8 Steps to Effective Participatory Budgeting
Participatory budgets are a powerful tool for inclusive and accountable governance. They allow cities and towns to educate, engage, and empower their citizens along with strengthening their governance. This blog...
Only Smart Citizens can enable true Smart Cities
The concept of a Smart City, as advertised by tech giants like IBM, Cisco and Siemens, is a city with sensors in every aspect of everyday life, gathering large amounts of data and using algorithms to optimize...
Hack With Refugees: A Roundup
More than one month ago, CitizenLab started — in collaboration with a community of Brussels-based positive impact entrepreneurs — crowdsourcing ideas about how to turn the arrival of refugees into...
5 Reasons Why Your City Should Start Online Civic Engagement
Civic engagement refers to the practice of encouraging citizens to become involved in the community life and help shape the community’s future. Thanks to the rise of modern technologies, your city...
CitizenLab is born!
A big announcement: CitizenLab will shape the way tomorrow’s cities are governed, through citizensourcing and crowdgovernance. More info coming about the what, where, why, how and when. Pass by from time to...
