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).
We will present information to help you decide how to SMS in your PB process, tips to choose the right SMS platform, and tools and samples to help you launch your SMS campaign.
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 processes.
Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.
Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.
