The ladder of citizen participation in the digital era
As you may know by now, “citizen participation” refers to the process of allowing citizens to participate in the public decision-making process. When it comes to citizen participation, the government...
How These 10 Belgian Cities Are Using CitizenLab
Already more than 10 Belgian cities and municipalities are using CitizenLab to boost their online citizen engagement. As the software allows cities to easily fit in the current ongoing projects, all these cities...
New Admin Dashboard for Your Citizen Participation
Do you want to easily oversee how your community of citizens engages online? We do think so! That’s why we created an analytics dashboard for city administrators that show you all key metrics in a nutshell....
5 Most Common Myths About Citizen Participation
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about citizen participation and what it entails. This article aims at uncovering some of them notably by showing the differences between online and offline participation....
What is Citizensourcing?
Everybody has heard of crowdsourcing, the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal — often innovation, problem solving, or efficiency. Thanks to the modern web and its growing connectivity,...
Citizen participation for the digital age
Why we’re building a digital platform for civic participation As a citizen of any city, you daily see things that could be improved. Be it an idea to bring communities closer together, be it a mobility solution...