For the last several years, CitizenLab has been working to build a community. Over the course of those years, we had the privilege of convening hundreds of clients at meetings and feedback rounds to gather their input on our platform and around the idea of online community engagement more broadly....
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The reason why so many cities and municipalities use digital platforms? A decision-maker always strives for the greatest possible transparency, inclusiveness and responsiveness. This is not only the case for daily political work in the field, in the municipal council or in other administrative bodies, but also online. Politicians usually...
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It seems we still live in the infancy of open government data, which is all about availability and quality. In this post we submit 5 more suggestions to usher in the mature age: open data as a prized participation tool. 1. Answer data demand An excellent way to create databases...
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It seems we still live in the infancy of open government data, which is all about availability and quality. In this post we submit 4 suggestions to usher in the mature age: open data as a prized participation tool. 1. Ease of use “Dataset” is too often a synonymous for...
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Open Belgium 2017 –the Belgian conference on open knowledge– is now only a few weeks away. One of its core themes is the leveraging of open data to increase citizen participation in public life and policy-making. Before the discussion kicks off CitizenLab presents its take on what connects data and...
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