Virtual community workshops for next-level engagement

Take your community engagement up a notch by using our workshops feature. We listened to feedback from our 200+ clients and created a way for you to engage your community members through small-scale, live, interactive discussions. 

Unlike traditional video meeting tools, our workshops feature is designed for local governments with your specific needs at the forefront.
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Online engagement with an expanded scope

Traditionally, online platforms are reserved for the collection of ideas while deliberations happen in person. It’s time to change that, especially now that the pressures of a pandemic have forced governments to find new ways to interact with their residents.
Example of a community workshop on the CitizenLab platform.
Example of the back-end of the community workshops feature on the CitizenLab platform.
You can divide participants over different break-out rooms of up to 50 people.
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Example of a community workshop on the CitizenLab platform.
The participants are discussing how to make their neighborhood more child-friendly.

Engage community members,
moderate discussions, and
make decisions together in real time.

The benefits of in-person, but online

Why choose only one type of engagement? Hold live video meetings, facilitate simultaneous group discussions, and encourage deliberation. Gather input, vote, and reach consensus, just like you would offline.

One centralized tool

Why bother navigating multiple tools? Workshops are available directly on your CitizenLab platform, making it easy to keep up with of all your participation projects.

Security first

Rest assured, our video participation is powered by by Jitsi, an open-source software which doesn’t collect any personal data. All communication between user's devices and servers are point-to-point encrypted.
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"I am immensely pleased that so many people made their voices heard and shared their ideas with us. The numerous positive ideas strengthen our policy and ensure that we can set priorities that reflect reality. The user-friendly and well-arranged platform that Citizenlab has certainly contributed to the success of our participation initiative.”

Mohamed Ridouani

Mayor, City of Leuven
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“This is the best way to include citizens in our policy-making. A referendum has a much bigger impact than anything that is discussed in the city council. We want to organise a referendum like this every year, and we’re going to ask our citizens what they want to vote about.”

Vincent Van Quickenborne

Mayor of Kortrijk

Easy to set up.
Easy to use.

Custom setup for admins

Create your own project, define your topics, and add your own logo and visual identity

Clear step-by-step approach

Custom timelines help you and your citizens to keep an overview of the project.

Easily share your content

Easily share your documents, webcam and resources in plenary sessions

Simultaneous discussions in small groups

Use breakout rooms and topic-specific groups.

Real-time engagement

Collect and streamline input, comment and vote on ideas, pull out main themes, and reach consensus.

No limits on participation

Large crowd? No problem. Add as many participants as you need, and split them up into manageable discussion groups of up to 50 participants.
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