Democracy has to reconcile the often competing forces of public planning, participation and decision-making. Agile tools and processes help to allow enough space for different interests and perspectives to be aired, enabling them to be fairly reconciled, in turn yielding useable results. That’s what we work towards in our Berlin and Hamburg offices.
Our projects span a broad spectrum, from a public participation platform in Togo to prize-winning online participation in spatial planning, via the public consultation concept for the German commission on the storage of highly radioactive materials. Additionally, we implement eParticipation projects such as participatory budgets and urban planning discussions for public sector customers. Interested? Please do not hesitate to contact us.
Economic development, education, civil society: the Bertelsmann Foundation is one of the largest German think tanks.
The second largest German city is one of the pioneers of eGovernment within Germany.
The 3,500 employees of the state authority are responsible for traffic infrastructure in the second largest German federal state.
The northermost federal state supports its local authorities in the introduction of a common solution for involving the public in urban and spatial planning.
T-Systems is one of the leading service-providers for IT and communications technology.
The Berlin district of Lichtenberg has involved its citizens in budgeting decisions since 2005 through participatory budgeting.
The commission, constituted by the lower and upper houses of the German Parliament, was charged with devising criteria for the selection of a nuclear waste storage site.
The Department of Public Policy Analysis is part of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Brazil, founded in 1944, which is one of the world’s largest think tanks and tertiary education facilities.
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Do your ideas match our work? At the beginning of our best projects was always a vague idea. We would be happy to welcome you for a brief informal meeting: Visit us in Berlin or in Hamburg!