3: Citizen Involvement

Involve citizens in the formation and evaluation of data sets.

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With the availability of ever-growing data sets, citizens continue to emerge more than ever before as an empowered, informed body that is ready to act. In their daily lives, citizens consume, collect, and share data that is important to them. Therefore, government should involve the citizenry in forming and evaluating data sets. Whether as official contributors to key data sets with agreed upon service level agreements, or part of a point-in-time engaged audience, the ability of citizens to contribute to data set formation and evaluation can be enabled by engaging citizens as partners. One approach could be to develop mobile applications and portals that enable collection and evaluation of data in real-time centered around specific topics. To take the recommendation one step farther would be to integrate the model into the development of a secure, personalized window to government. By linking all contributions in the collection, the sharing and evaluation of data into a personalized account will embrace the culture of collaboration and partnership discussed as part of a citizen-centered government.

Stakeholder(s):

• Citizens

Objective(s):

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