Examination of crowdsourcing as a tool for policy making

• Main Author: TAEIHAGH, Araz
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Crowdsourcing; Public Policy; Policy Process; Policy cycle; Policy Instrument; Policy Tool; Open Collaboration; Virtual Labour Markets; Tournaments; Competition; Infrastructure; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2376; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3633/viewcontent/59532180cf51e.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 been focused on open collaboration platforms and specific stages of...