Abstract Recent studies of efforts to increase citizen engagement in local governance through information campaigns report mixed results. We consider whether low levels self-efficacy beliefs limit engagement, especially among poor citizens countries. Citizens may be caught an “efficacy trap” which limits their realization better public goods provision. describe results from a series experimenta...

Several Governments across the world are trying to move closer to their citizens to achieve transparency and engagement. The explosion of social media is opening new opportunities to achieve it. In this work we proposed an approach to monitor and analyze the citizen sentiment in social media by Governments. We also applied this approach to a real-world problem and presented how Government agenc...

The potential impacts of citizen science initiatives are increasing across the globe, albeit in an imbalanced manner. In general, there is a strong element of trial and error in most projects, and the comparison of best practices and project structure between different initiatives remains difficult. In Brazil, the participation of volunteers in environmental research is limited. Identifying the...

'Citizen participation' includes various participatory techniques and is frequently viewed as an unproblematic and important social good when used as part of the regulation of the innovation and implementation of science and technology. This is perhaps especially evident in debates around 'anticipatory governance' or 'upstream engagement'. Here, we interrogate this thesis using the example of t...

Anniversaries provide great opportunities to celebrate achievements, look into the future, and do some self-reflection. I have honour of doing so in a specific field science communication that I’m familiar with: citizen communication, especially with European focus. hope this commentary prompts others who are experts their regions world also reflect on past future for growing field.