Resumen de Crowdsourcing the digital parliament

Fotios Fitsilis, George Mikros

• Parliaments will eventually not evade the digital evolution of every institutionto become data-driven organisations. This study examines the HellenicOptical Character Recognition (OCR) Team, a pioneering crowdsourcinginitiative aimed at processing and analysing parliamentary data. Undercertain conditions, crowdsourcing, in other words, the power of the people,can be appropriately channelled and exploited to support representativeinstitutions and their societal stakeholders in managing their changeprocesses. Based on survey findings, this research highlights the profiles andmotivations of participants, identifies best practices for crowdsourcing inparliamentary contexts, and demonstrates the initiative’s impact onimproving data accessibility and transparency. The results suggest that theHellenic OCR Team significantly contributes to the digital evolution ofparliamentary functions and promotes greater public involvement in thelegislative process.