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Crowdsourcing: A new tool for policy-making?
Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving and applied in situations where ideas,
labour, opinion or expertise of large groups of people are used. Crowdsourcing
is now used in various policy-making initiatives; however, this use has usually
focused on open collaboration platforms and specific stages of the policy
process, such as agenda-setting and policy evaluations. Other forms of
crowdsourcing have been neglected in policy-making, with a few exceptions. This
article examines crowdsourcing as a tool for policy-making, and explores the
nuances of the technology and its use and implications for different stages of
the policy process. The article addresses questions surrounding the role of
crowdsourcing and whether it can be considered as a policy tool or as a
technological enabler and investigates the current trends and future directions
of crowdsourcing.
Keywords: Crowdsourcing, Public Policy, Policy Instrument, Policy Tool,
Policy Process, Policy Cycle, Open Collaboration, Virtual Labour Markets,
Tournaments, Competition
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