Betri Reykjavik, or Better Reykjavik is an online platform that hosts two participatory initiatives: Citizen Foundation and Your Priorities. It is freely accessible by any government or municipality around the world.
The DEMOS project was designed to enable civic participation in the debate about high-profile law proposals in the Buenos Aires Legislature in Argentina, using the open-sourced DemocracyOS software of the non-governmental Democracia en Red foundation. The web app used was demos.legislatura.gov.ar.
In 2015 the City of Melbourne embarked on a refresher of their 2008 plan, Future Melbourne. The original plan laid out a vision for the city and considered how it would meet future challenges. Throughout 2016, a large-scale engagement process was facilitated to help update the plan and ensure that...
Note: the following entry is in need of assistence with content updating and editing. Please help us complete it. Problem and Purpose Democratic governments need to increase their capacity for effective problem solving to address sustainability, the greatest challenge of our time, in a way that brings the people with...
In 2014 Mornington Peninsula Shire Council in Victoria, Australia embarked on a community engagement program as part of its review of waste management. The engagement program involved three activities - an online forum, a telephone survey and a face-to-face deliberative forum. The program was successful in engaging a large number...