Open government is one of the most closely watched trends in GovTech. While the idea that governments should be more transparent and collaborative isn’t new, it has been gaining momentum in recent years. The growth of public-private partnerships and the development of increasingly complex algorithms behind democratic tools have also...
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Looking to launch a participatory budget in your city? You’ve come to the right place. CitizenLab works with over 200 local governments to help them boost community engagement, and over the years we have accumulated experience working on participatory budgets of all shapes and sizes. Here are some of the...
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What’s the relationship between tech and democracy? What online spaces can deliberation take place in? What does open democratic innovation look like? On November 20th, we co-hosted an event with Dreamocracy to try and answer some of these big questions with key thinkers in the field. Here are our 5...
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Creative Bureaucracy is a thing now. It’s so much of a thing, in fact, that it has its own festival, where thousands of civil servants and policy-makers connect over talks and workshops. We tuned it to the online event to learn more about innovation in government, public service culture and...
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Citizens’ assemblies come all the way from Ancient Greece. Their original purpose was to give all citizens a say in the decision-making process and to reach consensus through deliberation. The rules may have evolved since 6th century BC, but the aim remains the same: to facilitate in-depth deliberation between a...
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Linz (204,846 inhabitants), Austria’s third-biggest city, is known for its baroque architecture, its museums, its centre for electronic arts… and its actions in digital democracy. In 2019, the city launched a new participation platform to widen the scope of public engagement, allowing citizens to participate on any topic, from anywhere,...
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This interview is part of a series of 12 expert interviews on the future of digital democracy. You can read the full white paper with interviews here. Stephen Boucher is the founder of Dreamocracy, a think-and-do tank and consulting agency. He teaches political science at Sciences Po Paris, at the Solvay...
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