Whichever type of project you are thinking of implementing, crowdsourcing ideas from your community is a good step to include. You can better understand your residents’ interests by enabling your community to share their ideas and feedback. Here are four ways to design high-quality idea crowdsourcing projects. 1. Make it specific...
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Quality community engagement helps you tap into the collective intelligence of your community and enable more inclusive, participatory, and responsive decision-making. Digital engagement platforms like CitizenLab can help ensure representation in your engagement efforts so you hear more from traditionally underheard or underrepresented groups. However, just providing an online community...
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Can you believe we’re already halfway through the year? As the saying goes – time flies when you’re having fun! And in CitizenLab’s case, plenty of developments have kept time flying: we grew rapidly with the addition of 20 new team members and released 63 updates & upgrades across our...
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Three years ago we asked ourselves, “How can natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies help digital democracy platforms?” CitizenLab developed a feature that realizes just that. In 2022, we released our “Insights” feature to help our clients analyze and categorize community feedback on their community engagement platforms. This...
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