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Crowdsourcing is a form of citizen participation in which an institution has a question submits to citizens via the internet in order to get citizens to think about innovative solutions to the problem. Several municipalities around the world have already used this means, but it has not yet been clear exactly how they can use it and which preconditions play a role in this. Thus, this chapter argued the concept of citizen involvement in the age of ICT by emphasizing the two related terms e-government and e-local government, then secondly the chapter underlined the importance of the necessity of citizen participation in the policymaking process. In the third section of this chapter, it has been argued the crowdsourcing concept as a tool of participation in the age of ICT. Then finally the paper outlined a model for local governments that may use the crowdsourcing approach in the decision-making process.

Ö Z Günümüzde, küresel dünya düzeni içerisindeki her ülkenin ortak gündemi Covid-19 salgınıdır. Gündemin ortaklığı kadar üzerinde görüş birliğine varılan diğer olgu ise hayatı normal seyrine geri döndürmek, salgını bitirmektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda farklı kamu politikaları izlenmiştir. Kamu politikası yapım sürecinde ele alınan ve tarihi çok da eskilere dayanmayan dürtme teorisi, sağladığı yararlar ve getirdiği kolaylıklar ile görünürlük kazandığı tarihten itibaren büyük ilgi görmüş bir teori olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Çeşitli alanlarda varlığını kanıtlasa da virüs boyutlu bir salgında ne kadar işe yarayacağı ise tartışma konusu olmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı, politika yapım sürecinde yer alan dürtme teorisi uyarınca, ülkelerin bünyelerinde oluşturdukları ya da iş birliği içerisinde oldukları takımlar aracılığı ile uygulanan politikaların etkili olup olmadığını yapılan faaliyetlere ve ilgili literatüre dayanarak tespit etmektir. Araştırma kapsamında varılan sonuç ise, bu teorinin pandemi konumundaki hastalıkla mücadele etme alanında da başarısını gözler önüne sermiştir.

Throughout the membership process of the EU, Turkey has undergone various transformations in public administration structure. For this reason, the financial and public transformation experienced by Turkey in the Europeanization process must be evaluated. Financial localization and financial sustainability (FS) in local governments are one of the reflections of this transformation. Despite being a non-profit structure, financial sustainability seems to be extremely important in terms of local government units. Financial and economic crises, especially those at global level, have highlighted the need to address FS in non-profit bodies. In the light of the above-mentioned explanations, this chapter analyses the potential correlation between organizational structure and FS in Turkish Local Government—focusing on 14 municipalities in Muğla City—by conducting in-debt interviews. Therefore, the main aim of this chapter is to show the interest of local governments to use voluntary reporting, in terms of ethical-social-environmental, as a tool for financial sustainability.

Crowdsourcing is a form of citizen participation in which an institution has a question submits to citizens via the internet in order to get citizens to think about innovative solutions to the problem. Several municipalities around the world have already used this means, but it has not yet been clear exactly how they can use it and which preconditions play a role in this. Thus, this chapter argued the concept of citizen involvement in the age of ICT by emphasizing the two related terms e-government and e-local government, then secondly the chapter underlined the importance of the necessity of citizen participation in the policymaking process. In the third section of this chapter, it has been argued the crowdsourcing concept as a tool of participation in the age of ICT. Then finally the paper outlined a model for local governments that may use the crowdsourcing approach in the decision-making process.