Last week, CitizenLab headed to the city of lights to attend one of the most renowned events in the GovTech sector: the GovTech Summit! Every year, this event gathers Europe’s brightest and mightiest to rethink the structures of government. This year was no exception, and we ended up having some...
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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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The City of Vilvoorde has launched its city platform end of January! CitizenLab is helping them to centralize their participation efforts in a digital way. Vilvoorde promotes citizen participation The City of Vilvoorde makes its citizens participate online in the public policy. They want to puts its citizens at the heart of hot topics and...
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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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When engaging citizens online, it is crucial from the beginning to manage their expectations. Most engagement projects have a concrete decision making process. CitizenLab now introduces a dynamic timeline to help governments communicate on this transparently. How to do it? As an administrator of the CitizenLab platform, you can easily activate...
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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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Even in the digital era we’re currently in, using online government services can sometimes feel like stepping into a time machine. However, governments across Europe are waking up to the need to bring their technology into the 21st century. They are starting to acknowledge the many benefits of using third-party...
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