PROJECT TITLE :

Open Government and Citizen Participation in Law Enforcement via Crowd Mapping

ABSTRACT :

The authors describe WikiCrimes, a project founded on a web site of the identical name that aims to supply a typical interaction house for the general public where they can note criminal activity and track the lo-cations where such crimes occur. The goal is to encourage collaborative participation that generates helpful data for everybody. The authors describe their experience with WikiCrimes, emphasizing the services it provides to voters and underlining a number of the problems they've overcome thus far. Their ultimate goal is to help establish a analysis agenda regarding the subject by inviting the academic community to embrace WikiCrimes as a platform that bridges citizen participation and open government.