2020 didn’t quite turn out as planned. This year should have been the year where we celebrated our 5th birthday with a bash and launched our first global conference. Instead, it was a year where we collectively had to reinvent the way we work, the way we connect and the...
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Friedrich Hayek wrote in 1945: “The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form.” Today’s networks enable institutions to gain access to the wealth of creativity and insights that exists in the wider society. In a previous blog post we talked...
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We have worked with +125 governments across 11 countries to launch digital citizen participation. Now, we’re looking for reliable partners to join our forces, and shape local democracies for the digital era together. In 4 incredible years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with (local) governments in Austria, Belgium, Canada,...
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2019 was a big year for CitizenLab. Four years after it was founded, our digital democracy platform is now actively being used by 200.000 citizens in 75 different cities. And yet, it still feels like it’s only day one. We’ve got big plans for the upcoming year: new functionalities, an...
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Over the last years, civic technology has increasingly reached maturity, as more and more governments have started using online platforms to consult their citizens. However, most of these consultations are done on a set of narrowly defined topics, helping to implement existing policies… rather than getting new policies on the...
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This article was published on Apolitical. Find the original article here. In recent years, “Civic Tech” and “GovTech” have become popular catch-phrases, often loosely used to describe innovations in the field of government and citizen participation. But are they really the same thing? Despite sounding very similar Civic Tech and GovTech actually...
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Last week I had the privilege to represent CitizenLab at an exclusive gathering between some of Europe’s most influential decision-makers and a small group of GovTech startups who were handpicked by the organisation of Pioneers Festival. Here are some of my key take-aways from our discussion on the future of governments. ...
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