Municipal Land Use Bylaw
Okotoks used Ethelo to revamp land-use planning, engaging hundreds of residents and gathering actionable insights on zoning, businesses, and amenities to shape their community’s future
City Budgeting
Whitby transformed its budget process with Ethelo, achieving a 7,750% participation increase, educating residents on budgeting trade-offs, and building trust through transparency and inclusion.
Salt Spring Carbon Budget Case
Salt Spring Island engaged 14% of residents online to create a consensus-backed Climate Action Plan, exceeding GHG reduction targets with 82% community support.
Grant Reviews
GitcoinDAO is a community of internet citizens funding and building digital public goods, such as open-source software and climate projects. Since 2017, Gitcoin has distributed over $51.4 million USD to public projects, supporting a pool of more than 312,000 monthly active developers. Grants, hackathons, and open bounties are the lifeblood of the ecosystem.
Solana integration
Future, a decentralized organization on the Solana blockchain, is dedicated to improving blockchain governance. In 2022, Future entered its new Insights application into Colosseum’s Radar Hackathon, DAO & Network State track — using the first private release of the Ethelo API.
National Smart City Granting
Ethelo enabled Infrastructure Canada to streamline evaluating 130 Smart Cities Challenge proposals using 17 criteria, fostering collaboration, reducing errors, and improving efficiency.
Nation Budgeting
The Squamish Nation used Ethelo’s Citizen Budget platform to engage members in budget decisions, improving education, priorities alignment, sovereignty, and financial decision-making