What is the Difference between Citizen Engagement and Participation?
Over the last few years, there’s been a shift from top-down governance to more horizontally organised types of government. This new political current includes all the stakeholders of public policy projects,...
The City of Liege Reinvents Itself with CitizenLab
The City of Liege has launched its city platform beginning of March! CitizenLab is helping the city reach out to its citizens to tackle the challenges of tomorrow in a digital way. Liege wants to co-create its...
CitizenLab Receives European Union Funding
CitizenLab is now co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union. Our project received €50.000 in funds after being selected for the SME Instrument Phase 1 for start-up. Moreover, CitizenLab was...
New Features: Blogging & Social Media Feed
As we want our platform to be the core of the collaboration between political institutions and cities, we added some new exciting features to it. Now, institutions can also blog and include their social media...
How is the Civic Innovation Network Helping Shape the City of Brussels?
All over the world, citizens are looking for new ways to improve their quality of life and make their city hear their voices. Some bottom-up collaborations have seized their needs and are already pushing the limits...
Participatory Budget: The Beginners Guide
A participatory budget is an innovative policymaking tool which directly involves citizens in policy decisions. It was first used in 1989 in Brazil and, since then, 1,500 times participatory budgets have been...
3 Tips to Blend Online and Offline Citizen Engagement
Online or offline citizen engagement, which strategy is best? Both online and offline platforms have their merits and when combined, they can be incredibly effective. Yet, cities don’t do this...
