... public participation and conduct crowdsourcing. Design/methodology/approach – This framework has been developed through cooperation with public sector employees experienced in public policy-making, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques: semi-structured focus group discussions...

...Yannis Charalabidis; Euripidis N. Loukis; Aggeliki Androutsopoulou; Vangelis Karkaletsis; Anna Triantafillou Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop a novel approach to e-participation, which is based on “passive crowdsourcing” by government agencies, exploiting the extensive political...

... Citizen participation Crowdsourcing Transparency Accountability Social media Collaboration Though a number of nations have only begun to focus on openness issues in recent decades, transparency and the right to access government information are now internationally regarded as essential...