E-participation Tools in Science and Business Sphere Implementation: The Case of XPIR-Platform for Participation in Education Policy

The paper is focused on impacts appeared as a result of e-participation tools development. The authors paid attention to education and science sphere with the purpose to analyze how education policy could be formed relying on electronic interaction forms. A crowdsourcing platform XPIR has been selected as a research object. This platform gives an opportunity for prominent scientists, business and government authorities from the Ministry of Education and Science to interact and create new policy trends and projects. A complex of document analysis, web-site analytics, in-depth interviews with the portals' holders provided an intensive analysis stressing the developmental factors and the critical impacts. The researchers used XPIR website traffic statistics and applied DBSCAN algorithm for clustering the selected features. The achieved data and clusters allowed us to make some conclusions about possible ways of forming the policy in a branch on the base of usage website.