Abstract
Participation as such is connected with political, social and civic dimensions. Through participation, citizens can directly or indirectly help to make the public process become more transparent and more efficient. It allows citizens “to see" into a decision-making process, to understand it, as well as contribute and be able to control it. In practice, civic participation has various forms; it includes both formal civic associations and informal groups of citizens that develop activities in order to solve local problems. In this paper we focus on civic participation in the innovation in the provision of public services, i.e. co-creation. Our objective is to map the best practices of co-creation in social innovations at the local government level in Slovakia. The main findings of our analysis are that co-created innovations are mostly initiated by non-governmental actors. Our study uses a qualitative approach and is based on original survey data from our own research, conducted mainly within the LIPSE research project.
Highlights
According to the Revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life (2003), the active involvement of people in public life improves their identification with their hometown
Civic participation may take the form of various cultural events, improving the environment and club activities supported by the Innovation in Public Service: Civic Participation in Slovakia 265 government etc
The first condition that must be met is the identification of joint interest of citizens and local government
Summary
According to the Revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life (2003), the active involvement of people in public life improves their identification with their hometown. For this paper an objective of the plurality system of ownership forms in public service delivering is important This means approaches like ‘public governance,’ ‘public-private-civil sector mix, partnerships, competition and cooperation,’ and ‘co-creation’ (Cullis & Jones 2009; Osborne & Gaebler 1993; Nemec, Mikušová Meričková & Svidroňová 2015). Co-creation is considered to be a social innovation in the production of public services It opens the delivery process and involves the end users (citizens) in the design and development of goods and services (Chesbrough 2003; Silva & Buček 2014; Von Hippel 2007). Interviews with various experts on co-creation processes during public innovation This is used to develop and verify the inventory of best practices
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