Brendan Tobin - Citizen engagement blog - Public consultation blog

Voxcitio Project Lifecycle

Public consultation, at its best, is a collaborative exercise with citizens. Setting up a public consultation project with Voxcitio builds this participatory ethos into every step. Let’s take the example of an energy provider planning a project that will affect multiple landowners and residents over a large area so

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How Constituent Services Software Connects People With Government

Innovation in citizen engagement and constituent services is continuing all the time. Companies like iConstituent, Voxcitio and CiviCRM have made great progress in finding software solutions to the issues that face constituent offices. Like politics, all government is local and it is at this local level that things are seeing

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How Do You Stay On Top Of Constituency Matters?

Constituent services, as anyone working in government knows, is always on. Staying on top of constituent issues and understanding what makes your constituency ‘tick’ requires great quality tools. So what are those tools? Database manager - CRM Canvassing app Email blast sender Survey tool Task manager Mapping tool Constituent segmentation

Public Consultation

Best Practice for Public Consultation on Infrastructural Projects

Infrastructural projects are some of the most demanding and complicated projects to deliver successfully. Of course, success can mean more than just on-time and on a budget, it should also deliver for stakeholders who are affected by the work, particularly the general public. With this in mind, we have assembled

Public Consultation

The Breakdown On Public Consultation

Our experience with public consultation practitioners across 40 countries allows us to see best practice in action. It is remarkable to see how, even on the most diverse issues and terrains, public consultation, so often comes down to implementing a couple of key actions. We have seen these simple changes

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Smart Cities Planning Framework

Singapore is a great example for smart city planners everywhere, where they try out smart tech from all around the world to see if it will work. Their National Research Foundation is building 3D models of the city and feeding real data from city sensors into these models to help

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Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Stakeholder engagement is, increasingly, a requirement rather than a ‘nice-to-have’ element in local government and business sectors. Being proactive in the engagement process with stakeholder groups like staff, customers, vendors and the public brings huge benefits in terms of business processes and quality of relationships both internal and external. Most

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Building Smarter Cities

Smart Cities Programs What are Smart Cities? Smart cities programs are designed to improve the quality of life of its citizens. It is about creating social and economic environments that are efficient and better organized through the application of new technology and communication tools. A smart city program means local

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The Deal With Deliberative Democracy

Deliberative Democracy & How To Implement It For Local Government What is it? Deliberative democracy is an area of local government that is concerned with collective decision-making and improving the decision-making process. It has, at its core, the belief that anyone who is subject to a decision should be able

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Canvasser Tracking: The What, Why and How

Every step you take, every move you make - how canvasser tracking is creeping everyone out Canvasser tracking, the notion that you can have an online record of where your field operatives have been, has become a central element in all field operations. Whether they are sales canvassers, field researchers

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The Importance of Citizen Participation

Ever heard the saying “two heads are better than one”? Well, if anything embodies this motto it is active Citizen Participation. The Value of Citizen Participation Who knows better about governance, social development, the environment than the people on the frontline experiencing it. Sometimes the builders, designers, and architects in

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Sales Canvassing

Field sales canvassing is a simple enough operation, a game of numbers where if you knock on enough doors you will make sales. Make enough sales and you justify your canvassing program. The challenge for field sales managers really relates to two elements of this process, firstly, organizing the canvassing