Crowdsourcing-Enabled Crisis Collaborative Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Mohammed Benali ◽  
Abdessamed Réda Ghomari ◽  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari ◽  
Mohammed Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
Coordination Work

Crisis events put crisis response organizations in a unique and complex situation that requires critical real-time distributed decision-making so that lives and properties are saved and protected. With the growing development of collaborative technologies, citizen participation to the crisis management process has shifted from the passive one-way contribution of social networking data to a more active participation by performing specific tasks related to crisis data processing. This article presents a comprehensive approach for integrating the crowdsourcing process to the collaborative decisional process in crisis situations. Within the approach three aspects are highlighted: the coordination work that exists between the relevant stakeholders in making collective decisions, the modeling of case dependent activities within the decisional process, and the detailed modeling of decision-related tasks. The authors investigate the applicability of the proposal with a real-world case study of the Desert Locust Plague carried out in the Algerian National Institute of Plant Protection.

scholarly journals Participatory Democracy in Local Government

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-268
Author(s):  
Ángel H. Iglesias Alonso ◽  
Roberto L. Barbeito Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
City Government ◽  
Administrative Participation

In 2015, the local government of the city of Madrid (Spain) introduced an electronic participation system. This initiative stemmed mainly from the social movements that had occupied the squares of many Spanish cities since 2011. As a result of the local elections in 2015, many of those same activists gained institutional power, took citizens’ participation very seriously, and decided to use the possibilities offered by the internet for political and administrative participation. In this article, we seek to assess the impacts of the Madrid city government with the e-democracy experiment – based mainly on establishing an online platform to facilitate citizen participation in political and administrative decision processes. Drawing on qualitative and documental data, our research indicates that whereas the overall aim of the project was to give citizens a say in local policy and decision making, our case study shows that participation was very low since most of the population does not feel concerned by these processes. Indeed, one of our findings showed that citizens’ involvement offline surpassed in some cases their online participation. To identify who is politically active online and offline is a great challenge, to which the promoters of the project did not pay much attention. Although e-participation was meagre in relation to the electoral turnout, the case study also shows that many proposals from the public were incorporated into the local policies, indicating that from a qualitative point of view, e-participation influences decision-making processes. Perhaps local governments should use a more strategic and integrated approach towards the use of electronic technologies to foster and motivate citizens’ involvement in local politics and administration. This more integrated approach should be less dependent on ideological incentives, more institutionalized, and must incorporate citizens’ perceptions and inputs before the introduction of new technologies.

scholarly journals Developing Knowledge-Based Citizen Participation Platform to Support Smart City Decision Making: The Smarticipate Case Study

Information ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaheer Khan ◽  
Jens Dambruch ◽  
Jan Peters-Anders ◽  
Andreas Sackl ◽  
Anton Strasser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Developing Knowledge

Net-Centric Operational Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Supriya Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Joint Forces ◽  
Communities Of Interest

In this chapter we delve deeper into the concepts of net-centric systems and provide characteristics of the upcoming net-centric operational environment. We define traits that are properly defines this type of real-time operational environment and its benefits. The problem of today’s military is described and a shift to a new operational environment is mentioned to surmount current challenges. The chapter then illustrates the net-centric operational context and denotes each of the elements. We describe the fundamentals of knowledge management, knowledge sharing and distributed decision making. We address issues such as collaboration within communities of interest, technical connectivity and network management principles. We define different knowledge domains and sharing of knowledge across the net-centric environment. We then provide a case study of an example, future net-centric environment that has been presented within a DoD joint forces document.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Innovation Labs in Collaborative Governance—The Case of the Gipuzkoa Lab in the Basque Country, Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Unceta ◽  
Xabier Barandiaran ◽  
Natalia Restrepo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Public Sector Innovation

Public sector innovation labs have gained increasing importance as one of the material expressions of public sector innovation and collaborative governance to address complex societal problems. In the current international context, there are various experiences, interpretations, and applications of this concept with similarities and differences but all of them are based fundamentally on the establishment of new forms of participation and collaboration between governments and civil society. This paper aims to examine, through a case study, how policy innovation labs could play a prominent role in promoting decision-making at the local level in order to create a more sustainable public sector. To do this, this article focuses on an analysis of the “Gipuzkoa Lab”, a public innovation lab developed in the Gipuzkoa region located in the Basque Country, Spain, in order to confront future socio-economic challenges via an open participatory approach. An analysis of a pilot project to address worker participation, developed within this participatory process, indicates that these collaborative spaces have important implications for the formulation of public policies and can change public actions, yielding benefits and engaging citizens, workers, private companies and academics. This paper provides a contemporary approach to understanding good practice in collaborative governance and a novel process for facilitating the balance between the state and civil society, and between public functions and the private sphere, for decision-making. In particular, this case study may be of interest to international practitioners and researchers to introduce the increasingly popular concept of public sector innovation labs into debates of citizen participation and decision-making.

A Novel Approach to Modelling the Prescribing Decision, Integrating Physician and Patient Influences

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Mellor ◽  
Stuart Green
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Distributed Decision Making ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Distributed Decision

This paper describes a case study designed to demonstrate the feasibility of building a linked decision model based on the implications of distributed decision-making in healthcare, and thus to provide the ability to make quantified predictions of product offer performance. The approach taken was to adapt an existing conjoint-based forecasting tool (CAPMOD(tm)), (Brice et al. 2000). Our results show that there is a subset of product attributes on which physicians and patients perceive substantive differences in terms of their relative importance in their views of therapy alternatives. We also demonstrate that the observed differences in predicted share uptake between the separate, non-integrated physician and patient models and the integrated model do not necessarily follow from the observed differences in average relative importance between the two customer types, as would be the case for many existing simulation models. This additional insight into the decision-making process was possible through the use of a decision model which includes the key element of individual physician-patient linkage with an associated cut-off threshold. The paper describes the details of the approach and shows example outputs from the model. It will explore a number of interesting practical and theoretical issues that were encountered in the course of conducting this research.

Blockchain in Supply Chain: Case Study of Lottemart Ciputat

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Handoyo ◽  
M. R. Mashudi ◽  
H. P. Ipung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Production Processes

Current supply chain methods are having difficulties in resolving problems arising from the lack of trust in supply chains. The root reason lies in two challenges brought to the traditional mechanism: self-interests of supply chain members and information asymmetry in production processes. Blockchain is a promising technology to address these problems. The key objective of this paper is to present qualitative analysis for blockchain in supply chain as the decision-making framework to implement this new technology. The analysis method used Val IT business case framework, validated by the expert judgements. The further study needs to be elaborated by either the existing organization that use blockchain or assessment by the organization that will use blockchain to improve their supply chain management.

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