How is the Civic Innovation Network Helping Shape the City of Brussels?
All over the world, citizens are looking for new ways to improve their quality of life and make their city hear their voices. Some bottom-up collaborations have seized their needs and are already pushing the limits...
City as a Platform: How It Changes Governance
What is the future role of city governments? As digital technologies are changing the way we interact with each other, cities have to undergo a transition as well. Tomorrow’s government is not merely a...
Four Steps to Enhanced Crowdsourcing
Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has grown to significance through crowdfunding, crowd collaboration, crowd voting, and crowd labor. The idea behind crowdsourcing is simple: decentralize decision-making by...
10 Must-Read Books About The City Of Tomorrow
With the Easter holidays coming up, you might find some more time to grab a book and learn about the city of tomorrow. We have curated our favourite list of books in the fields of urbanism, governments,...
5 Ways Crowdsourcing Serves Our Governments
Friedrich Hayek wrote in 1945: “The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form.” Today’s networks enable institutions to gain access...
5 Tips for Civic Hacking
Last weekend, the Hack With Refugees hackathon took place in the heart of Europe (yup, that’s Brussels — eat that, Donald!) to execute on ideas that have been generated for over two months on a...
A Network of City Makers
Over the past couple of years, the City Makers movement has been taking off. City Makers are people who singlehandedly initiate change in their urban surroundings and are shaping the city in transition. Citizens in...
From Tech to People: Takeaways from Smart City Expo 15
Last week the CitizenLab team was present at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. It won’t be exaggerated if you’d call it ‘a gathering of the brightest minds in the urban...
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,...
