Mobile apps for urban participation are a rather new development. The literature provides certain potentials of mobile apps in this context, as well of mobile participation (mparticipation) in general. While developing a mobile app for the specific purpose of georeferenced, instant polling in urban development contexts, the question rose: is m-participation different from e-participation or fac...

In the modern age, although East Asia represents some of the most successful economies such as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and (now) China, the level of political and administrative development in the region remains controversial. One of the major indicators of such politico-administrative development is the extent of citizen participation in governance through various democratic mea...

Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual participation are often low, limited to certain sets of stakeholders, and the collaboration between them often poor. In engaging with this dilemma, we have established a new research project, Co-constructing city futures (3C), which addresses current challenges to citizen participation in contempora...

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. ...

This chapter introduces nine principles to ensure quality of citizen participation processes. Methods outlined in these guidelines rely on good practice their quality: purpose, accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and accessibility, integrity, privacy, information, resources, evaluation.

E-participation describes the utilization of ICT means and social media in order to further develop citizen participation in the information society. Especially the youth is using respective applications and platforms quite naturally for communication and interaction. In an ongoing e-participation pilot project in a Swiss municipality an e-participation platform has been developed. After presen...