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Scientists@Home: what drives the quantity and quality of online citizen science participation? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Online citizen science offers a low-cost way to strengthen the infrastructure for scientific research and engage members of the public in science. As the sustainability of online citizen science projects depends on volunteers who contribute their skills,
Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, David Anderson
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Optimizing the Role of ICT and Citizen Participation: Analysis of Smart City Governance Implementation in Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The implementation of Smart City Governance (SCG) in Southeast Asia has gained attention as a way to improve urban life by integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and citizen participation. This study examines the implementation of SCG
Mutiarin Dyah, Lawelai Herman
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Citizen participation

This report looks at enhancing citizen participation in the context of municipal projects within the region of Groningen. Research conducted on citizen participation has found that it can be challenging to put into practice, as it is multifaceted and needs to be done carefully.
Mirco Saner, Maike Körner
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Participation? Sense of Community and Social Representations of Participation

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2019
The relationship between sense of community (SOC) and citizen participation has been extensively studied in community psychology. Connecting Social Representations and SOC theory, this study explored the lay meanings of citizen participation and its ...
Alessia Rochira, Evelyn De Simone, Terri Mannarini, Sergio Salvatore   +3 more
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Motivations and Barriers to Participation in Citizen Science: The Case Study of the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2023
Citizen science projects are designed to encourage involvement of the public with science. Understanding demographics of participants and factors that motivate or create barriers to participation are central in ensuring citizen science is effective ...
John Terenzini, Smriti Safaya, Laura J Falkenberg   +2 more
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A proposed citizen participation–public trust model in the context of service delivery protests in South African local government

Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, 2021
The South African local government context has been marred by persistent citizen protests that continue to jeopardise public administrators’ quest for effective service rendering.
Pumlani Msenge, Ogochukwu I. Nzewi
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Actual practices of citizen participation in smart cities

Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal
This article attempts to explore the actual citizen participation practices. Scholarly articles on smart cities have investigated different aspects of the smart city paradigm.
Deepak KUMAR
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The role of multiple sense of community as a mediator in the relationship between urban identity and citizen participation

Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat: Indonesian Journal of Indigenous Psychology
In the urban context, place identity has been found to have an important role in increasing citizen participation. Although some studies have shown a positive relationship, some other studies have shown weak and contradictory relationship between ...
Kamalia, Dicky C. Pelupessy
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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new Myxococcota genomes and revise taxonomy quadrupling the number of families and genera.
Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Ronald Garcia, Guangyi Chen, Chantal D. Bader, Peter Sullivan, Alexander Popoff, Daniel Krug, Maja Hunter, Sebastian Walesch, Emilia Oueis, Christine Frank, Haowen Zhao, Joachim J. Hug, Sebastian Keller, Pascal Hirsch, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Tatiana Malygina, Mary Victory E. Gutierrez, Alexey Gurevich, Judith Boldt, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann, Ulrich Nübel, Andreas Keller, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller   +25 more
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Growing Pains of Crowdsourced Stream Stage Monitoring Using Mobile Phones: The Development of CrowdHydrology

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019
Citizen science-based approaches to monitor the natural environment tend to be bimodal in maturity. Older and established programs such as the Audubon’s Christmas bird count and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) have ...
Christopher S. Lowry, Michael N. Fienen, Damon M. Hall, Kristine F. Stepenuck   +3 more
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