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Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.
Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).
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.
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
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.
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
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. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.
People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs
Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform
Stanford University Department of StatisticsA platform for running online participatory budgeting elections
The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).
Filterable map view of NYC's participatory budgeting projects across the city
This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.
Dalyvauk! Vilnius
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Idėja Tauragei
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Anykščiai
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
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! Klaipėda
Lithuania (Lietuva)This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
Cologne, GermanyThe Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.
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.
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
Paris, FranceThe OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
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)
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.
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
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WeVis
Bangkok, ThailandWeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.
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.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
New York CityA space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
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.
Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.
Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea
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.
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Empatia Project
Centro de Estudos Sociais Colégio de S.Jerónimo Largo D. Dinis Apartado 3087 3000-995 Coimbra, PortugalThe EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.
Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform
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
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