Category Civic Tech

Open data for participation: public dashboards that matter

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Public dashboards only help participation when they are readable and up to date. We outline data governance and design: clear goals, minimal metrics, refresh cadence and accountability. Learn how to integrate heterogeneous sources with traceability, publish datasets and metadata, and communicate limits and revisions. Simple layouts help residents and agencies track proposals, timing, budgets and delivery—turning open data into trust.

Civic tech: lean KPIs for legitimacy and delivery

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Many civic‑tech projects fade after launch because success criteria are vague. We propose a lean KPI set: reach, inclusion, participation quality, decision impact and delivery. Learn how to capture each metric with privacy‑respecting analytics, surveys and open data, and how to publish dashboards residents can actually read. Link metrics to product and policy changes with examples from cities, schools and associations.