TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing successful participatory platforms with a public intent
T2 - Lessons learned from practitioners, scholars, and citizen participants
AU - Treisman, Chase
AU - Kelley, Tanya M.
AU - Johnston, Erik
N1 - Funding Information:
Organizations: Alliance for Innovation, Arizona Small Business Association, Ashoka Changemakers, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, Bob Ramsey Executive Education at ASU, Center for Policy Informatics, AASCU Grants Resource Center, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Metropolitan Institute, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, National Association of Schools of Public Administration & Affairs, National Academy of Sciences, New America Foundation, Purdue Foundation, Sterling Choice Health Lifestyle, USAID, and World Bank
Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by several sources. Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sources. We are grateful to these sources for enabling our research teams to host and study participatory platforms with a public intent. The National Science Foundation, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, RAPID Grant (1241782) supported hosting the Workshop on Participatory Platforms with a Public Intent and the research study presented in this paper. The Policy Challenge Finale was supported by The George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Indiana University-Bloomington’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, State University of New York-Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University of California-Berkeley’s Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. The partner institutions and individual participants of The Policy Challenge (see Table 1) as well as the presenters and discussants at the NSF Workshop on Participatory Platforms with a Public Intent (see Table 2) provided invaluable insights and contributions to these events and the research study presented in this paper. The National Science Foundation VOSS Grant (1143761) supported research focused on the participation behavior of the 10,000 Solutions participatory platform hosted by Arizona State University. The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance (made possible with the support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) supported experiments with new governing practices and the evolution of new norms for decision making at all levels of government.
Funding Information:
Government Agencies: National Science Foundation, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, White House Office of Digital Strategy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, U.S. General Services Administration, State of Arizona, and Alachua County (Florida)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by Pracademics Press.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Public organizations have interacted with citizens through increasingly sophisticated internet-enabled technology. Participatory platforms emerged from Web 2.0 technologies in the mid-2000s as a governance mechanism to engage citizens in the process of effecting social change. Although the potential of platforms is recognized, its successful implementation has faced challenges. To begin to get a handle on how to best design and manage participatory platforms, we conducted an exploratory participatory action research study grounded in two events - The Policy Challenge and NSF Workshop on Participatory Platforms with a Public Intent. Both events communed practitioners, scholars, and citizen participants with diverse experience and expertise conducting and researching platforms. The insights expressed through the events and follow-up interviews and online survey informed our development of a participatory platform lifecycle and design framework to assist designing successful participatory platforms.
AB - Public organizations have interacted with citizens through increasingly sophisticated internet-enabled technology. Participatory platforms emerged from Web 2.0 technologies in the mid-2000s as a governance mechanism to engage citizens in the process of effecting social change. Although the potential of platforms is recognized, its successful implementation has faced challenges. To begin to get a handle on how to best design and manage participatory platforms, we conducted an exploratory participatory action research study grounded in two events - The Policy Challenge and NSF Workshop on Participatory Platforms with a Public Intent. Both events communed practitioners, scholars, and citizen participants with diverse experience and expertise conducting and researching platforms. The insights expressed through the events and follow-up interviews and online survey informed our development of a participatory platform lifecycle and design framework to assist designing successful participatory platforms.
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U2 - 10.1108/ijotb-19-04-2016-b004
DO - 10.1108/ijotb-19-04-2016-b004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027716092
SN - 1093-4537
VL - 19
SP - 479
EP - 513
JO - International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
JF - International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
IS - 4
ER -