Citizen Participation Suite

Engage citizens in productive new ways online

Productive citizen participation helps improve policy outcomes. As more voices are heard, a broader perspective is shared and trust is built in the community. Today, innovative online tools make managing citizen input easier while expanding engagement to a wider base. With about 80% of North America online, it is necessary to effectively leverage the most powerful communications media available.

The Citizen Participation Suite is the most efficient way to hear from a broader group of residents. Using online engagement tools, it’s easy for more people to contribute ideas for community improvement and provide feedback on current initiatives. These tools are a convenient way for citizens to stay in engaged in the governing process and in turn, help the organization collect timely and actionable input from citizens.

The Citizen Participation Suite makes it easy to consolidate and organize public opinions. Staff can run reports and distribute them to elected members or department heads, giving them a deeper understanding of public opinion before they make decisions.

Granicus is the only provider of a platform for both open idea generation and integrated public meeting feedback.

Collect and prioritize community ideas

• Let residents share ideas for community improvement

  Allow the public to easily contribute ideas to a website dedicated to community idea sharing. As residents post ideas, other citizens, elected officials, and staff can join the conversation by voting for an idea, adding comments, and even sharing ideas to social networks.

• Recognize ideas - let your community know you’re listening

  Encourage greater participation by acknowledging ideas. Administrators can change the status of ideas as they are considered and planned internally. Contributors can follow their idea’s progress and stay involved in their government’s decision-making process.

• Get focused answers on important topics

  With forums and groups, get feedback on a specific initiative or idea. All responses are related to your subject, helping you narrow ideas to what’s most important to the organization.

Let your residents submit ideas for community improvement. Citizens can vote, comment and share other ideas, helping you prioritize what’s most important.

Productively add new voices to the democratic process

• Make participation in public meetings simple and productive

  Encourage citizens to comment on the issues at hand with an online form tied to your upcoming meeting agenda. Residents can leave feedback on agenda items from any internet-connected device, making participation easy.

• Reveal public opinion with a comprehensive report

  Automatically produce an organized, concise and comprehensive report of all agenda comments for your elected members. Help them better understand the opinions of a broad group of citizens before making final policy decisions.

Leverage cloud-based citizen engagement tools

• Save staff time managing public input

  Reduce the administrative overhead of collecting and maintaining citizen feedback. Now, staff can easily run reports for elected members or various departments and share how the community is responding to particular topics.
   

• Get up and running quickly

  This fully hosted, cloud-based solution can be implemented in a matter of days. Launch your new citizen engagement tools on your timeline and start building a stronger community now.

Mobilizing Community Ideas

The integration with iLegislate^® puts the public discussion on the iPad, providing idea demographics, direct agenda item feedback, and opinion percentage reporting, anywhere, anytime.