Transparency, E-Participation, and Open Government New Methods for Government Rightsizing and Agility

The government agility is one of the most important challenges in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Many analysts claim that the only way for government agility is downsizing of government in the form of privatization. However, many experiences indicate that privatization may give power to certain groups instead of directing it to the people. Therefore, it leads to rising powerful and unresponsive groups and oligarchies. Today by using recent information technology developments, methods have made for transferring government duties to the people that give the power to its main owners, which means all the people instead of certain groups. Transparency and crowdsourcing in different fields are samples of people›s maximum participation in governance. This study aims to present new methods for increasing participation and power of people in government and finally optimizing government, this can be achieved by reviewing countries experiences and different samples of transparency, crowdsourcing, and open government.