2019: A Big Year for Ethelo
You hear a lot these days about how democracy is in decline around the world. Given this climate, the need for democratic practice is perhaps greater now than at any time in recent history. That’s.
Citizen Budget Offers a Realistic Approach to Budget Engagement
If you’ve ever worked in finance administration at a local government, then you know citizens and colleagues alike love to complain about how tax dollars are, or are not, being spent. Have you ever.
How Ethelo Works
Ethelo is collaboration technology designed for solving multi-factor decision problems, particularly when issues are contentious and there is a requirement for fairness.
Embrace the “path of least resistance” to mitigate risk and drive change
From the United States to the UK and around the world, political polarization is rising. We’ve seen frustration with the status quo manifest itself in the Brexit vote, Donald Trump’s election, and.
Integrate Citizen Budget into your Bang the Table Platform
In the digital age, the options for engagement platforms are bountiful. The choice is no longer about whether or not to digitize your engagement, but which platforms can best serve your community’s.
Why Carbon Budgets and Community Engagement are so Important
So we have declared a climate emergency…now what?.
Online Budget Consultations: the Next Milestone in eDemocracy
Just like any social innovation, democracy is liable to evolve and improve over the course of time. Today, our democratic systems have the unique opportunity to be greatly enhanced by modern.
What’s Fair in Group Decision Making? And How Do You Achieve It?
The idea of a “fairness dilemma” permeates nearly every type of group decision, whether in government, business, or even among a family. In an ideal world, everyone involved in the decision-making.
What is a municipal carbon budget?
This blog is part of a series of the top questions that came out of Ethelo eDemocracy’s recent Webinar, Top Ten Questions About Carbon Budgets and Public Engagement, where we discussed how.
It’s time to act like this is a climate emergency
Climate change is an emergency, but to most people, it seems to feel more like a pesky problem that someone else needs to solve. It isn’t something that feels personal, urgent or fixable.