In this paper, we focus on understanding the critical role of everyday citizen in planning and policy-related issues in their city enabled by the newly emerging technological platforms such as mobile-based application and internet-based participatory platforms.
"If 2009 was about the data platform, Data.gov, I would argue that 2010 is about thinking through the participatory platforms," said Aneesh Chopra, the chief technology officer of the United States.
Pelton is raising money on a crowd-sourcing platform for Dangerous, a "multi-media real world participatory platform" that seeks to not only deliver excitement to audiences – but also to deliver solutions!
In this paper we describe the design, implementation and experiences with a large scale participatory platform for city wide crowd management.
Meanwhile, the Let Girls Lead will also act as a participatory media platform enabling girls and their allies to create and upload one-minute film pitches that highlight their own inspiring stories for a global audience.
Between August 2010 and November 2011 residents in four Mexican cities surveyed (including Saltillo) sent nearly 600,000 of what Microsoft called "narcotweets" in its 2012 research on how people living in armed conflict have turned to microblogging "as a participatory news platform, in lieu of damaged state and media apparatuses".
Three interdisciplinary projects have been combined in a participatory discussion platform, in which researchers from different disciplines (economists, ecologists, social scientist and geographers) were brought together with a variety of stakeholders.
The Levävahti application (Algae Watch) was implemented on a participatory sensing platform called EnviObserver (Kotovirta et al. [2012]) and was made available for Nokia (Java ME) and Android-based mobile phones in the summer of 2011; for Nokia (Java ME), Android and iPhone phones in 2012 and 2013; and for Windows phones in 2013.
A participatory multi-platform journey with comedian Hasan Minhaj that explores the complicated and nuanced struggles of the "new brown experience" as an immigrant in America and inspires an enlightened approach to intolerance.
Participatory web-based platforms, including social media, have been recognised as valuable learning tools in healthcare education for over a decade.
The first paper "Smart Crowds in Smart Cities: Real Life, City Scale Deployments of a Smartphone Based Participatory Crowd Management Platform," by Tobias Franke, Paul Lukowicz, and Ulf Blanke [18] details a platform for city-wide crowd management based on participatory mobile phone sensing and location/situation specific information delivery.
