User:Roy Numa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Civic technology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because its relevance to our course as it discusses civic technology in various countries around the globe. This article clearly depicts the discrepancies between various countries regarding their individual and governmental relationship. My preliminary impression of this article was that it will give a brief overview of how civic technology applies to different countries.

Evaluate the article
I believe that the information in the article is very much relevant to the article title as it begins by defining civic technology and proceeds to give concrete examples of how civic technology is used in various countries. No information distracted me because the article is concise and provides relevant examples and factual data. As a whole, the article cites every claim and does not use opinionated phrases, therefore I concluded that the article is neutral. However, throughout the article, the examples for the government-led initiatives were underrepresented when compared to the citizen-led initiatives. I checked the links throughout the article and they all provided relevant support to the specific claim and are all working effectively. The citations are composed of different peer-reviewed research papers, governmental databases and books that all supported the article's claims. Most of the sources that I looked at were created in the past five years, thus the article was up-to-date. Some areas of this article need more information especially in the citizen-led initiative sections. Further, the section on South American civic technology has very little information and lacks detail on both citizen-led initiatives and government-led initiatives. The talk page of this article discusses the need for more up-to-date, concrete examples of civic technologies and how they apply to government and citizen relations. The article is rated start-class and low importance and is part of various WikiProjects including WikiProject Technology and WikiProject Politics. Question: What impact does social media have on civic technology around the globe?