Participatory Budgeting can be used to solicit community feedback to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects.
It provides 24/7 access to an organization, and the location-enabled project ideas drive community engagement and help efficiently triage ideas to the person or department responsible for project scoping. Input gathered in the public application often makes up for gaps in official knowledge and brings the people and their government closer together as a community. It also allows historically disenfranchised groups to participate, leading to new ideas in government. Participatory Budgeting is typically implemented by planning departments, public works agencies, and other local government agencies that want to increase transparency and solicit feedback from the public and ultimately build a community in which everyone’s voice can be heard.
The Participatory Budgeting solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you solicit project ideas from the public, triage and monitor these ideas, and incorporate popular ideas in future capital improvement plans.
Deploy the solution
This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.
See Deploying a solution for more information.
Requirements
Participatory Budgeting requires the following:
- ArcGIS Online
Information products
Participatory Budgeting includes the following information products:
| Item | Description | Minimum user type |
|---|---|---|
| Participatory Budgeting | An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to learn how they can become involved in the participatory budgeting process | Not required |
| Participatory Budgeting | A Crowdsource Reporter app used by the general public to identify, discuss, and prioritize project ideas | Not required |
| Participatory Budgeting Manager | A Crowdsource Manager app used by local government personnel to triage project ideas submitted by the general public | Contributor |
| Participatory Budgeting Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by local government personnel to monitor project ideas reported by the general public | Viewer |
When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 1.0 (Nov 2020) |
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