civic innovation Archives

By Wietse Van Ransbeeck Civic Engagement 20/09/2019

5 Tips for Civic Hacking

This weekend marks the 7th annual National Day of Civic Hacking in the United States. To celebrate, we thought we would share our own experience with civic hacking along with some lessons we have learned along the way. Civic hacking is the act of quickly improving the processes and systems...

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By Wietse Van Ransbeeck Civic Engagement 29/04/2019

The human factor: helping governments tap into collective intelligence

Can natural language processing and machine learning technologies foster quicker political response to citizen views on digital democracy platforms? With the Nesta Collective Intelligence Grants Programme, this is the central question we will be researching over the coming months. In many citizen participation projects, the main challenge isn’t to gather...

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