Case Studies

The Smart City and its Citizens: Governance and Citizen Participation in Amsterdam Smart City

Carlo Francesco Capra

Region Amsterdam

Government Data Does Not Mean Data Governance: Lessons Learned from a Public Sector Application Audit

Nik Thompson, Ravi Ravindran, Salvatore Nicosia

Region Australia

The Individiualisation of Party Politics: The Impact of Changing Internal Decision-Making Processes on Policy Development and Citizen Engagement

Anika Gauja

Region Australia Europe

Sector Politics

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Does transparency matter? Evaluating the governance impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Azerbaijan and Liberia

Benjamin K. Sovacoola, Nathan Andrews

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Legitimacy

Sector Energy

Smart cities: moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems

Robert Goodspeed

Objective Effectiveness

Region Brazil

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Confronting the Hype: The Use of Crisis Mapping for Community Development

Ana Brandusescu, Renée E. Sieber, Sylvie Jochems

Objective Effectiveness

Region Canada

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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland

Silvia Suteu

Sector Law

Another Tale of Two Cities: Understanding Human Activity Space Using Actively Tracked Cellphone Location Data

Yang Xu, Shih-Lung Shaw, Ziliang Zhao, Ling Yin, Feng Lu, Jie Chen, Zhixiang Fang, Quingquan Li

Objective Effectiveness

Region China

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Online Participation in Higher Education Decision-making

Samuel Bohman, Henrik Hansson, Pooyeh Mobini

Methodology Case Studies Survey

Region Europe

Sector Education

Breaking Public Administrations’ Data Silos

Raimondo Iemma, Federico Morando, Michele Osella

Category Open Data

Region Europe

Five design principles for crowdsourced policymaking: Assessing the case of crowdsourced off-road traffic law in Finland

Tanja Aitamurto, Hélène Landemore

Region Finland

Sector Law

Habermas and the Garants : Narrowing the gap between policy and practice in French organisation – citizen engagement

Judy Burnside-Lawry, Carolyne Lee, Sandrine Rui

Methodology Case Studies

Region France

Datafication and empowerment: How the open data movement re-articulates notions of democracy, participation, and journalism

Stefan Baack

Methodology Case Studies Survey

Region Germany

One way traffic: The open data initiative project and the need for an effective demand side initiative in Ghana

Frank L.K. Ohemeng, Kwaku Ofosu-Adarkwa

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies

Region Ghana

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Managerial Governance and Transparency in Public Sector to Improve Services for Citizens and Companies

Nunzio Casalino, Peter Bednar

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies

Region Italy

Why women participate less in civic activity: Evidence from Mali

Jessica Gottlieb

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Participation

Region Mali

Crowd Sourced Legislation and Politics: The Legitimacy of Constitutional Deliberation in Romania

Sergiu Gherghina, Sergiu Miscoiu

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Legitimacy

Region Romania

Sector Law

Beating the news' with EMBERS: Forecasting Civil Unrest using Open Source Indicators

Naren Ramakrishnan, Patrick Butler, Sathappan Muthiah, Nathan Self, Rupinder Khandpur, Parang Saraf, Wei Wang, Jose Cadena, Anil Vullikanti, Gizem Korkmaz, Chris Kuhlman, Achla Marathe, Liang Zhao, Ting Hua, Feng Chen, Chang-Tien Lu, Bert Huang, Aravind Srinivasan, Khoa Trinh, Lise Getoor, Graham Katzy Doyle, Chris Ackermann, Ilya Zavorin, Jim Ford, Kristen Summers, Youssef Fayed, Jaime Arredondo, Dipak Gupta, David Mares

Category Data Analysis
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Region South America

Sector Public Safety

Smart cities from scratch? a socio-technical perspective

Luís Carvalho

Category Data Analysis
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness
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Beyond the participatory process: Consequences in the interaction between civil society and local authorities

Manuel Jiménez Sánchez, Patricia García Espín, José Luis Fernández Martínez

Objective Participation

Region Spain

Internet Voting for Expatriates: The Swiss Case

Micha Germann, Uwe Serdült

Category Civic Technology
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Participation

Region Switzerland

Citizens' Use of New Media in Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of Uganda

Åke Grönlund, Wairagala Wakabi

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Participation

Region Uganda

Crowdsourcing and regulatory reviews: A new way of challenging red tape in British government?

Martin Lodge, Kai Wegrich

Methodology Case Studies

Police.uk and Data.police.uk: Developing Open Crime and Justice Data for the UK

Amanda M Smith, Tom Heath

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Legitimacy

Sector Public Safety

Public Participation Organizations and Open Policy: A Constitutional Moment for British Democracy?

Helen Pallett

Sector Science

Removing barriers for citizen participation to urban innovation

Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Umar Mir, Jose Cavero, Gerd Kortuem

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies

Opening access to administrative data for evaluating public servics: The case of the Justice Data Lab

Fergus Lyon, Tracey Gyateng, David Prtichard, Prabhat Vaze, Ian Vickers, Nicola Webb

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Outside Innovation

Crowdsourcing medical expertise in near real time

Max H. Sims, Jeffrey Bigham, Henry Kautz, Marc W. Halterman

Methodology Case Studies

Region United States

Sector Health

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Digilantism: An Analysis of Crowdsourcing and the Boston Marathon Bombings

Johnny Nhan, Laura Huey, Ryan Broll

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Region United States

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Competition-Based Innovation: The Case of the X Prize Foundation

Mokter Hossain, Ilkka Kauranen

Methodology Case Studies

Region United States

Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions

Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim Lakhani

Region United States

Outcome-driven open innovation at NASA

Jennifer L. Gustetic, Jason Crusan, Steve Rader, Sam Ortega

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Region United States

Sector Science

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Crowdsourcing Solutions for Disaster Response: Examples and Lessons for the US Government

David Becker, Samuel Bendett

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Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Region United States

The Behavioral Divide: A Critique of the Differential Implementation of Behavioral Law and Economics in the US and the EU

Philipp Hacker

Objective Effectiveness

Sector Law

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Innovating and changing the policy-cycle: Policy-makers be prepared!

Marijn Janssen, Natalie Helbig

Methodology Case Studies
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The multiple meanings of open government data: Understanding different stakeholders and their perspectives

Felipe Gonzalez-Zapata, Richard Heeks

Category Open Data
Methodology Survey Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness
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How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?

Chris Ansell, Jacob Torfing

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness
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Addressing Global Data Sharing Challenges

George C. Alter, Mary Vardigan

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Participation

Collective Intelligence Meets Medical Decision-Making: The Collective Outperforms the Radiologist

Max Wolf, Jens Krause, Patricia A. Carneyy Bogart, Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers

Objective Effectiveness

Sector Health

Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

Edward Glaeserrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca

Objective Effectiveness

Crowdsourcing Diagnosis for Patients With Undiagnosed Illnesses: An Evaluation of CrowdMed

Ashley N.D. Meyer, Christopher A. Longhurst, Hardeep Singh

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Sector Health

Hacking the streets: 'Smart' writing in the smart city

Spencer Jordan

Push, Pull, and Spill: A Transdisciplinary Case Study in Municipal Open Government

Jan Whittington, Ryan Calo, Mike Simon, Jesse Woo, Meg Young, Peter Schmiedeskamp

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Tracking Employment Shocks Using Mobile Phone Data

Jameson L. Toole, Yu-Ru Lin, Erich Muehlegger, Daniel Shoag, Marta C. Gonzalez, David Lazer

Category Data Analysis
Objective Effectiveness

Sector Economy

Gatekeepers: How Procurement Personnel Guard Against Hybrid Accountability

Daniel E. Bromberg

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Legitimacy
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Participatory Environmental Valuation: A Comparative Analysis of Four Case Studies

Leslie Carnoye, Rita Lopes

Methodology Case Studies

Sector Environment

Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review

Marko M. Skoric, Qinfeng Zhu, Debbie Goh, Natalie Pang

Objective Participation
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New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

Francesco Mancini, Marie O'Reilly

Objective Effectiveness

Sector Human Rights

Making design safe for citizens: A hidden history of humanitarian experimentation

Katja Lindskov Jacobsen

Objective Legitimacy

Sector Human Rights

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Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier

Michael F. Goodchilda, J. Alan Glennona

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Region United States

Crowdsourced Deliberation: The Case of the Law on Off-Road Traffic in Finland

Tanja Aitamurto, Hélène Landemore

Objective Participation

Region Finland

Sector Law

Beyond the Digital Divide: Towards a Situated Approach to Open Data

L. Bezuidenhout, B. Rappert, A. Kelly, S. Leonelli

Category Open Data
Objective Access Participation

Region Africa

Sector Development

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Crowdsourcing Global Governance: Sustainable Development Goals, Civil Society, and the Pursuit of Democratic Legitimacy

Joshua C. Gellers

Objective Effectiveness

Tools MY World

Global Governance and ICTs: Exploring Online Governance Networks around Gender and Media

Claudia Padovani, Elena Pavan

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Legitimacy
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Design Principles for Engaging and Retaining Virtual Citizen Scientists

Dara M. Wald, Justin Longo, A. R. Dobell

Methodology Case Studies Surveys

Sector Environment

"I wld like u WMP to extend electricity 2 our village": On Information Technology and Interest Articulation

Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Gabriella Sacramone-Lutz

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Participation

Region Uganda

Big Data: Big Power Shifts?

Lena Ulbricht, Maximilian von Grafenstein

Objective Effectiveness

The Small World Initiative: An Innovative Crowdsourcing Platform for Antibiotics

Ana Maria Barral, Huda Makhluf, Nichole A. Broderick, Erika L. Kurt

Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Sector Health

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Revealing Clutural Ecosystem Services through Instagram Images: The Potential of Social Media Volunteered Geographic Information for Green...

Paulina Guerrero, Maja Steen Møller, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Bernhard Snizek

Methodology Case Studies

Sector Environment

The Perils of Experimentation

Michael A. Livermore

Objective Effectiveness

Crowdsourcing Biomedial Research: Leveraging Communities as Innovation Engines

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, James C. Costello, Stephen H. Friend, Michael R. Kellen, Lara Mangravite, Pablo Meyer, Thea Norman, Gustavo Stolovitsky

Objective Effectiveness

Sector Health

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The Politics of Mapping Platforms: Participatory Radiation Mapping after the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster

Jean-Christophe Plantin

Region Japan

Crowdsourcing civility: A natural experiment examining the effects of distributed moderation in online forums

Cliff Lampe, Paul Zube, Jusil Lee, Chul Hyun Park, Erik Johnston

Objective Participation

GitHub use in public administration in Canada: Early experience with a new open collaboration tool

Justin Longo, Tanya M. Kelley

Region Canada

Tools GitHub

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Emerging Implications of Open and Linked Data for Knowledge Sharing Development

Tim Davies, Duncan Edwards

Category Open Data
Methodology Case Studies
Objective Effectiveness

Sector Development