Description
The first attempts of government agencies to apply crowdsourcing ideas aimed at the collection of policy-related information, knowledge and ideas from the general public (‘citizen-sourcing’) concerning various social problems and needs, in order to support the development of effective public policies for addressing them. However, it was soon realized that, due to the high complexity of modern social problems and needs, it would be quite beneficial if this could be complemented by the collection of relevant information, knowledge and ideas from experts as well; this leads to the gradual emergence of ‘expert-sourcing’, as an important foundation of public policy making. Such practices constitute important innovations in the policy development processes, so it is necessary to analyze them from this perspective; the most fundamental question to be investigated is to what extent these innovative expert-sourcing practices have the fundamental preconditions for a wide diffusion and adoption in government. Our paper makes a contribution in this direction by evaluating an ICT-based passive expert-sourcing method for supporting policy making from this perspective, using as theoretical foundation the Diffusion of Innovation Theory.
Recommended Citation
Charalabidis, Yannis; Loukis, Euripidis N.; and Androutsopoulou, Aggeliki, "Evaluating a Passive Expert-Sourcing Method for Policy Making From Innovation Diffusion Theory Perspective" (2017). AMCIS 2017 Proceedings. 8.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/eGovernment/Presentations/8
Evaluating a Passive Expert-Sourcing Method for Policy Making From Innovation Diffusion Theory Perspective
The first attempts of government agencies to apply crowdsourcing ideas aimed at the collection of policy-related information, knowledge and ideas from the general public (‘citizen-sourcing’) concerning various social problems and needs, in order to support the development of effective public policies for addressing them. However, it was soon realized that, due to the high complexity of modern social problems and needs, it would be quite beneficial if this could be complemented by the collection of relevant information, knowledge and ideas from experts as well; this leads to the gradual emergence of ‘expert-sourcing’, as an important foundation of public policy making. Such practices constitute important innovations in the policy development processes, so it is necessary to analyze them from this perspective; the most fundamental question to be investigated is to what extent these innovative expert-sourcing practices have the fundamental preconditions for a wide diffusion and adoption in government. Our paper makes a contribution in this direction by evaluating an ICT-based passive expert-sourcing method for supporting policy making from this perspective, using as theoretical foundation the Diffusion of Innovation Theory.