Inverclyde Community Choices Platform
Community Choices Platform
Inverclyde Council have a new community engagement platform called Inverclyde Community Choices.
This is a digital tool for citizen participation enabling open, transparent and democratic engagement between public bodies and communities
The Software was developed by Madrid City Council and currently used by 100 cities in 55 countries across the world
The Platform has five key elements:
- Debates - Enables people to express the issues that are important to them. Creates space for listening, collaboration and sharing of issues and ideas
- Proposals - People can submit proposals at any time on a subject or issue. Proposals can gather ‘supports’ up to an agreed threshold. When the threshold is reached, the proposals can be moved to the voting section, where a vote can be taken for or against the proposal, or be directly considered to be carried out.
- Voting - The voting module allows people to vote on citizens’ proposals. The local authority may ask citizens to vote on specific options within a proposal
- Collaborative Legislation - A space to propose and discuss legislation and open documents for consultation
- Participatory Budgeting - Allows citizens to directly propose and decide how to spend part of a local authority’s budgeting is spent. Any registered user can make proposals and vote on the ideas of others. The budget can be divided different categories and or areas.