This is the amazing finding of this path-breaking book edited by Tiago Peixoto and Micah Sifry, Civic Tech in the Global South, the first systematic empirical analysis of the resulting impact of technologies for citizen engagement on governing. Using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, the different authors confirm that there is a lack of clear evidence that citizen participation produces institutional response. Whether the focus is technology to support aggregated individual assessments, such as complaint hotlines, or tools for collective action and mobilization, Peixoto and Sifry’s book rigorously lays bare that so-called “civic tech” in most cases is not producing changes in governing outcomes any more than old-fashioned dialogues in a church basement.
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