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Citizen Science (Catherine Lichten, Rebecca Ioppolo, Camilla D'Angelo, Rebecca K. Simmons, Molly Morgan Jones)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Crowdsourcing for Research
This book offers a cross-national comparison of open data policies in Estonia and Kazakhstan.
To make this work financially and sustainably, designers are utilizing a variety of for-profit and nonprofit business models.
It will be an essential resource for anybody involved in related industries, as well as anybody interested in learning more about this nascent technology
Provides an assessment of how political parties are adapting to the rise of new ITCs, and what the consequences of that adaptation will be
This book will help today's leaders and thinkers implement these practices in their own pursuit of creative solutions that are both innovative and achievable.
The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship
This book is the story of Delmer and his modern investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to manipulate the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of an information war, an extraordinary history that is ...
The volume explores the likely long-term effects of such uses on the conduct of politics in the USA and other nations that declare themselves modern democracies and assesses the extent to which they help or hinder viable democratic ...
This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.
This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who ‘see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making’, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their ...
Whether you're an IT specialist, a city planner, a human resources manager, or any other professional in local government, this book offers a wide array of prompts designed to stimulate innovative solutions, streamline operations, and ...
Open Data Strategy A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition.
Challenges of Online Citizen Engagement
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has expanded to over 1,500 municipalities worldwide since its inception in Porto Alege, Brazil in 1989 by the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party).
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life ...
Rethinking the city -- The urban commons -- The city as a commons -- Urban co-governance -- The co-city design principles -- Conclusion: New co-city horizons and challenges
It shows how public managers need toretain and develop their own IT expertise and to carefully maintain well-contested markets if they are to deliver value for money in their dealings with the very powerful global IT industry
And what tools and methods do commoners need to strengthen their work? These are the three questions at the heart of The Urban Commons Cookbook, a handbook for those interested in starting, growing and supporting community-led projects.
Examining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence.
This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of all facets of the Smart City transformation and provides concrete tools, checklists, and guiding frameworks.
This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland
In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.
Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources. This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for researchers, practitioners and students. International researchers and crime analysts discuss the strengths, perils and opportunities of the data sources and tools now available and their best use in informing sound public policy and criminal justice practice.
The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.
This timely reader provides an anthology of the literature on social movements, including the key texts relating to the notions of conflict, social change and collective action.
The handbook has been used by Midwest Academy since 1973 in its organizing and activism seminars
MosaicLab
Melbourne VIC, Australiawe’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement
This is an essential guide for government employees, scholars, and regular citizens who want to make government work more effectively and democratically in the digital age.
The book concludes with a thoughtful response from Gutmann and Thompson to their esteemed critics
Setting a Research Agenda
In this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists
This book uses a combination of descriptive statistical analysis and real-world case study narratives to evaluate the ways in which each individual urban variable or their combination matter in the diversity of smart city approaches around ...
This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness
Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.
Hence the volume offers an intellectual resource that expands on the current literature, but also provides a pedagogical resource to universities as well as a reflective opportunity for practitioners.
The book provides a practical and step-by-step guide that will help young people learn to identify their social action passions and plan, launch, and support social action initiatives.
In this book, a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice of deliberative democracy
PRAISE FOR SMART CITIES, SMART FUTURE "Mike and Cornelia have managed to distill hundreds of ideas, sources, milestones, technologies and dreams into a thoughtful 'showcase of tomorrow'. . . their analysis, synthesis and narrative make this ...
Service Design by Working with Youth Civic Groups in Lebanon
With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.
Shapiro brings much-needed empirical research to a field that has often relied on “10,000-foot views.” Timely, important, and expertly researched, Design, Control, Predict doesn’t just help us comprehend urbanism today—it advances ...
Instructor and sustainable design expert Scott Boylston explains the relationship between design thinking and social innovation and teaches us about the impact design can have on global goals, including sustainable development, anti-racism, ...
Major themes of this book are smart cities, urban big data, and shared mobility. This book also contains chapters with cutting-edge research on urban modeling, walkability and bikeability analysis, and planning support systems (PSS).
In this book, the real-world implementations of successful Smart City technology in places like New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and more are analyzed, and insights are gained from recorded attempts in similar urban centers that have not ...
The chapters in this book focus on the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of information system technologies and methodologies to support crisis response and management, as well as technology management-related issues
The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory.
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