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Ethelo helps people and citizen’s organizations build a public mandate for political change
Ethelo enables groups to have a collective voice on political issues ranging from community actions to public policy and legislative change
If you or your organization would like to use Ethelo to build a public mandate for social change, please contact us
Explore how Ethelo works
Law and policy-making require integrating multiple, diverse perspectives. In this real-life demo, international policy experts were asked to evaluate a series of proposed legal terms and definitions, to eventually ratify a proposed U.N. law.
It’s difficult to design laws without effectively consulting the public that will be impacted by them. This demonstration explores how Ethelo can be used to design new legislation around the legalization of marijuana, looking at key issues including warning labels, mandatory minimums, age of access, taxation, residential growing and personal limits.
A community is building a neighbourhood park and would like to consult with local residents about which facilities should be included. There are some budgetary constraints, and whatever facilities are chosen must fit within the available land. Ethelo enables local residents to collaborate in designing a park that everyone will like.
In this participatory budgeting, demonstration, Ethelo streamlines citizen-based crowdsourcing for resource allocation. Here a City has a budget of $1.5M, and they want their citizens to decide on ways to spend it, among a selection of options.
Feedback
“They are a great solution for engaging a group in collective decision making. And the team is friendly and helpful."
William Azaroff,
Director of Business and Community Development
“This new technology helps us accelerate the conversation in real-time, but its also allowing us to get deep and robust insight that Im not sure how we could capture otherwise."
Elizabeth Geller,
Community Investment Manager
“Our public consultation services require easy-to-configure and user-friendly digital platforms, and our recent pilot of Ethelo in a community planning project was a successful collaboration. The team at Ethelo are very thoughtful about how to build their platform to support projects like this."
Vince Verlaan,
Professional Engagement Specialist
“An exceptional advance on the state of the art and can be considered new benchmark of state of art that is clearly ahead of competitors."
Public Works Supplied Assessment Panel
“We are a national organization with limited capacity to meet face to face with our members. As we revised our industrys standards and practices it was critical to hear which changes they wanted to see. Most importantly, our members needed to be an active part of the process to ensure organizational buy-in when it comes time to implement these changes."
Engagement Coordinator,
National Member Association
“This has been an incredible learning experience for us. We are definitely reaping the benefits of this online platform and are thrilled that it was a successful as it was. You have been terrific to work with."
Engagement Coordinator,
National Member Association
“I wanted to make it as apolitical as we could. There were some pretty robust discussions. How do we take care of each other? How do we look after each other? How do we look at people not for the defects we have, but the gifts we all bring? One gentleman told me he was going to rethink what being in a community means."
Gordon Hogg,
MLA
“We were looking for a tool that allowed a deeper level of deliberation and engagement than was possible with surveys. What drew us to choose Ethelo was its unique ability to identify strongly supported decisions within contrained situations."
Conrad Cone,
Innovation & Engagement Advisor
“Fast response to requests and questions – I hugely appreciate this. Lightning turnaround time – We had lots of changing information right up to the launch of this survey. I appreciated how fast you got this up and running."
Kristin Quayle,
Communications Coordinator,.