PlaceSpeak is excited to be working with UBC’s Housing Justice Project on our newest topic. Many of us live in housing conditions that are less than ideal—paying more than we can afford for housing ...
One of the hopes with the PlaceSpeak platform is to increase overall rates of public participation—including youth—in consultations, through the use of technology. Recently, we found an interesting report on youth and civic engagement. The report, entitled simply “Youth ...
Online public consultation will benefit immensely when integrated with a broader social media strategy. Here are 7 quick tips from Government Technology on how organizations, and particularly governments can improve their social media performance and engagement with residents.
Updated for 2014. One of the biggest and most important ways residents can ‘claim their place’ and ‘speak their mind’ is by voting in local elections. Unfortunately municipal elections seem to be the forgotten step-child ...