It’s that time again—the time of the month where we browse the digital newsscape for compelling snippets of knowledge and serve them to you in one freshly curated list. On the radar this month: how to organize the vaccine rollout, close the digital gap, move a movement forward, tackle data...
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Scaling our impact while practicing transparency and equity Maybe you’ve already heard: we’re going open source! In 2015 my co-founders and I launched CitizenLab with one goal in mind: to make decision-making more open, inclusive, and equitable. Over time, we have helped more than 275 local governments and organizations across...
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Beveren is a municipality of 49,000 people in the Belgian province of East Flanders. It’s home to the Waaslandhaven, an essential part of the Port of Antwerp. The port attracts a lot of trade and shipping, but it also impacts traffic in the local community. Trucks, and an increasing number...
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And just like that, it’s March again. Winter’s cold has thawed, but our cities aren’t quite teeming with life just yet. A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time for reflection. This past year has been profoundly transformative for people, workplaces, organizations, communities, and governments worldwide. We’ve been forced to...
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What makes a good community engagement tool? How do we prioritize new features? And what are the next big things on the horizon for community engagement? Digital tools are evolving so quickly that it’s often difficult to keep up. At CitizenLab, we’re constantly working to better understand which features will...
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Participatory budgeting (PB) is a process through which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. While PB may have started over 30 years ago, the first PB project didn’t launch in the U.S. until 2009 when Chicago became the first city in the country to try...
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Looking to launch a participatory budget in your city? You’ve come to the right place. CitizenLab works with over 200 local governments to help them boost community engagement, and over the years we have accumulated experience working on participatory budgets of all shapes and sizes. Here are some of the...
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