Participatory Budgeting (PB) exists at varying scales in more than 3,000 cities across the globe and the process continues to expand both in scale and in new technology, particularly as digital technologies are being integrated into a ...
Participatory Budgeting (PB) exists at varying scales in more than 3,000 cities across the globe and the process continues to expand both in scale and in new technology, particularly as digital technologies are being integrated into a myriad of City and governmental functions. As this expansion occurs, it is critical to explore the transformative and deliberative nature of the process upon which projects are debated and developed among PB participants (often referred to as Budget Delegates), relevant City agencies, and implementation partners. This research takes a case study approach to explore the Vallejo PB program in the City of Vallejo, California, the first American city to adopt PB on a citywide scale, and explores how PB serves as a space that provides new modes of civic engagement and leadership, lessons in collaboration with other community members and City agencies, and a deep and critical understanding of local governance processes and functions.
Francis Yu
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.
