-explored. In this paper, we utilise official and public Facebook pages of several police departments in India to study the patterns of engagement, emotions, and social processes between citizens and police ...

What remains unclear after a decade of e-Participation research and practice is the extent to which the social web and informal channels have empowered citizens in government-citizen interactions where government determines what, where and how to discuss. Lately, attention has shifted to how these informal channels could be better harnessed as part of a holistic eParticipation solution. However...

Citizen science enables volunteers to contribute to scientific projects, where massive data collection and analysis are often required. Volunteers participate in citizen science activities online from their homes or in the field and are motivated by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Here, we investigated the possibility of integrating citizen science tasks within physical exercises envisage...

Citizen science projects have been very successful at collecting rich datasets for different applications. However, the data collected by the citizen scientists are often biased, more aligned with the citizens’ preferences rather than scientific objectives. We introduce a novel two-stage game for reducing data-bias in citizen science in which the game organizer, a citizen-science program, incen...

Under the background of big data, citizens can freely access and use open data to create value through government platform (OGDP). The sustainable OGDP meet needs citizens. created by also improve quality life, which is great significance development society. From citizens’ perspective, we constructed an evaluation model OGDP, including 12 indicators in four dimensions: Data, platform, outcome,...