Participatory modeling is increasingly recognized as an effective way to assist collective decision-making processes in the domain of natural resource management. This article introduces a framework for evaluating projects that have adopted a participatory modeling approach. This evaluation framework--known as the "Protocol of Canberra"--was developed through a collaboration between French and ...

This article aimed at finding out if participatory processes (group discussions, enactments, and others) do make a valuable contribution in communication-based project implementation/evaluation and the fight against HIV/AIDS. A case study backed by documentary analysis of evaluation reports and occasional insights from interviews stood as the main methods. To identify values, the state of benef...

Participatory budgeting is a relatively new movement in public administration to involve citizens in civic decision-making. Electronic participatory budgeting can lower opportunity costs and engage more citizens in public budgeting. Drawing from research on participatory budgeting in particular and public administration, public policy, and information systems in general, this research establish...

The history of community psychology in Italy is briefly reviewed. The field has developed extensively in universities and applied settings over the past 30 years. This issue presents 5 recent examples from different regions of Italy of preventive and other community psychological intervention studies. They include an evaluation of a program to increase the independent mobility of children walki...

This article describes the application of participatory evaluation principles and methods to designing and conducting a community survey of the metropolitan Boston Haitian population. The findings of the evaluation baseline community survey of 2,719 Haitians are described, including an overview of the population characteristics and the prevailing HIV prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practic...

Participatory Sensing is a new computing paradigm that aims to turn personal mobile devices into advanced mobile sensing networks. In this paper, we describe and evaluate two distributed strategies for processing participatory sensing data. These strategies are built on top of a decentralized architecture composed on user-contributed machines. The evaluation shows that these strategies spread t...

Participatory Sensing is an emerging application paradigm that leverages the growing ubiquity of sensor-capable smartphones to allow communities to carry out wide-area sensing tasks, as a side-effect of people’s everyday lives and movements. This paper proposes a decentralized infrastructure for supporting Participatory Sensing applications. It describes an architecture for modeling, prototypin...

Although the process of public and stakeholder participation continues to be intensively investigated and discussed in academic circles, the implementation of participatory methods in practice remains problematic. This can be attributed to the lack of knowledge transfer on the one hand, and the general underestimation of participatory approaches in planning processes on the other. A possible so...

Introduction Participatory approaches are often recommended to improve the efficiency and sustainability of international development programs or to contribute to local capacity development and empowerment (World Bank 1996; Chambers 2010). Participatory approaches have a long history in agricultural research and development (R&D), beginning with croppingand farmingsystems research in the 1970s ...