Understanding the smartening pattern by participatory software voluntary location-based Crowdsourcing (vgis) in order to create a citizen-centered smart city

The concept of citizen participation is not new, but nowadays there is a greater desire to use new participatory technologies with population-based or community-based strategies, such as location-based voluntary crowdsourced collaborative software (VGIS) in making cities smarter. This research is innovative in this sense. The purpose of this research is to know the effective factors in making smart using crowdsourced, voluntary, location-based technology (VGIS) from the point of view of experts and active researchers worldwide in the field of VGIS. The statistical population of this research is experts and researchers who have research records in the field of crowdsourcing technologies, voluntary geographic information system and citizen-oriented smart city. Using non-probability and purposeful sampling, 40 international experts formed the Delphi panel of the research. The current research is one of the applied researches based on its purpose and its method is descriptive-analytical according to the subject of the research and its nature. A mixed research approach has been chosen and among various types of mixed research designs, explanatory design and exploratory design have been chosen that are more suitable for these studies and exploratory factor analysis model has been used in the analysis of the results. The results of the research will help the researchers and executive officials of intelligentization in understanding the framework of the basic model in the use of crowdsourced, voluntary, location-based technology (VGIS). The exploratory model of this research includes 6 main factors of citizens, design, environmental and contextual conditions, cost, inherent and external quality of data and technical and infrastructure factors that should be considered in the design and use of technology (VGIS).