The time has come for the next chapter: CitizenLab is now Go Vocal! 📣🎉 We have rebranded to better reflect our commitment to empowering communities and fostering meaningful participation. While our name and image have changed, we remain the same team, led by the original founders. Since our inception, we have partnered with over 500 local governments and organizations of all sizes to make local democracy more inclusive and have provided over 1,000,000 community members with a platform to actively participate in shaping their communities. We are excited to continue building stronger communities together. Want to learn more about our rebranding story? Visit our website: https://www.govocal.com/ #GoVocal #CommunityEngagement #GovTech #CitizenLab
Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
Information Technology & Services
Brussels, Brussels Region 15,472 followers
A digital engagement platform to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive.
About us
Go Vocal is a certified B Corp on a mission to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive. We have worked with over 500 governments around the world, empowering public servants to cultivate a true culture of engagement with our comprehensive engagement platform and strategic guidance. We help amplify the voices of community members, streamline the engagement process, and unlock deeper insights for more informed decision-making.
- Website
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https://www.govocal.com
External link for Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
- Industry
- Information Technology & Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Brussels, Brussels Region
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Civic engagement, SaaS, Government innovation, Smart governance, eParticipation, eGovernment, Decision-making, Public consultation, E-Democracy, Digital Democracy, Citizen participation, Online community engagement, Digital citizen engagement, Civic Tech, and GovTech
Products
Go Vocal community engagement platform
Online Community Software
You're looking to reach more people online and offline while also making your project management and insight analysis more efficient. Go Vocal’s engagement platform is designed to meet your needs. With Go Vocal, you can create tailored engagement journeys mixing various methods from our complete toolbox. You can let your team members collaborate seamlessly, each with roles tailored to their part in the projects. After a project is done, many teams end up buried in spreadsheets, struggling with time-consuming reporting, and finding it hard to make sense of data. Our built-in AI accelerates your understanding of community input. Rely on our assistant to swiftly group input by (auto)tagging keywords, enabling faster and more intuitive navigation. The AI tool can also generate concise summaries for each project, distilling key takeaways in moments.
Locations
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Primary
Boulevard Pachéco
Brussels, Brussels Region 1000, BE
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530 7th Ave
New York, 10018, US
Employees at Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
Updates
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The OECD - OCDE recently released its report on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions, which found that the factor that influences levels of trust the most is whether or not residents feel they have a voice. 🗣️ This played a bigger role in determining trust levels than socioeconomic and demographic factors – a feeling of voicelessness can overpower actual material conditions. Building trust is crucial to keeping your community onside. The OECD’s first recommendation for doing that? Using inclusive public engagement methods to ensure a diverse range of voices are heard. #GoVocal #CommunityEngagement #GovTech
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Ensuring accessibility and equal participation in decision-making is an essential part of community engagement 🙌 We recently renewed our Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) AA certification (2.2), demonstrating our unwavering dedication to making our platform accessible to as many people as possible. Here’s more of what you can expect from Go Vocal’s comprehensive accessibility framework: ✔️ Manual testing by inclusion experts ✔️ Leveraging advanced technology like browser extensions ✔️ Actively seeking feedback from users with disabilities, to keep improving our platform And to promote accessibility beyond our platform, we share our knowledge through workshops and training courses internally and externally. More on Go Vocal’s commitment to accessibility in the comments 👇
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Climate change, social equity, affordable housing, and sustainable mobility – all top priorities for UK councils 📋 To deliver on these critical priorities, it’s essential to engage your residents, harness their collective wisdom, and foster collaborative problem-solving. But are you equipped to meet this urgent need? Does your tool stack empower residents to participate in an easy and informed way? Join us for our webinar on September 24 and learn how to best tap into your community's collective intelligence. Fraser Henderson, our UK Government Success Manager with over 20 years of consultation experience, will walk you through: 🗺️ Why a powerful interactive mapping tool is crucial for effective engagement on these topics 📍 The common pitfalls in planning and placemaking consultations (and how to avoid them) 🧭 How the features of our cutting-edge mapping toolbox can empower your community engagement With Lora Botev. #GoVocal #CommunityEngagement #GovTech
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Marrying digital participation with in-person engagement 🤝 – that's how the City of Copenhagen got 14,000 residents involved in their proposals process. In our podcast, Aja Enghoff explains how her team went out to meet residents in the community, ensuring a much more inclusive process. Want to learn about the ins-and-outs of a successful citizen proposals initiative? Catch up on the latest episode of Public Square here: 🎧 https://lnkd.in/e7mt8A35 #GVPublicSquare #CommunityEngagement #GoVocal #Copenhagen #Borgerforslag
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This month's newsletter features our latest podcast episode, on how the city of Copenhagen's proposals drive is ensuring inclusion and trust with residents. In fact, this month's newsletter is all about building trust 🤝 It's jam-packed with resources curated by our community engagement experts for ensuring your engagement methods are transparent, and communicated effectively to keep everyone on the same page. All that and more in our latest newsletter, which you can read and subscribe to below 📩 #GoVocal #CommunityEngagement #Democracy
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La question de l’été : comment allier numérique et présentiel pour une participation efficace ? Les villes les plus dynamiques en termes de participation citoyenne aujourd’hui sont celles qui maîtrisent l’art de combiner les méthodes de participation en ligne et hors ligne ! Êtes-vous prêt à rejoindre leurs rangs ? Rejoignez-nous pour un webinaire instructif présentant les innovations de la participation citoyenne hybride, avec l’exemple de la Ville de Massy, qui utilise une plateforme numérique pour dynamiser ses démarches participatives en présentiel. Pour s’inscrire ⇒ https://lnkd.in/gpm_aaiX Un grand merci à Mehdi Edjekouane, Chef de projet innovation et participation citoyenne, et Thibault RICHARD, Chargé de relations habitants et démocratie locale qui viendront partager leur retour d'expérience. Guillaume Besson Zelda BAS Sébastien Levoir #GoVocal
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Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab) reposted this
CEO & Co-Founder of Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab) | Helping govt leaders engage with their community 🏛
Check out Laura Giesen's excellent overview of how generative AI is used in digital participation tools today. Exciting times ahead as new applications continue to emerge. I'm particularly keen to explore how we can scale up deliberation. More on that soon. https://lnkd.in/esM8dCEs
AI in Digital Participation Tools – Where Do We Stand?
https://democracy-technologies.org
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Keen to engage your community between election cycles? 🏋️♀️ In our podcast, Public Square, Aja Enghoff from the City of Copenhagen speaks with our host and CEO Wietse Van Ransbeeck about using bottom-up proposals to make democratic participation part of everyday life in the city. Listen here: 🎧 https://lnkd.in/e7mt8A35 #GVPublicSquare #CommunityEngagement #GoVocal #Copenhagen #Borgerforslag
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In Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg finden im September Landtagswahlen statt – aber Wahlen sind nur ein Instrument in einem immer größer werdenden demokratischen Werkzeugkasten 🛠️ Es ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, dass sich die Einwohner*innen zwischen den Wahlen such anderweitig beteiligen können, um Vertrauen zu erhalten und auszubauen. Hier ist unsere Sicht auf die Beteiligung von Menschen in Deutschland und was getan werden kann, um sicherzustellen, dass Bürger*innenbeteiligung keine einmalige Veranstaltung, sondern eine grundlegende Einstellung ist: https://lnkd.in/et6Yku9A #GoVocal #Bürgerbeteiligung