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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Our platform is getting smarter: one of our main concerns is that you should spend your time on what matters and leave some other tasks to the platform. Like manually creating groups of users for instance. That’s why we are launching the Smart Groups. What is so smart about them?...
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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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We are glad to finally share the news with you: CitizenLab is launching in France! Two French cities have chosen CitizenLab to help them in their online citizen participation processes: Rueil-Malmaison and L’Isle-d’Abeau. Their goal? Use the platform to launch efficient citizen consultation: engaging more citizens thanks to the reach of...
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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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The cities of Vancouver and Surrey, in Canada, are partnering together to submit a joint application for the Infrastructure Canada Smart Cities Challenge, a nationwide competition encouraging cities to share their best ideas to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology, and they have chosen...
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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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