Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the subject of knowledge citizenship from the perspective of citizen participation in their city’s decision-making processes. It focuses on a case study of the city of Holon, Israel. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents three distinct methods for citizen participation processes which were used by Holon: citizen-based consensus confe...

Despite an extensive amount of research carried out and knowledge accumulated to explain the adoption of electronic services in public sector, the issue of managing egovernment service quality (EGSQ) remains an unresolved and relatively understudied topic. To address this knowledge gap, using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) theory and the literature on citizen engagement (or parti...

A mixed methods study was used to transcend the traditional pre-, post-test approach of citizen science evaluative research by integrating adults' test scores with their perceptions. We assessed how contributory entomology citizen science affects participants' science self-efficacy, self-efficacy for environmental action, nature relatedness and attitude towards insects. Pre- and post-test score...

Citizen-led mitigation and adaptation are key to climate policy advancement acceleration, particularly within an urban development context. The top-down approach requires the of clear action plans for involvement engagement citizens accelerate bottom-up efforts In Malaysia, there national strategies such as 12th Malaysia Plan, National Urban Wellbeing Blueprint, Climate Change Policy, Malaysian...

A normative literature in political science and public administration calls for enhanced citizen participation in public decisions. However, this approach overlooks the environment that shapes administrative behavior, an oversight likely to hamper reform efforts targeted at achieving the normative goals of participation. The administrative perspective is important because public managers shape ...

Tweaking citizen participation is vital in promoting Smart City services. However, conventional practices deficit sufficient realization of personal traits despite socio-economic promise. The recent trend of IoT-enabled smart-objects/things and personalized services pave the way for context-aware services. Eventually, the aim of this paper is to develop a context-aware model in predicting parti...

Existing survey-based studies of political participation can be grouped into those that model participation in each activity independently (with most of them focusing on voter turnout), and those that model overall participation based on aggregate indicators of civic engagement. In this paper I develop and apply a new approach for the study of civic engagement based on simultaneous modeling of ...

Citizen-led local participation is considered the key to a successful energy transition, and citizens’ co-owned power plants are an alternative representative form of participation. The extent which can embody “locality, democracy, participation, autonomy, poverty reduction, justice” has led many controversial discussions. In response these meaningful questions, this study argues for focus retu...