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Mobile Governance: Empowering Citizens to Enhance Democratic Processes

Posted by MarkWeingarten on Feb 19, 2011
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Author: 
Poblet, Marta
Publication Date: 
Sep 2010
Publication Type: 
Report/White paper
Abstract: 

This paper offers an overview of the emerging domain of mobile governance as an offspring of the broader landscape of e-governance. Mobile governance initiatives have been deployed everywhere in parallel to the development of crowdsourced, open source software applications that facilitate the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of both information and data coming from different sources: citizens, organizations, public bodies, etc. Ultimately, mobile governance can be seen as a tool to promote the rule of law from a decentralized, distributed, and bottom-up perspective.