Forging Smarter Cities through CrowdLaw

Media and Communication

Beth Simone Noveck^1¹ 

[1] The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA^1

关键词: citizen engagement;    citizen participation;    CrowdLaw;    decision-making;    policymaking;    smart cities;   

DOI  :  10.17645/mac.v6i4.1665

学科分类：电子、光学、磁材料

来源: Cogitatio Press

【 摘 要 】

Public officials are often ill-equipped when it comes to knowing how to regulate complex societal challenges, especially those that involve cutting-edge scientific and technological advances that raise myriad ethical, moral, political, legal, regulatory and social questions. But what if technology could be used to improve the quality of regulation and legislation? Online, tech-enabled participation methods, known as “CrowdLaw”, enable more individuals, not only interest groups, to inform the legislative and policymaking processes. In this brief commentary, I survey a handful of global examples which show CrowdLaw in use at each stage of the lawmaking process at the local level and exhibit how participation is improving outcomes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY