Citizen Participation, Open Innovation, and Crowdsourcing

Ethan Seltzer, Dillon Mahmoudi · 2012 · Journal of Planning Literature

Summary. Open innovation and crowdsourcing offer planning practitioners new approaches to problem-solving by engaging external participants and diverse groups. Unlike traditional citizen participation, crowdsourcing uses internet-based challenges to generate solutions from large audiences. The paper examines how these techniques differ and presents case studies demonstrating crowdsourcing's potential to produce more robust outcomes than internal organizational efforts.

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Seltzer, E., & Mahmoudi, D.. (2012). Citizen Participation, Open Innovation, and Crowdsourcing. Journal of Planning Literature. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412212469112

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DOI: 10.1177/0885412212469112
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
Added: 2026-04-28