Tools for Online Public Engagement
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- coUrbanize: List project information for development proposals and gather online feedback.
- Cityzen: Gathers feedback by integrating polling and social media sites.
- Community Remarks: Map-based tool for facilitating dialogue and collecting feedback.
- Crowdbrite: Organizes comments for online brainstorming sessions and workshops.
- EngagementHQ: Provides information and gathers feedback for decision-making.
- MetroQuest: Incorporates scenario planning and visualizations for informing the public and collecting feedback.
- SeeClickFix: For reporting and responding to neighborhood issues.
- Neighborland: Forum that encourages community discussion and action at the neighborhood level.
- PublicStuff: Communication system for reporting and resolving community concerns.
- MindMixer: Ideation platform for community projects.
- NextDoor: Private social network and forum for neighborhoods.
- Adopt-a-Hydrant: Allows citizens to help maintain public infrastructure.
- CivicInsight: Platform for sharing progress on development of blighted properties.
- i-Neighbors: Free community website and discussion forum.
- Recovers: Engages the public in disaster preparedness and recovery.
- EngagingPlans: Information sharing and feedback forum for productive participation.
- Street Bump: Crowdsourcing application to improve public streets.
- neighbor.ly: Crowdfunding platform to promote local investment in improvement projects.
- TellUs Toolkit: Map-based tools for engagement and decision-making.
- Budget Simulator: Tool for educating about budget priorities and collecting feedback.
- CrowdHall: Interactive town halls meetings.
- Citizinvestor: Crowdfunding and civic engagement platform for local government projects.
- Open Town Hall: Online public comment forum for government.
- Shareabouts: Flexible tool for gathering public input on a map.
- Poll Everywhere: Collects audience responses in real time, live, or via the web.
- Tidepools: Collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information.
- Community PlanIt: Online game that makes planning playful, while collecting insight on community decisions.
- Open311: System for connecting citizens to government for reporting non-emergency issues.
- DialogueApp: Promotes dialogue to solve policy challenges with citizen input.
- Loomio: Online tool for collaborative decision-making.
- PlaceSpeak: Location-based community consultation platform.
- Citizen Budget: Involves residents in budgeting.
- e-Deliberation: Collaborative platform for large group decision-making.
- CrowdGauge: Open-source framework for building educational online games related to public priority setting.
- Citizen Space: Manage, publicize, and archive all public feedback activity.
- Zilino: Host deliberative online forums and facilitated participatory meetings.
- WeJit: Collaborative online decision-making, brainstorming, debating, prioritizing, and more.
- Ethelo Decisions: Framework for engagement, conflict resolution, and collective determination.
- Community Almanac: Contribute and collect stories about your community.
- GitHub: Connecting government employees with the public to collaborate on code, data, and policy.
- VividMaps: Engages citizens to map and promote local community assets.
- OSCity: Search, visualize, and combine data to gain insight on spatial planning. (EU only.)
- Civic Commons: Promoting conversations and connections that have the power to become informed, productive, collective #civic action.
- Crowdmap: Collaborative mapping.
- Codigital: Get input on important issues.
- All Our Ideas: Collect and prioritize ideas through a democratic, transparent, and efficient process.
- Neighborhow: Create useful how-to guides for the community.
- OurCommonPlace: A community web-platform for connecting neighbors.
- Front Porch Forum: A free community forum, helping neighbors connect.
- PrioritySpend: Prioritization tool based on valuing ideas and possible actions.