The Potential of Citizen Platforms for Requirements Engineering of Large Socio-Technical Software Systems



: Ruohonen, Jukka; Hjerppe, Kalle

: Hess, Anne; Susi, Angelo

: International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

: 2025

: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 31st International Working Conference, REFSQ 2025, Barcelona, Spain, April 7–10, 2025, Proceedings

: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

: 15588

: 295

: 303

: 978-3-031-88530-3

: 978-3-031-88531-0

: 0302-9743

: 1611-3349

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88531-0_21

: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88531-0_21

: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03195


Participatory citizen platforms are innovative solutions to digitally better engage citizens in policy-making and deliberative democracy in general. Although these platforms have been used also in an engineering context, thus far, there is no existing work for connecting the platforms to requirements engineering. The present paper fills this notable gap. In addition to discussing the platforms in conjunction with requirements engineering, the paper elaborates potential advantages and disadvantages, thus paving the way for a future pilot study in a software engineering context. With these engineering tenets, the paper also contributes to the research of large socio-technical software systems in a public sector context, including their implementation and governance.



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