3: Citizen Participation
Mobilise the energies of users (citizens) by allowing them to quickly and intuitively pool their resources and direct them
at a particular challenge.
Other Information:
Social computing networks very effectively mobilise the energies of users (citizens) by allowing them to quickly and intuitively
pool their resources and direct them at a particular challenge, all via the social connection. Even the smallest groups ('niches')
of scattered users succeed in reaching critical mass and thereby become more visible. By employing social computing strategies
(and ‘tools’), government can enlist important niche audiences and leverage their insights. Overall this would contribute
to a higher resolution of ‘ground truth’ to underwrite policymaking. In order to employ these strategies and tools, civil
servants would need to become very familiar with them and the values of social computing communities.
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