Participatory budgeting
Collaboratively raising and allocating public funds
Suggested reading:
- How to Spend Your City’s Money: In a system known as participatory budgeting, citizens tell the government what to do. The New Yorker
- Take a deeper dive into PB in an entire issue of Local Development & Society dedicated to the topic (free to download until 2025)
Delib Simulator
Public engagement has never been easier
Open Procurement
OpenProcurement is an open source e-procurement toolkit.
Delib Suite
Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.
Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform
A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections
Cap Collectif
La plateforme d’intelligence collective la plus complète et la plus polyvalente sur le marché.
Participatory Budgeting Project Toolkits
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 processe...
Neighborly
Neighborly delivers access, efficiency and transparency to borrowing communities and investors in the municipal bond market.
Participatory budgeting SMS outreach guide
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).
Go Vocal
The only platform you need for meaningful community engagement.
Ecrivons Angers
Angers participatory budget - a Decidim instance
Decidim
Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
Paris Budget Participatif
Paris Participatory Budget
Hromadski Project (Громадський проект)
One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.
New York City Council Participatory Budgeting Idea Map
Filterable map view of NYC's participatory budgeting projects across the city
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America
by Hollie Russon Gilman. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and...
CivicBudget
Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.
Your Priorities
Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.
OmaStad Game
A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting
ConsultVox
Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence
Participatory Budgeting Project
Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
Social Pinpoint
Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.
OpenBudgets
A toolbox for analyzing and visualizing public budget data as well as support participatory budgeting
Participez Nanterre
Bienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative. A Decidim instance.
Civocracy
Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Ethelo
Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
Open active voting
"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."