Digital Platform Ratings
/To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.
Read MoreGuide to Digital Participation Platforms
/This guide explains key features of these civic-tech tools, shares lessons learned from users around the world, suggests best practices, and offers several practical resources to guide selection and implementation.
Read MoreResearch: Supporting Community Access to Digital PB Tools in Scotland→
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Democratic Society and Scottish Community Development Centre hosted an exploratory and discovery research project to understand what community digital participatory budgeting could look like for communities in the future.
Read MorePB Scotland Guide: Digital Tools for PB→
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This resource highlight some useful digital tools which can support a Participatory Budgeting process - from complete solutions to useful individual tools.
Read MoreNew Digital Participation Resource launches
/A new resource from People Powered takes you through each step of developing digital tools for your participatory budgeting project.
Read MoreWatch: Community Digital PB Developer workshop
/On the 8th June 2021 Demsoc and SCDC brought together PB Scotland members and developers of online democracy tools to discuss how they can be used for PB processes in Scotland.
Read MoreTaking Participatory Budgeting Digital in Renfrewshire
/We recently spoke to Kellie Miller, Senior Policy Development Officer at Renfrewshire Council, about their response to developing PB processes for young people as part of their Celebrating Renfrewshire work.
Read MoreWatch: Digital PB Learning Event
/Here’s your chance to catch up on what we discussed during our digital PB learning event.
Read MoreLearning event report: Participatory Budgeting in a Digital World
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Read about and watch this PB in a Digital World online workshop held on 18th November 2020
Read MoreEvent report: PB In a Digital World
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Read about our PB in a Digital World online workshop held on 25th August 2020.
Read MoreLearning event: Participatory Budgeting in a Digital World
/This online learning event will explore digital approaches to PB.
Read MoreCreating online spaces for deliberation
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A recent co-produced paper by The Democratic Society and Australia’s newDemocracy Foundation highlights useful components and exercising that can be used when taking deliberation ‘online’.
Read MoreHow digital tools can keep democracy going during lockdown
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Nesta share the digital tools that can keep democracy going during lockdown.
Read MoreGuide on digital participation in Europe
/Dutch organisations ‘Democratie in Actie, ‘Netwerk Democratie’ and the Like! project have developed a guide on local practices of digital participation in Europe.
Read MoreeDemocracy for Canadian Cities receives a Major Boost
/Ethelo has received a $300,000 Social Innovation Fund grant from the McConnell Family Foundation to advance eDemocracy.
Read MoreOnline PB in Reykjavik: making democracy easier and more fun
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As part of their work developing the use of digital participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland, Demsoc has been sharing inspiring examples of how digital tools have been used for PB around the world. This time they’re looking at Reykjavik’s long-standing PB process. This blog was written with the help of Róbert Bjarnason, who gave them a short interview about Reykjavik’s PB process. Róbert is Chief Exec of Citizens Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation, whose technology has been used in this process. Citizens Foundation are also one of the providers we’ve worked with to support digital PB in Scotland.
Read more here.
Podcast: Dreaming Digital- Dumfries & Galloway Making Ends Meet
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Annie Cook speaks to Colin Freeman, Community Empowerment Manager for Participatory Budgeting about his experiences running Participatory Budgeting in Dumfries & Galloway.
Read MoreAntwerp’s consensus-based Participatory Budget
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Demsoc’s interview with Hanne Bastiaensen about her work on Antwerp's consensus-based PB process .
Read MoreDigital participatory budgeting in Scotland – learning report
/The Democratic Society have published a new report which provides a summary of learning around digital PB in Scotland since 2016.
Read MoreLearning Event: Digital PB, Monday, 25th March 2019
/With chance for discussion and networking, we'll look at why digital is so important to PB practice going forward in Scotland.
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