Loomio
Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action
Wellington, New Zealand
2011
coop
https://ethelo.com/
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.
Active
Since 2011
Vancouver
Open source: Yes (https://github.com/Ethelo/ethelo-os-engine/blob/main/LICENSE.txt)
Resources
- Project type
- Tool or platform
- Country
- Canada 🇨🇦
- Founded
- 2011
- Language(s)
- Spanish, Korean
- Employees
- 8
- Used by
- We have worked with more than 150 local governments across Canada, as well as the Canadian federal government, regional governments as well as foundations, web3 communities, first nations, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
- Features
- Collaborative budgeting, Voting, Forums and/or threaded conversations, Analytics, Translation, Moderated discussion
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Civic forums, Communicating with the government, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, E-voting and I-voting, Group decision making, Ideation, Online forums, Participatory budgeting, Participatory budgeting tools, Participatory democracy, The Tech, Voting and elections
- Added
- 2021-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:45:37.000Z
Additional details
- Institutions using the platform
- We are project based. About 400 organizations have used the platform.
- How AI is used
- Ethelo does not integration AI directly however, we use sentiment analysis and theming/coding in the analysis we provide to clients after projects are concluded. This can include cross-tabbing and segmentation.
- Number of integrations
- 0
- Geographic focus
- Canada 🇨🇦
- Geographic focus — country
- Canada 🇨🇦
- Demo
- buildbackbetter.ethelo.net
- Documentation & learning
- Yes.
- Support resources
- https://ethelo.zendesk.com https://training-tutorial.ethelo.net Other materials available on request
- Accessibility certification
- WGAC 2.0 AA
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