A gamified crowdsourcing framework for data-driven co-creation of policy making and social foresight

Over the last decades, communication between governments and citizens has become a remarkable problem. Governments’ decisions do not always match the visions of the citizens about the future. Achieving such alignment requires cooperation between communities and public institutions. Therefore, it’s essential to innovate governance and policymaking, developing new ways to harness the potential of public engagement and participatory foresight in complex governance decisions. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework that combines crowdsourcing and data analysis to improve the crowd’s collective engagement and contribution in policy-making decisions. Our approach brings together social networking, gamification, and data analysis practices to extract relevant and coordinated future visions concerning public policies. The framework is validated through two experiments with citizens and policy-making domain experts. The findings confirm the effectiveness of the framework principles and provide useful feedback for future development.