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Crowdsourcing and human development: the role of governments

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This paper explores in which way crowdsourcing and other new technologies can help governments in developing countries work more closely with stakeholders to improve public policy making and allocate public resources in a more responsive fashion vis-a-vis people's needs and priorities. The paper first sets a general background to frame the issues followed by a short literature review of the latest research in this area. It then proposes a new analytical framework which is used to study several cases studies from which it draws conclusions and suggests areas for further research.

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ICEGOV '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
October 2014
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ISBN:9781605586113
DOI:10.1145/2691195
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  1. ICT for development
  2. citizensourcing
  3. crowdsourcing
  4. democratic governance
  5. e-democracy
  6. e-governance
  7. e-government
  8. e-participation
  9. empowerment
  10. human development
  11. institutional development
  12. public policy
  13. public policy making
  14. state capacity

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