But while there is significant citizen engagement in many areas, public services are not, on the whole, sufficiently orientated to include citizens at their core.
Research by the European Commission in 2013 found that "young people regard voting as one option among many, and they show their political engagement in many different, issue-specific ways that can potentially influence policies more directly".
For news organisations, the question is no longer whether or not we want to engage with our audience: no news organisation that wants to be relevant in the digital age would dream of retreating from social media, and engagement in many forms is vital to our survival.
There is an increasing interest in using game mechanics to foster user engagement in many real-world contexts.
Apart from the side-effect profiles and suboptimal deployment of existing medical diabetes therapies, there remain issues around patient engagement in many aspects of their lives.
While poor quality of life (QoL) is widely-associated with low levels of engagement in many health-protective behaviors, the relationships among health-related quality of life (HrQoL), well-being, and preparedness are virtually unknown.
Employee engagement scores in many organisations remain high, possibly creating a false sense of wellbeing – it is certainly unlikely in the current environment that it is because staff are happy.
While many governments acknowledge the importance of diaspora engagement in development, many still lack the capacity to design effective policies and implement them on a meaningful scale.
To investigate the potential factors determining individuals' engagement in PEB, many scholars created a hypothetical model based on two major theories: the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the Stern's value belief norm (VBN) theory.
In our research, however, we have noticed that many biobanking initiatives follow somewhat different definitions and practices of public engagement, and that in many cases, the public is only one target of engagement among many others.
But typical of actors with higher job rank, their lower in-degree scores suggest that they were not as active in direct engagements with many others.
