Crowdsourcing urban sustainability.

Data, people and technologies in participatory governance.

(forth. Futures, 2015)

Chiara Certomà, Filippo Corsini, Francesco Rizzi

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

How the extensive use of

crowdsourcing tools can advance the

governance of

urban sustainability ?

1. We make a bibliometric analysis of the scientific

production in the field of crowdsourcing and

governance of urban sustainability;

1. We identify and classify the main theoretical

contributions;

1. We ‘join the dots’ in order to develop new

theoretical perspectives.

1. bibliometric analysis

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2. Dominant paths of research

• Interdisciplinary interest for environmental management in urban

areas

• crowdsourcing in environmental governance

• importance of participatory practices and the possibilities offered by

ICTs

significant contributions on:

a) definition of urban sustainability;

b) relation between participatory processes, enabled by social

web and interactive ICTs, and governance processes;

c) increase, definition and forthcoming development of

crowdsourcing tools and processes.

a) urban sustainability

Participation

Multidimensionality

Purposiveness

Equality

Transparency

Collaboration

Cooperation

Adaptability

b) participatory processes and ICT

enabling people to

collaborate with

professional

researchers

democracy

&

innovation

(Howe, 2006; Albors, Ramos, and Hervas, 2008; Brabham, 2008; Brabham, 2009) )

c) crowdsourcing

crowdsourcing processes

focus on people’s

technological agency

performed by using personal

ICTs for collective peer-

production to record,

measure, report on the

external environment; for

sharing opinion, ideas and

experiences, for elaborating

data and creating open-

innovation

problem solving, creative input generation,

opinion poll, outsourcing task, or raising

money for the sake of the proposing

organisation itself

3. Current trends and future integration between crowdsourcing

and the governance of urban sustainability

private organisations

(Smetts, 2011; Brabham, 2013; Seltzer, Mahmoudi, 2012; Shirky, 2008)

public sector

information gathering, large-scale data

analysis, ideation problems with empirically

provable solutions or where solutions are

matters of taste by fostering innovative

contributions in research-design or policy-

making

Toward crowdsourced urban sustainability

governance?

Openness

Transparency

Interoperability

Adaptability

Thank you

c.certoma@sssup.it