Using crowdsourcing to support civic engagement in strategic urban development planning: A case study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7441/joc.2018.02.06" target="_blank" >10.7441/joc.2018.02.06</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Using crowdsourcing to support civic engagement in strategic urban development planning: A case study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Original language description

Recently, advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have provided opportunities for governments to deploy e-participation to actively engage citizens in public policy-making processes. As often noted, the development towards e-participation not only transforms the nature of government interactions with citizens but also affects the efficiency and effectiveness of public services and thus fosters competitiveness. Crowdsourcing is one mechanism of undertaking e-participation. It is a method for harnessing the collective intelligence of online communities to solve specific problems or produce goods, which has proved to be a successful supplemental public participation tool for city governance, as a way to engage citizens in the process of urban planning. This paper highlights how crowdsourcing can overcome the limitations in a traditional urban planning process. Using Ostrava, Czech Republic as a case study, this paper explores how city government engages citizens in creating the strategic urban development plan. The results show how crowdsourcing contributes to better civic engagement, improves citizens’ perceptions of their city, and thus helps to find ways to encourage the competitiveness of the city of Ostrava, which is facing the problem of depopulation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Competitiveness

ISSN

1804-171X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

85-103

UT code for WoS article

000437712800006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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