Passive Public Participation Mechanism for Construction Project Decision Based on Mobile Internet

Public participation can move up the democratic image, especially for public projects. The project can receive social support, which is much important for the successful implementation. Active and passive participation are two ways for public participation. The active participation methods, such as referenda, public hearings, etc., depend on participant’s profession, technology, experience, and his initiative attitude. Most traditional public participation has active methods which prove to be time-consuming and ineffective. Therefore, this paper proposes a passive participation method which depend data from mobile internet. A passive public participation mechanism for project decision-making will be built based on potential public portrait from mobile internet. It is found that public portrait based on data from mobile internet can help the project sustainable decision process. This paper provides an efficient way to achieve fully public participation for the construction project decision. It can also help to reduce the time and transaction cost of the participation process in the early decision-making procedure.