Using crowdsourcing to support civic engagement in strategic urban development planning: A case study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Haltofová, Barbora

dc.title	Using crowdsourcing to support civic engagement in strategic urban development planning: A case study of Ostrava, Czech Republic	en
dc.contributor.author	Haltofová, Barbora
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Competitiveness
dc.identifier.issn	1804-171X Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.identifier.issn	1804-1728 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2018
utb.relation.volume	10
utb.relation.issue	2
dc.citation.spage	85
dc.citation.epage	103
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně (UTB), Fakulta managementu a ekonomiky
dc.identifier.doi	10.7441/joc.2018.02.06
dc.relation.uri	http://www.cjournal.cz/index.php?hid=clanek&SET_LANG=cs&bid=aktualni&cid=287&cp=
dc.relation.uri	https://www.cjournal.cz/files/287.pdf
dc.subject	crowdsourcing	en
dc.subject	e-participation	en
dc.subject	strategic urban development planning	en
dc.subject	Ostrava	en
dc.subject	Czech Republic	en
dc.description.abstract	Recently, advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have provided opportunities for governments to deploy e-participation to actively engage citizens in public policy-making processes. As often noted, the development towards e-participation not only transforms the nature of government interactions with citizens but also affects the efficiency and effectiveness of public services and thus fosters competitiveness. Crowdsourcing is one mechanism of undertaking e-participation. It is a method for harnessing the collective intelligence of online communities to solve specific problems or produce goods, which has proved to be a successful supplemental public participation tool for city governance, as a way to engage citizens in the process of urban planning. This paper highlights how crowdsourcing can overcome the limitations in a traditional urban planning process. Using Ostrava, Czech Republic as a case study, this paper explores how city government engages citizens in creating the strategic urban development plan. The results show how crowdsourcing contributes to better civic engagement, improves citizens' perceptions of their city, and thus helps to find ways to encourage the competitiveness of the city of Ostrava, which is facing the problem of depopulation.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1008117
utb.identifier.obdid	43879492
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85068612925
utb.identifier.wok	000437712800006
utb.source	j-wok
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-03T12:49:41Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-03T12:49:41Z
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Haltofová, Barbora
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Barbora Haltofova Contact information Mgr. Ing. Barbora Haltofova Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics Mostní 5139, 76001 Zlín, Czech Republic E-mail: haltofova@fame.cz
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utb.wos.affiliation	[Haltofova, Barbora] Tomas Bata Univ Zlin, Fac Management & Econ, Mostni 5139, Zlin 76001, Czech Republic
utb.scopus.affiliation	Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Mostní 5139, Zlín, 76001, Czech Republic
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