The Future of Europe: Our 3 Takeaways from the Eurocities Debate
Yesterday, I had the honor to share my ideas on the future of Europe during a Eurocities debate in the city hall of Ghent. The panel consisted of Daniël Termont (Mayor of Ghent and Eurocities president), Laia Ortiz...
3 Citizen Profiles You May Be Missing out If You Don’t Use Online Citizen Participation
As a policy-maker, you are aware that citizen participation is key to building inclusive municipalities. To collect the ideas of your fellow citizens, you know the drill: paper polls, town hall meetings, and even...
The Future of GovTech: Key Takeaways from Pioneers
Last week I had the privilege to represent CitizenLab at an exclusive gathering between some of Europe’s most influential decision-makers and a small group of GovTech startups who were handpicked by the...
CitizenLab discusses future of governments with EU’s Vice-President
This Thursday 1st of June 2017, CitizenLab will join an expert panel of Presidents, Ministers and forward thinking influencers in a discussion of how governments could improve transparency, implement crowdsourced...
3 Ways of Capturing Citizen Input
We learned from our customers that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution to capture citizen feedback. You want to make use of the mechanism that optimally serves the needs of your participatory design....
Civic Tech’s Next Breakthrough? Spatial Cocreation
Crowdsourcing platforms already are a great solution for environment planning, but they could revolutionise it altogether. Web platforms for local cocreation are an essential component of the ongoing democratic...
Why the Blockchain Could Transform the Face of Digital Democracy
Blockchain, the ground-breaking technology for decentralisation underlying the bitcoin, could play a prominent role towards stronger democracies in the digital age. Although wide-scale case studies are still...
Wallonia Says Yes to Participative Democracy
Public press covered our collaboration with Wallonia, here’s what they said … With the recent launch of the platforms of Mons and Liège, two of its largest cities, Wallonia strengthens its ambition to...
How to Measure Success in Online Citizen Engagement
Engaging citizens in policy-making on the internet is a relatively new practice, but one that usually comes with massive expectations. But what exactly should be measured when we speak of true success in an online...
5 Tips for Opening Government Data
It seems we still live in the infancy of open government data, which is all about availability and quality. In this post we submit 5 more suggestions to usher in the mature age: open data as a prized participation...