Crowdsourcing the Policy Cycle

• Main Authors: Prpić, John, TAEIHAGH, Araz, Melton, James
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Crowdsourcing; Policy Cycle; Virtual Labor Markets; Tournament-Based Collaboration; Open Collaboration; Policy Design; Policy Evaluation; Policy Implementation; Policy Enforcement; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1864; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3121/viewcontent/Araz_2014_CrowdsourcingPolicyCycle.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Crowdsourcing is beginning to be used for policymaking. The “wisdom of crowds” [Surowiecki 2005], and crowdsourcing [Brabham 2008], are seen as new avenues that can shape all kinds of policy, from transportation policy [Nash 2009] to urban planning [Seltzer and Mahmoudi 2013], to climate policy. In general, many have high expectations for positive outcomes with crowdsourcing, and based on both anecdotal and empirical evidence, some of these expectations seem justified [Majchrzak and Malhotra 2013]. Yet, to our knowledge, research has yet to emerge that unpacks the different forms of crowdsourcing in light of each stage of the well-established policy cycle. This work addresses this research gap, and in doing so brings increased nuance to the application of crowdsourcing techniques for policymaking.