At CitizenLab, we want to shape digital citizen participation. As cities are increasingly becoming more important than nations, it’s time to unlock that powerhouse of collective intelligence. CitizenLab’s mission is to make tomorrow’s governments more citizen-centric. So, who better than citizens to tell us how they would like to see this...
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As you may have understood by now if you are a regular reader of the CitizenLab blog, enhancing your citizen engagement processes by adding a digital component is crucial. It is the answer to most of your questions regarding civic engagement: how do I reach more people? How do I...
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Launching a successful participation initiative online is not something that you should leave up to chance. It is essential that, even before the start of the citizen consultation, all the stakeholders sit around the table to clearly state what their expectations are, as well as which levers are going to be...
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In the run up to the State of the Nation Address, the new South African president launched GovChat, a nationwide initiative to boost citizen engagement. Via the online platform, powered by the Belgian startup CitizenLab, citizens are invited to have a direct say on the future of their country. State...
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During the Interconnectés Forum 2017 in Lyon (France), we met up with Stephen Boucher, professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and author of the book Petit manuel de créativité politique [in English: Little manual of political creativity]. We talked about participatory democracy...
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In the last three months, the CitizenLab team accompanied more than ten cities and municipalities in launching their online participation platform. With each of these platforms, we saw different examples to collect the intelligence of their citizens. We wanted to share with you this variety of use cases: Combining both...
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This year the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona will be bigger than ever: more cities, more exhibitors, more speakers, and more inspiring talks by experts! The focus of this year is citizen empowerment, and that’s a topic dear to us. At CitizenLab, we picked our must-attend talks over the...
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