What is CitizenLab?
CitizenLab is an online civic engagement platform designed to facilitate participation, collaboration and co-creation between governments and citizens. Some key features of CitizenLab include:
- Public consultations - Governments can easily create and manage public consultations to gather citizen input on policies, projects, budgets and more. Survey tools, idea management and more are included.
- Participatory budgeting - specialized tools for running participatory budgeting initiatives that allow citizens to allocate parts of public budgets.
- Petitions - citizens can create and manage petitions to advocate for causes. Petitions can be targeted towards governments and agencies.
- Volunteering - tools that match citizens with local volunteer opportunities and nonprofits seeking volunteers.
- Ideation campaigns - pose challenges to citizens and leverage collective intelligence to crowdsource innovative ideas and solutions.
- Large network - platform has partnered with over 100 governments and cities globally to build a large engaged community of citizens.
- Analytics and impact measurement - detailed analytics on community engagement, demographics, behaviors and impact.
Overall, CitizenLab serves as an end-to-end civic engagement platform designed to foster transparent, inclusive and meaningful participation between governments and citizens.