Governments around the world are facing low trust levels from the public. To remedy this and innovate for a 21st-century democracy, they should focus on building a culture of engagement.
Governments around the world are facing low trust levels from the public. To remedy this and innovate for a 21st-century democracy, they should focus on building a culture of engagement.
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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With the Brexit just behind us, questions arise about the eligibility of a referendum for asking people’s opinion. A referendum issue should stand on its own. In the Brexit case, it was clear that the EU discussion was intertwined with other issues. That’s why we’ve listed three alternative public consultation methods. ...
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