Mobile Governance: Empowering Citizens to Enhance Democratic Processes

[Source: MobileActive.org, February 19, 2011]

This paper offers an overview of the emerging domain of mobile governance as an offspring of the broader landscape of e-governance. Mobile governance initiatives have been deployed everywhere in parallel to the development of crowdsourced, open-source software applications that facilitate the collection, aggregation and dissemination of both information and data coming from different sources: citizens, organizations, public bodies, etc. Ultimately, mobile governance can be seen as a tool to promote the rule of law from a decentralized, distributed and bottom-up perspective. Original publication date September 1, 2010. Download the report at MobileActive.org.