Electronic Markets has published the paper "Engaging Citizen Scientists: Designing an Open Research System for Collaborative Problem Exploration". The paper is co-authored by Michael Gau (University of Liechtenstein), Anke Greif-Winzrieth (KIT), Christof Weinhardt (KIT), Alexander Maedche (KIT), and Jan vom Brocke (University of Münster).  

Open Science aims to make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society to foster openness and transparency. Engaging in a dialogue with society to explore real-world problems is particularly important to increase the relevance of information systems research. However, reaching out to citizens and engaging them in the research problem exploration process on a large scale is challenging for researchers. In this research, we build on existing prescriptive knowledge and design an open research system to involve citizens in the problem exploration process.  

The paper is available via Open Access.