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Governance Models for Creating Public Value in Open Data Initiatives

This book relies on the conceptual model of Open Government (OG), focusing on transparency and, concretely, in open data initiatives at the local government context with the aim of improving participation and collaboration.

Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have opened up new markets and new opportunities for progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy, and the environment

Untangling Smart Cities

The book drives the reader to a better theoretical and practical comprehension of smart city development, beginning with a thorough and systematic analysis of the research literature published to date.

Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals

This book serves as a vital reference source for urban planners, policymakers, managers, entrepreneurs, graduate-level students, researchers, and academicians seeking coverage on topics centered on conceptual, technological, and design ...

Four Scenarios for the Future of the Federal Government: Collected Essays on Transforming Government

What is the Federal Government's future?Will the U.S. Government meet the digital transformation challenge by becoming a model of innovation?Or will the state and local governments become the new centers of technological innovation and ...

Direct Deliberative Democracy

It begins with a startlingly basic question: "e;Why don't we the people govern?"e; In this provocative book, the authors mount a powerful case that the time has come for more direct democracy in the United States, showing that the

Critical Approach to the Media in Civic Education

This report is based on the findings of the three-year project which examined the media's influence on the lives of young people throughout Europe

Digital (in)justice in the Smart City

The book grapples with how geographies impact smart city visions and roll-outs, on the one hand, and how (unjust) geographies are produced in smart pursuits, on the other.

The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative

Open Data for Economic Growth

Many governments are pursuing open data policies. One of the key policy drivers has been to use open data to drive economic growth and business innovation.

The Science of Citizen Science

This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within ...

Handbook on Participatory Governance

This Handbook concentrates on democracy beyond the traditional governmental structures to explore the full scope of participatory governance.

Citizen Scientists

You can put your nose to a monarch pupa or listen for raucous frog calls. You can tally woodpeckers or sweep the grass for ladybugs. This book, full of engaging photos and useful tips, will show you how.

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Government Practices and Processes

Covering topics such as digital democracy, data extraction techniques, and political communications, this book is an essential resource for data analysts, politicians, journalists, public figures, executives, researchers, data specialists, ...

The Participatory Democracy Turn

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

New Forms of Political Party Membership

This Primer analyse these new forms of political party membership and presents how different parties and contexts have given birth to different ways of engaging citizens in the party’s life

The Activists' Handbook

The Activists' Handbook is a powerful guide to social change activism and an essential resource for anyone ready to make a difference.

The Incidental Steward

DIVA thoughtful citizen scientist contemplates our changing natural world and the value of stewardship/div

Digital Politics

This book discusses the implications of recent innovations in information and communication technology for civic and political engagement.

Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance

This text takes a fresh look at the foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the global system

Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in ...

Transforming Our Democracy

Participatory Budgeting (PB) exists at varying scales in more than 3,000 cities across the globe and the process continues to expand both in scale and in new technology, particularly as digital technologies are being integrated into a ...

Own This!

In this book, researcher and activist Trebor Scholz explores how these new forms of business, powered by peer principles, are paving the way for a more equitable economy that benefits everyone

Volunteer Engagement 2.0

In this book, you'll share that access as you explore the ideas, strategies, and insights that will boost volunteer engagement today and in the future.

How Social Movements Can Save Democracy

In this well-researched volume, leading political sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy, particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left ...

Collaborative Governance Primer

Providing much needed insights for theory, policy, and praxis, this volume will be of interest to academics and students of public affairs, public management, governance, public health, public policy, and disaster and emergency management,

The Promise of Community Citizen Science

The final section examines areas in which community citizen science may exhibit promise in terms of outcomes and impacts, discusses concerns that may hinder its overall potential, and assesses the roles different stakeholders may play to ...

Action Research for Democracy

This book addresses the potentials and challenges for Action Research supporting democratic alternatives

Electronic Democracy

This book analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies within representative democracy, and examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs.

Social Media in Politics

This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse

Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age

This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role of mapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and

The Activist Guide

This second edition examines new strategies, tactics, issues, and grassroots campaigns, and revisits whether activists have learned from past mistakes.

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