Citizen Engagement

Interaction between citizens and governments to canvass and influence collective public opinion on civic policy-making and budget spending

NASA Turns to the Crowds For New Website Ideas

NASA.gov is looking for change and is turning to its users for input. NASA has opened up a forum on the platform Ideascale. An innovation platform, for collaboration, Ideascale can help bring out the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders by giving them a...

A Framework for Political Crowdfunding

The recent presidential election in the United States was the most expensive race in history, with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spending about $1 billion respectively on their efforts to win the White House. While both candidates raised hundreds of millions of...

How the Use of Crowdsourcing is Empowering the African Citizen

911 Data Collection 240 million phone calls are made to 911 in the U.S., every year. The number in Europe is probably higher. The number in most African countries is impossible to ascertain. 911 and its variants across the globe are an old example of crowdsourcing...

USAID Is Using Crowdsourcing To Map Its Impact

The USAID embraces crowdsourcing? The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by John F. Kennedy in 1961. Its primary responsibility is distributing civilian foreign aid. Part of the USAID mission statement is: “Economic growth is key to...

Will the United Nations Support Crowdsourcing Sustainability

Crowdsourcing sustainability -- is that even possible? Well that is what Jacob Scherr -- Director of Global Strategy & Advocacy Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) -- is hoping for. The UN is holding a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this June, it’s...