Abstract
The article describes the potential of the new interactive crowdsourcing technologies in the public policy. Theconceptual basis of the research implies the network theory of policy, the theory of deliberate democracy and theconcept “governance”. The empirical study was based on the methodology of double reflexivity and conductedusing such tools as case study, focus-group interview and monitoring of the online platforms of Russian andforeign crowdsourcing resources. The authors emphasize and characterize the main technologies of politicalcrowdsourcing: prediction market crowdsourcing, network brainstorming, project crowdsourcing, andcrowdfunding. The authors think that the socio-political role of crowdsourcing lies in the extension of space inwhich the authorities and citizens interact, the initiation and introduction of political innovations, and thedevelopment of the new forms of civil and political participation.
Highlights
Crowdsourcing is an innovative and interactive mechanism of the interaction between authorities and citizens which technologies and resources have developed in the public policy of the modern states
Crowdsourcing as a kind of socio-political activity has been widely distributed in the modern public policy
The government authorities are oriented in a greater degree on the creation of information online-platforms, combining the technologies of crowdsourcing and project crowdsourcing
Summary
Crowdsourcing is an innovative and interactive mechanism of the interaction between authorities and citizens which technologies and resources have developed in the public policy of the modern states. The term “crowdsourcing” was introduced by the writer Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, the editor of the journal Wired to describe the business model that is based on the attraction of consumers, Internet users and volunteers for the production and distribution of products and services, and generation of ideas and solutions (Howe, 2012). In terms of interdisciplinarity, crowdsourcing is defined as a complex of solutions, generated by the attraction of intellectual, informational and organizational efforts of the open network community (Geerts, 2009). Rephrasing E. von Hippel, it can be said that this trend was created expecting that citizens will want to share their ideas with the authorities for free or a reasonable payment only to see their ideas are implemented in the public policy
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