Citizen Sensors or Extreme Publics? Transparency and Accountability Interventions on the Mobile Geoweb

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dc.contributor.authorGeorgiadoua, Y.
dc.contributor.authorLungo, Juma H.
dc.contributor.authorRichter, C.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T08:10:57Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T08:10:57Z
dc.date.issued2013-05-08
dc.descriptionFull text can be accessed at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538947.2013.782073en_US
dc.description.abstractTransparency and Accountability (T&A) interventions are emergent social technologies in middle and low-income countries. They bring together citizen sensors, mobile communications, geo-browsers and social organization to raise public awareness on the extent of governance deficits, and monitor government's (in)action. Due to their novelty, almost all we know about the effectiveness of T&A interventions comes from gray literature. Can citizen sensors radically increase the transparency of the state, or are changes brought about by T&A interventions more likely to be incremental? We review the literature on transparency policies and describe their drivers, characteristics and supply–demand dynamics. We discuss promising cases of T&A interventions in East Africa, the empirical focus of an on-going collaborative research program. We conclude that the effect of T&A interventions is more likely to be incremental and mediated by existing organizations and professional users who populate the space between the state and citizens. Two elements at the interface between supply and demand seem rather crucial for designers of T&A interventions: accountability-relevant data and extreme publics.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGeorgiadou, Y., Lungo, J.H. and Richter, C., 2013. Citizen sensors or extreme publics? Transparency and accountability interventions on the mobile geoweb. International Journal of Digital Earth, 7(7), pp.516-533.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17538947.2013.782073
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1379
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectcitizen sensorsen_US
dc.subjecttransparencyen_US
dc.subjectaccountability-relevant dataen_US
dc.subjectextreme publicsen_US
dc.subjectmobile geoweben_US
dc.titleCitizen Sensors or Extreme Publics? Transparency and Accountability Interventions on the Mobile Geoweben_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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