Sustaining Participation for Rediscovering the Citizenship: Technology for public value

Technologies open up to public organization sustaining democracy, restoring public trust, promoting public interest as responsive institutions fostering citizenship and collaboration in order to uphold participation in front of citizens feeling unheard and disenchanted by traditional representative and democratic institutions facing the challenge of dealing with a mixed polity embracing elements of representative and direct democracy emphasized and strengthened by democratic and participatory potential of new technologies driving public institutions and citizens to act as active co-producers of social, democratic and public value. Sustainability of public organizations seems to rely on embracing new technologies for connecting with citizens opening up to contribution and participation in order to make effectively participatory and democratic government agencies and public administration.