Studies show that people across the globe developed closer connections with the natural spaces surrounding them during the pandemic. For a long time, parks, lakes, and forests offered us the opportunity to move in the outside world with a relative sense of freedom intact. As we focus on community recovery...
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Combining online and offline participation is often the best engagement option to reach a wide audience. Almere, a city in the Dutch province of Flevoland, decided to create a comprehensive strategy to support its older population. A mixed approach: offline vs online participation Before there were online platforms, workshops, and...
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We recently attended the Chat for Impact summit – a four-day virtual event powered by WhatsApp in partnership with Praekelt.org and Turn.io. The summit brought together 30 organizations, each doing incredible work to support communities around the world. Whether providing training and skills building, enriching and empowering people with the...
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One of the key actions to improving healthcare provision is to work directly with community members on the issues affecting their wellbeing. The WHO has identified community engagement as fundamental to any strategy addressing health goals. Our most recent client event brought together health organisations from across the UK, including...
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For a long time, the pandemic has kept students from their campuses, dorms, and auditoria. Learning, studying, and taking exams became digital—and often solitary—experiences. As the world slowly reopens, students are breathing a collective sigh of relief and returning to a more normalized, in-person style of growing their knowledge. But...
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As a social impact company that builds civic technology, CitizenLab recently took some important steps in how we evaluate our impact. The impact measurement framework that we designed can be used by other civic tech initiatives too, so today we’re sharing it here to help amplify impact collectively. Measuring impact...
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Traditional, top-down governance systems are increasingly challenged by more collective, consensus-oriented approaches. This means that we’re seeing more non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working actively in consortium with local governments or launching community engagement projects themselves to increase civic participation. This uptick in organizational involvement has resulted in the creation of several...
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