Mapping international civic technologies platforms

Abstract

This research project intends to contribute theoretically and empirically to the research stream on co-creation by focusing on the ICT-enabled collective actions of citizens, communities, governmental organizations, business entities, NGOs and other stakeholders. Digital co-creation entails a number of preconditions and challenges due to diverse context, backgrounds of the actors involved and variety of methods used. The subjects of this research study are international Civic Technologies platforms and their communication strategies as presented in their websites. Hence, the objectives of the research were three-fold – to identify the objectives that platforms are striving to achieve (content), to define the main groups of involved stakeholders (actors), and to determine the co-creation methods (processes).