The last few weeks we have been travelling around Denmark conducting interviews for our master’s...

In all of the cases there was a tremendous anxiety towards online citizen behaviour and what...

One thing we learned from interviewing, was that, engaging and co-creating with citizens on...

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The increasingly complex society is challenging the traditional way we solve problems in the...

The Danish welfare state faces two big challenges, wicked problems and fiscal constraint. The...

Climate change, traffic and lifestyle diseases are the classic examples. But gradually a lot of...

These kinds of problems are normally characterized as “wicked” because there are no easy fix...

Solving such complex problems requires the involvement of networks of multiple stakeholders and...

• Citizens posses the required production tools (computers and internet connection) and production...


• You can include and aggregate an infinite amount of citizens in the co-creation process, without...


• It is faster and cheaper to co-produce knowledge, information, and service,


• Citizens are not reliant of time and place,


• In creating citizen communities, citizens achieve co-ownership and closer connectedness which...

So why are the public sector not using the new internet tools to address the problems in new...

Rasmus & Inge-Mai

It’s been a few months since we started working on our master’s thesis research project here at...

As you may know from our previous blog post, we are interested in finding out whether digital...

In our research we have come across some great and successful international public sector...

Thus, our study aims at finding out why we haven’t seen the perfect and powerful Danish example...

Therefore, we are looking forward to share our results during the coming months and thoughts on...

Best,

Rasmus and Inge-Mai

Citizensourcing (term coined by Lukensmeyer & Torres, 2008) describes the design and...

Needless to say, we all strive to innovate the public sector, and as a result, one logically...

• Resistant culture: Public official skepticism about the capacity of citizens to come to sound...


• Pre-dominance of e-services: Bringing frontline services online while closing a window on...


• Top-down government: The risk of incremental tinkering instead of thorough broad management...


• Representation: Citizen-sourcing through mass participation offers challenges to fundamental...


• Producing reliable results: The preferences expressed by citizens who participate in a public...


• Connecting input to outcome: For citizensourcing to work long-term, agencies must adopt clear...


• Surrendering agendas: In addressing a public challenge, significant control might already be...

Our research project wishes to explore citizensourcing between public sector innovation and...

Stay tuned for updates and please contribute with any thoughts and ideas.

Rasmus & Inge-Mai