A Bottom-up E-Participation Process: Empowering Citizens to Innovate the Public Administration and its Sphere of Influence

Citizen participation procedures are increasingly used as a democratic instrument in political processes. While e-government development is slowly producing digitized solutions for implementation, there is potential for involving citizens in innovation processes in public administration. Currently, such operations are initiated reactively by the public sector in response to problems for which solutions are pursued. With a structured innovation process, the creativity of citizens can be used participatory to further develop the public administration and its services proactively, i.e., without a specific problem background. This paper describes current characteristics of e‑participation and open innovation based on related literature and discusses their use for a proactive, bottom-up public innovation process. Furthermore, Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) is used to illustrate a simple conceptual process for contributing and assessing ideas supported by an idea management system

A comparison of processing techniques for producing prototype injection moulding inserts.

This project involves the investigation of processing techniques for producing low-cost moulding inserts used in the particulate injection moulding (PIM) process. Prototype moulds were made from both additive and subtractive processes as well as a combination of the two. The general motivation for this was to reduce the entry cost of users when considering PIM. PIM cavity inserts were first made by conventional machining from a polymer block using the pocket NC desktop mill. PIM cavity inserts were also made by fused filament deposition modelling using the Tiertime UP plus 3D printer. The injection moulding trials manifested in surface finish and part removal defects. The feedstock was a titanium metal blend which is brittle in comparison to commodity polymers. That in combination with the mesoscale features, small cross-sections and complex geometries were considered the main problems. For both processing methods, fixes were identified and made to test the theory. These consisted of a blended approach that saw a combination of both the additive and subtractive processes being used. The parts produced from the three processing methods are investigated and their respective merits and issues are discussed

4th international conference on quality innovation and sustainability (ICQIS 2023): book of abstracts

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