Residents in the provincial riding of Saanich North and the Islands will now have a new way to communicate online with their MLA, Adam Olsen. The newly-launched PlaceSpeak page allows constituents to engage meaningfully on topics that matter to them in a safe, secure, and privacy-respecting way.
A new way for constituents to engage with MLA Adam Olsen
Posted in News by Mary Leong on April 17, 2018
PlaceSpeak Partners with FoxWise Technologies to Give Communities a Real Voice
Posted in News by Mary Leong on April 3, 2018
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VANCOUVER, BC – PlaceSpeak and FoxWise Technologies Inc. announce their strategic partnership to promote PlaceSpeak’s innovative and secure cloud-based software for Community Engagement and Consultation.
“Giving people a voice on community based issues is more important today than it has ever been,” said Sam Damm, President and founder of FoxWise Technologies Inc. FoxWise is a technology solutions company with 18 years of experience serving the Canadian market. FoxWise is focused on supporting solutions that can improve the lives of First Nations people in Canada and assisting our Federal Government with rapid adoption of new ways of gathering valuable data to promote better outcomes.
4 New PlaceSpeak Features For Online Consultation Success
Posted in News by Mary Leong on March 28, 2018
As a startup innovating in the civic technology space, PlaceSpeak is continuously improving and developing new features to help organizations in all industries and sectors meet their engagement goals to make better decisions.
Based on feedback from our clients and extensive research, PlaceSpeak’s development team has been hard at work. We’re happy to announce the launch of our new topic administration, including:
- Redesigned interface
- New insights & analytics
- Granular security & visibility options
- Multiple consultation preview options
What the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Means for Online Citizen Engagement
Posted in General by Mary Leong on March 27, 2018
Recent revelations showed that Cambridge Analytica was able to obtain and use data from 50 million Facebook users to create psychographic profiles. This allowed them to deliver highly targeted and customized political advertising during the 2016 United States presidential election. The leaked blueprint for the Trump campaign indicated that they were able to “target 10,000 different ads to different audiences” in the lead-up to the election.
These findings raise significant issues around consent and privacy. The majority of users are not aware of how their data is used or what rights they have to their own information. According to one survey, 61% of respondents were “unaware of Facebook’s right to share their information with third parties.” While users need to take some responsibility for the information that they share with Facebook (and by extension, many third-party sites and apps), most Terms and Conditions are opaque and confusing, even for tech-savvy users.
PlaceSpeak Launches on TELUS IoT Marketplace
Posted in News by Mary Leong on March 21, 2018
VANCOUVER, BC – Today, PlaceSpeak announced its launch on the TELUS IoT (Internet of Things) Marketplace, which connects public and private sector organizations to products and tools developed by TELUS partners.
The IoT Marketplace curates ready-to-implement solutions across a wide range of industries to help businesses become more efficient, productive, and profitable. It enables Canadian businesses to quickly identify and request a TELUS-approved IoT solution, dramatically simplifying the complexity and reducing the deployment time of IoT technology.