Smart Participation Design: Prescriptive Knowledge for Bottom-Up Participation

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Civic Code for Social Change: Lessons in Civic Tech Grassroots for Software Engineers

“…Based on our case study, it appears that it is essential to have: efficient communicators, shared task management tools, and a compromise on technologies that most participants can commit to. Finding an acceptable lowest common technology denominator is important, since participant skill levels in civic tech can vary [35,36].…”