This post is part of our co-founders’ travel blog series, commenting on their learnings of visits to American cities from the West Coast to the East. To kick off our time in the US, we spent a month in the Pacific Northwest. While there, we attended the International City/County Management...
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At CitizenLab, we believe that a combination of synchronous and asynchronous participation opportunities make for the most qualitative processes. Before Covid shook the world, these synchronous opportunities were mostly happening offline. Public engagement sessions, town halls, focus groups, and citizens’ panels were almost entirely organized as in-person events. However, the...
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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 (Deputy mayor of Barcelona), Ivo Belet (Member of the European Parlement), Luc Van...
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“How do the residents of Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia experience their capital?” This is what Flemish Minister for Brussels Affairs Sven Gatz (Open VLD) and his french-speaking colleague Rachid Madrane (PS) would like to know in order to co-create their policy. CitizenLab is helping them to organize this in a digital...
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Our civic engagement platform is now optimized for geographical segmentation. Both neighborhoods and project boundaries can be mapped precisely. How does it work? As an admin, one can enter the neighborhoods within the city. For each neighborhood, CitizenLab makes a clear visual indication of the area (by using of available polygons). If...
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The key to a successful engagement project, is identifying all the involved stakeholders. Both internally and externally, people should be empowered in their roles. Grouping your stakeholders and giving them different responsibilities can help you achieve this. How does it work? A group is a collection of registered users on the...
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Governments – these bureaucratic, inefficient organisations we all know – are more and more willing to reinvent themselves and their way of working. Startups can be a great inspiration source for this. Governments can adapt a startup mentality both from within via “intrapreneurship” or from the outside by buying from startups. Innovation...
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