ABSTRACT
In recent times, several activities have been developed with the support of mass cooperation. This tendency, often adopted in public agencies and by local authorities, is based on an open government approach, as well as on a more participative method to government where citizen’s ideas and activities have to be considered and collected in a sort of a continuous flow. Consequently, public involvement, 174getting ideas, suggestions, or simply data/information production, is a daily activity fundamental in decision-making process. Obama’s administration has given a great impetus to this approach, implementing such a policy and enlarging the possibility to capture public imagination by means of social networks, blogs, and all possible solutions for directly interacting with citizens.
