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Delib Suite

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

Active
Since 2004
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH
Open source: No (N/A)
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Evidence of this project's impact

More than 17,000 consultations efficiently run by our customers using Citizen Space. (Source)

More than $80bn of budgets consulted on via Budget Simulator. (Source)

300+ government organisations and public bodies around the world have transformed their citizen involvement with Delib.,More than 17,000 consultations efficiently run by our customers using Citizen Space.,More than $80bn of budgets consulted on via Budget Simulator. ,Over 100,000 ideas and comments in Dialogue (Source) — 2018-10

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Project(s): Delib Dialogue

Founder(s)

Andy Parkhouse, Chris Quigley, Matt Golding

Org. type
For-profit business / social enterprise / B Corp
Project type
Tool or platform
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Founded
2004
Language(s)
Welsh, English
Employees
30
Pricing
https://www.delib.net/citizen_space/request_demonstration
Used by
Our aggregator site offers a list of most of our customers and their publicly available activity - https://aggregator.citizenspace.com/ Not all customers appear on our aggregator. Organisations can choose not to be on our aggregator if their work is particularly sensitive/only internal.
Features
Custom URL, Anonymous participation, API, Assessment of ideas, Authentication, Backups, Collaborative budgeting, Collaborative drafting, Commenting, Community admin moderation, Encryption, Export data, FAQ pages, Forums and/or threaded conversations, Groups, Helpdesk, Host multiple projects, Hosted solution (SaaS), Idea submission, Integrate social media communications, Moderated discussion, Moderation services available, Modify privacy terms, Notifications, Polls, Preference voting, Prioritization setting, Promote campaigns, Pros and cons, Provide project updates, Register volunteers, Search, Sign-up forms, Supported deployment available, Surveys, Tagging, Theme pages with your brand identity, Translation, Transparent survey results, Upvoting, Participation verification, Video player, Video uploads by users, Webpage builder or CMS, Events, Demographic data comparisons / Consultation representativeness dashboards , Integrate third party tools, Mapping, Image uploads by users, Project tracking, Analytics, Voting
Tech stack
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Categories
Deliberation, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, E-voting and I-voting, Group decision making, Ideation, Participatory budgeting, Participatory budgeting tools, Participatory democracy, The Tech, Voting and elections
Tags
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Added
2021-06-22
Last modified
2026-07-12T16:45:36.000Z

Additional details

Tech stack
PWA
Institutions using the platform
250+
How AI is used
Citizen Space, from Delib, was originally developed as a joint initiative with the UK government and we continue to develop our products and introduce third-party tools mindfully with statutory processes at the forefront of our planning. It is therefore critical for us to fully test capabilities before they are introduced to our product. We currently have AI sentiment analysis running in test, and in use with one customer. Our plan is to make this more widely available in 2025 once we've verified, piloted with additional customers and are confident in our offering.
Number of end users
As of the end of November 2024, there are nearly 26,000 users in the platform. By users, we mean administrators, ie. people working in government to publish consultation and engagement activities. The platform itself has collected more than 1.2 million responses from end users/respondents.
Number of integrations
0
Metrics of success
300+ government organisations and public bodies around the world have transformed their citizen involvement with Delib.,More than 17,000 consultations efficiently run by our customers using Citizen Space.,More than $80bn of budgets consulted on via Budget Simulator. ,Over 100,000 ideas and comments in Dialogue, More than 17,000 consultations efficiently run by our customers using Citizen Space., More than $80bn of budgets consulted on via Budget Simulator.
Geographic focus
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Geographic focus — country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Pricing
https://www.delib.net/citizen_space/request_demonstration
Demo
https://www.delib.net/dialogue/request_demonstration
Documentation & learning
We have an online learning platform - https://www.delib.net/learn - this provides insights and advice on consultation and engagement processes as well as product specific features. We have an online knowledge base for the products complete with step by step articles and how-to videos - https://help.delib.net/
Support resources
https://www.delib.net/learn https://help.delib.net/ Other paid-for training, consultancy and professional services are availabler here - https://www.delib.net/learn/training-and-consultancy
Accessibility certification
Yes

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