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The same ten people dominate conversations, but what about everyone else? For responsive governance, you need to hear from a more representative audience.
Fragmented tools create disconnection. Different departments are using different methods and tools, trapping data in silos and hindering collaboration.
Input overload obscures insights. Processing community feedback feels like catching up on hundreds of messages - overwhelming without proper tools or costly external help.
“We decided to launch our platform with Go Vocal because of the ease of use - not only for our residents, but also for our teams! Today we have a centralized place where we can see community responses and assign people across departments to be administrators on projects. Now we’re engaging across departments and coming together to share best practices between teams.”
Explore our case studies to discover tips and best practices from successful initiatives leveraging our digital community engagement platform.
By definition, comprehensive plans are complex, long-range, and broad in scope. The planning and engagement processes for these plans often take over two years to complete. This can make it difficult to establish and maintain meaningful engagement with community members throughout the process. Using CitizenLab’s user-friendly and accessible online engagement platform, the City of Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) reached thousands of residents in their planning process over 2022, all while supporting their goal for inclusive and equitable engagement.
Faced with the daunting task of allocating $250 million as part of the Rams settlement fund, the City of St. Louis and the Board of Aldermen embarked on an ambitious digital community engagement strategy to involve residents in the fund allocation process from the start.
How do you cross the digital divide and blend online and offline (traditional) community engagement? What about during a pandemic? The City of Lancaster used online, offline, and blended approaches to ensure their diverse population was well represented in the City’s new engagement initiatives, which ranged from policing to mobility planning.
