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e-Participation in the Exploration of Innovations: Confronting Aedes aegypti and Microcephaly in Brazil

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Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2019)

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The Zika virus infection occurred as an outbreak of unprecedented magnitude in the Americas. Brazil was the most-affected country, with estimates ranging from 440,000 to 1.3 million cases reported as of December 2015. In response, the Ministry of Education launched a national campaign for popular mobilization, encouraging people to send proposals for innovative actions to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito through a technological platform. Analyses showed that the four-stage crowdstorming lifecycle can serve as a basis for the use of idea management platforms with the aim of gaining social participation. In addition, a highly significant relationship exists between the incidence of Zika virus cases and participation in the challenge of ideas, and no relationship exists between socioeconomic data and participation. Once positive proposals and experiences submitted for public consultation stemming from the population itself have been obtained, managers and others involved may show less resistance to implementation.

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The authors thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq, Fundação de Amparo à pesquisa de Minas Gerais – FAPEMIG e Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES for the financial support to research. The authors would also like to thanks the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq - Brazil) - Process 402789/2015-6 for financial support.

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    Thaísa Barcellos Pinheiro do Nascimento, Everton Leonardo de Almeida, Alyce Cardoso Campos & Teresa Cristina Monteiro Martins

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do Nascimento, T.B.P. et al. (2019). e-Participation in the Exploration of Innovations: Confronting Aedes aegypti and Microcephaly in Brazil. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E., Anderst-Kotsis, G., Tjoa, A., Khalil, I. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27523-5_8

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