Aitamurto, Tanja

Crowdsourcing in policymaking - 2020.


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Governments are increasingly deploying crowdsourcing in policymaking to acquire knowledge to support policies and engage the public. This article discusses crowdsourcing as a method of large-scale online collaboration, situating it as a democratic innovation in policymaking. The features, benefits, and challenges of crowdsourced policymaking are reviewed using practical cases as examples.