Putting hybrid engagement into practice
Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
A digital engagement platform to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive.
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Making sure the pool of residents you’re engaging is diverse and representative of your community at large is critical: for generating fresh ideas, ensuring buy-in, and developing policy that serves the whole community.
This might mean extending your range of engagement methods and communications strategy to reach more underheard groups – youth, the elderly, or people who communicate in a language other than your default.
Offering engagement methods that serve a diverse range of groups doesn’t have to be a headache – hundreds of participation practitioners are already using our hybrid engagement guide, filled with tried-and-true tips for diverse, representative engagement. Download your copy below.
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The Go Vocal Team
Our expert guide: hybrid engagement
Today, community members want to participate on their terms and on their preferred platforms – if you want diverse engagement, you’ll need to meet folks where they are.
Hybrid engagement rapidly shifted from an innovative practice to a standard expectation. In this guide, we'll be exploring what it takes to combine online and offline engagement methods, how to pick the right methods and some real-life examples.
In this guide:
Inspiration: Including children’s perspectives in Finland
In Finland, the city of Lahti runs an annual participatory budgeting exercise. Of the 900 submissions received this year, almost half were from children. The kids shared their ideas offline, on paper, with the engagement team using our Form Sync feature to seamlessly upload and capture their input on the digital platform.
Engaging groups who don’t have access to the internet, or don’t meet age restrictions is possible – Lahti’s project is proof that being innovative on engagement delivers vital input from a plurality of voices.
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