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Raising and allocating public funds
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How to Spend Your City’s Money: In a system known as participatory budgeting, citizens tell the government what to do. The New Yorker
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Localwatch
AthensCivic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του
Dalyvauk! Anykščiai
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Klaipėda
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting
Faro, PortugalThe World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.
Fundusz sołecki
Poland (Polska)Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities
Dalyvauk! Vilnius
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Rosario Participa
Rosario, ArgentinaUnite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
demokratie.today
Mühlleite 13, 91465 Ergersheim, GermanyDeutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
The People's Money
New York City, NY, USANYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
L.A. REPAIR
Los Angeles, CAThe Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.
City of Sacramento Participatory Budgeting
Sacramento, California, USAOn June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.
Decidimos Monterrey
MonterreyEn Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
New York CityA space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
Zencity Engage (formerly Civil Space)
British ColumbiaBring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.
Site OpenPB
ParisThis site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.
Citizink
Málaga (Spain)citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto
Discuto
Amtsgasse 13aOnline collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Budżet obywatelski w Warszawie
Warsaw, PolandThe City of Warsaw's custom participatory budgeting platform
Oficina
OFICINA Association, Estrada Senhora da Saúde, 32A, 8000-500 FaroPlanning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting
Participace 21
Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)
chengdupb.net (e管家)
ChengduChinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices
Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu
Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform
Finland, Helsinki 00100, Fredrikinkatu 55aDigital heart for building cities together
BiPart
Italy (Italia)Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making
OmaStadi
Helsinki, FinlandHelsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting
People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs
Abre Tu Muncipio
Santiago, ChileDigital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.
Delib Simulator
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHPublic engagement has never been easier
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Ethelo
VancouverEthelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
Social Pinpoint
Newcastle, NSWSocial Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.
Open active voting
Iceland (Ísland)"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."
OpenBudgets
EuropeA toolbox for analyzing and visualizing public budget data as well as support participatory budgeting
AppCivist
The CITRIS Invention LabAppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.
Participez Nanterre
Nanterre, FranceBienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative. A Decidim instance.
Neighborland
Boulder, CONeighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.
CONSUL
AmsterdamOpen source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Delib Suite
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHMakers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.
Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform
Stanford University Department of StatisticsA platform for running online participatory budgeting elections
Cap Collectif
25 rue Claude-Tillier 75012 Paris, FranceLa plateforme d’intelligence collective la plus complète et la plus polyvalente sur le marché.
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