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Understanding Civic Crowdfunding as a Mechanism for Leveraging Civic Engagement and Urban Innovation
Technology Innovation Management Review ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-31 , DOI: 10.22215/timreview/1356
Bastiaan Baccarne , Tom Evens , Lieven De Marez

This article studies the emergence of government-initiated civic crowdfunding platforms. Such platforms can be considered as governmental responses for bottom-up peer-to-peer support mechanisms related to urban innovation, which also allows top-down governance and governmental support systems for civic entrepreneurship. To better understand the implications of these innovative ICT-enabled interaction interfaces for collective urban innovation, this study investigates participation inequalities from the perspective of campaign instigators, using in-depth interviews (N=28), and from the perspective of the citizen-funder, using a survey (N=265). The analysis shows that urban crowdfunding practices mainly contribute to higher-level development of collective identities with increased neighborhood capacities. Although participation in such ICT-enabled interaction interfaces could reinforce digital inequalities and existing power balances, this research shows a more nuanced perspective, in which online and offline practices intertwine. Furthermore, while civic crowdfunding campaigns are driven by a traditional ‘participation elite’, the deliberation process on development projects involves new publics that are not typically engaged in civic activities. Hence, civic crowdfunding formulates a new mode of civic engagement in which institutional involvement acts as a trust broker between civic funders and civic entrepreneurs, as well as adding legitimacy to innovation processes in the public sphere.

中文翻译:

将公民众筹理解为利用公民参与和城市创新的机制

本文研究了政府发起的公民众筹平台的出现。这种平台可以被视为政府对与城市创新相关的自下而上的点对点支持机制的回应,这也允许自上而下的治理和政府支持公民创业的系统。为了更好地理解这些创新的 ICT 支持的交互界面对集体城市创新的影响,本研究从竞选发起者的角度,使用深度访谈(N=28),以及从公民资助者的角度调查了参与不平等, 使用调查 (N=265)。分析表明,城市众筹实践主要有助于提高社区能力的集体身份的更高水平发展。尽管参与此类基于 ICT 的交互界面可能会加剧数字不平等和现有的权力平衡,但这项研究显示了一个更加微妙的视角,其中在线和离线实践相互交织。此外,虽然公民众筹活动是由传统的“参与精英”推动的,但发展项目的审议过程涉及通常不参与公民活动的新公众。因此,公民众筹制定了一种新的公民参与模式,其中机构参与充当公民资助者和公民企业家之间的信任经纪人,并为公共领域的创新过程增加合法性。其中线上和线下实践相互交织。此外,虽然公民众筹活动是由传统的“参与精英”推动的,但发展项目的审议过程涉及通常不参与公民活动的新公众。因此,公民众筹制定了一种新的公民参与模式,其中机构参与充当公民资助者和公民企业家之间的信任经纪人,并为公共领域的创新过程增加合法性。其中线上和线下实践相互交织。此外,虽然公民众筹活动是由传统的“参与精英”推动的,但发展项目的审议过程涉及通常不参与公民活动的新公众。因此,公民众筹制定了一种新的公民参与模式,其中机构参与充当公民资助者和公民企业家之间的信任经纪人,并为公共领域的创新过程增加合法性。
更新日期:2020-05-31
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