TOOL

Centralized participation plattform

Short description

"Mitgestalten.wien" is an example for a centralized participation plattform. We used it to run a survey for Unlock15 in Vienna about the future development of a street. "decidim.org" and "govocal.com" are plattforms that can help you set up a centralised participation plattform.

Unlock-hypothesis

A central participation plattform which is free to use for local administration / politicans makes it easier to run surveys with higher standards.

Lock-in Layers

institutional, behavioural

Lock-in Cluster

Lack of Motivation/Intention & Habits, Personal and Social Beliefs, Attitudes, Perceived Experience & Evaluation, Political agency

Challenges

Lack of funding, Lack of access to hard-to-reach groups

Link for further information about the tool

https://mitgestalten.wien.gv.at/de-DE/, https://decidim.org/

Link to tool materials

https://mitgestalten.wien.gv.at/de-DE/, https://decidim.org/, https://www.govocal.com/de/case-studies

Level of effort for application

low

Skill level needed for application

low

Suitable spatial context

flexible

Spatial limitation

yes

Spatial coverage

Vienna

Visualisation

Tool type

Evidence

Toolbox user types

Local government, Local administration

LLL-Application

Vienna

Languages

english, dutch, french, spanish, greek, italian, norwegian, german

Experts for this Tool

Christoph Kirchberger (Austria, German, English)