What can you do when residents are suffering from ‘consultation fatigue’, with a low sense of efficacy due to lack of change? A slide deck.
Public toilets are essential for the wellbeing, dignity and mobility of many. Here’s how open data helps them. A slide deck.
Using Decidim Barcelona’s Open Data API to analyse the political process of participatory democracy in the city.
Exploring the use of Bootlegger, a synchronous participatory media tool, to capture everyday stories, contributing to the production of a neighbourhood plan.
Where is the crossover between civic tech and smart cities – and to what extent can the former, with its years of hard-won experience, shape the latter?
Roma Capitale expects not only to boost innovation policies at local level but also to improve the civic approach to the city.
Consul’s participation software is used by 90 governments in 18 different countries, giving citizens a voice in decisions about their own neighbourhoods. Slide deck.
How do you effect the fundamental rethink from service user to service provider? Slide deck.
The urban barometer, uses digital technologies to engage with citizens and provide evidence on subjective aspects of wellbeing to guide policy makers
How the Open Data Institute encouraged take up of their toolkit for data-informed policy development by local councils. A notes document.
In New York, development proposals that increase density are required to assess the environmental impact of that increase. A slide deck.
Looking at two projects which used civic tech to better engage with public: design services to be used by local people; and collecting opinions about autonomous vehicles. A notes document.
Across South Africa, municipalities recognise that community engagement in local policy-making is crucial for effective governance, but they nonetheless struggle with low and unrepresentative participation.
What are the barriers preventing people from engaging in planning? How do people want to participate? What does good and effective engagement look like?
Citizen Space Geospatial incorporates interactive mapping and geospatial data throughout the digital engagement process — and it will have broad-reaching implications for the field of public participation.
One of the key barriers to housing development is public understanding of development proposals and the true impacts these might have. Improving understanding of development proposals is as important as improving the user experience and opportunity to participate in the planning process.
In 2016, the Berlin City Senate released its official 3D city model as Open Data.
The Ideation Lab converted the model to work within Minecraft, a computer game especially popular with children and young adults.
Putting the capital’s unused commercial properties to use as ‘meanwhile spaces’. Slide deck.
Produced thanks to a TICTeC Labs grant, this case study documents how the World Bank worked with the government to empower local communities to make decisions, facilitated by a digital platform.