Abstract One of the most urgent debates of our time is about the exact role that new technologies can and should play in our societies and particularly in our public decision-making processes. This paper is a first attempt to introduce the idea of CrowdLaw, defined as online public participation leveraging new technologies to tap into diverse sources of information, judgments and expertise at each stage of the law and policymaking cycle to improve the quality as well as the legitimacy of the resulting laws and policies. First, we explain why CrowdLaw differs from many previous forms of political participation. Second,we reproduce and explain the CrowdLaw Manifesto that the rising CrowdLaw community has elaborated to foster such approaches around the world. Lastly, we introduce some preliminary considerations on the notions of justice, legitimacy and quality of lawmaking and public decision-making, which are central to the idea of CrowdLaw.
In: Birdi, Kamal and Griffiths, Kerry and Turgoosea, Christine and Alsina, Victòria and Andrei, Daniela and Băban, Adriana and Bayerl P., Saskia and Bisogni, Fabio and Chirică, Sofia and Costanzo, Pietro and Fernández, Charlotte and Ficet, Joël and Gascó, Mila and Gruschinske, Mario and Horton, Kate and Jacobs, Gabriele and Jochoms, Theo and Krstevska, Katerina and Mirceva, Stojanka and Mouhanna, Christian and van den Oord, Ad and Oțoiu, Cătălina and Rajkovcevski, Rade and Rațiu, Lucia and Reguli, Zdenko and Rus, Claudia and Stein-Müller, Susanne and Stojanovski, Trpe and Vallet, Nathalie and Varga, Mihai and Vít, Michal and Vonaș, Gabriel (2020) FACTORS INFLUENCING CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE SHARING BY POLICE ORGANISATIONS: AN INTEGRATION OF TEN EUROPEAN CASE STUDIES. Police Practice and Research - An International Journal. ISSN Print ISSN: 1561-4263 Online ISSN: 1477-271X
The globalisation of crime means there is an increasingly vital need for effective sharing of knowledge by police organisations across international borders. However, identifying the complexities and challenges of this aspect of international collaboration has been relatively neglected in previous research. The research reported in this paper therefore set out to identify the major barriers and facilitators of international knowledge sharing. Research teams in ten European countries produced ten case studies of knowledge sharing across borders, either involving direct cooperation between police forces in different countries or through international agencies such as CEPOL or INTERPOL. The integrative findings showed that the major influences on knowledge sharing could be theoretically categorised in terms of organisational factors (e.g., technological and staff capabilities), inter-organisational factors (e.g., quality of relationships, shared visions and systems), inter-country factors (e.g., bilateral conventions, legislation) and knowledge characteristics (e.g., clarity, legal sensitivity). Practical implications include standardising technology systems across countries, improving inter-organisational trust through exchanges and physical co-working, developing police members' knowledge and skills with regards to collaborative working and creating joint agreements and visions. Research implications highlighted the need to test the findings in non-European contexts and to comparatively focus on specific types of collaboration.
