mein.berlin.de and participation in urban development

Agenda Liquid Democracy e.V. digital participation by Liquid Democracy Goals and guidelines Projects meinBerlin Platform Participation processes and tools Guidelines and principles Opportunities and challenges

Liquid Democracy e.V. (LIQD) Think & Do Tank (non-profit) founded in 2009, 20 people “new concepts for more direct participation in democratic processes using digital tools and methods …” Consultancy, research, participation projects with online focus LIQD is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation/association, that is politically neutral and tries to foster direct participation and open discussion in society with the means of digital tools. It was founded in 2009 and while at the beginnign most of the work was done voluntarily we now have 21 people working for LIQD. We are an interdisciplinary team of project managers, administration,designer and developer. LIQD was founded in 2009 around the same time liquid feedback was developed. They come from a similar set of ideas but are not the same. Our goal is to find …. The main

“digital participation” made by LIQD Adhocracy (A3): collaborative toolset for discussions, working on texts, polls and rating open code/source, collaborative coding (GitHub) Developing adhocracy mostly in projects dealing with citizen and youth participation or participation in companies New: adhocracy platform with neutral design for a lot of different (smaller) towns and organisations Fostering democracy, direct participation and open discussion in society Open source, Trying to develop a sustainable software, that can be useful for as many projects as possible and can also be used longterm We try and listen to the needs of towns and organisation in the development, afer conference in Basel this year we Focus more on map based applications Platform for cheap processes

Goals and Guidelines democracy, collaboration and self-organisation: internal and in projects focus on users: few barriers, low-threshold, usability und Responsive-Design transparency: software and in processes responsible use of data We try to live what we preach Responsible use of data does not only mean data security but also the first step is to safe very few personal data. People need to register to avoid trolling but only with a name (which could be fake) and an emailadress

Projects (1/2) Target group: young people OPIN and EUth: digital and mobile participation toolbox to be embedded in web presence of youth organisations and public administration Integration of online and offline methods More Information about the project: www.euth.net OPIN platform available at: www.opin.me  OPIN is an all-in-one digital and mobile participation toolbox, easily embedded in the web presence of youth organisations or public administrations. OPIN provides participation projects with a digital home. As key elements the project provides mobile participation and explores the integration of online and offline participation.  The OPIN e-participation platform is part of the EUth project (2015-2018), a European-wide project with 11 partners from 8 European countries like the Danish board of Technology, aiming to improve digital youth participation" And by the way there is an open call for projects soon and if you are interested you can check with Katrine for more information. She has some brochures

Projects (2/2) Target group: citizens of Berlin meinBerlin: Platform for all participation processes (participatory budgeting, city planning etc.) in Berlin (state and districts) Crossmedia processes Embedding in berlin.de presence Meinberlin platform available at: www.mein.berlin.de  One of our biggest projects in the field of citizen participation is a platform for all future citizen participation processes of the city of Berlin The platform and it’s differents kinds of processes were developed together wit the city of Berlin and its districts (group of about 10 people) The project started in 2013 after the and the platform went life in August 2015

mein.berlin.de On top you can see some short explanatory texts about: why you should take part, how you can take part and how the platform and its processes work

Participation Processes on mein.berlin.de Dialogue Processes: polls with different questions and discussion main features: answer poll, commenting, rate comments Participatory Budgeting: planning local budgets with citizens (very common) main features: make and localise proposals with budget, categorise proposals, comment, rate proposals and comments

Participation Processes on mein.berlin.de Collaborative Text Work guidelines and law texts (e.g. planning the old airport Tempelhofer Feld, guidelines for civil engagement) main features: comment paragraphs or comments, rate comments Idea Collection and Discussion: a lot of different use cases in city development and city planning main features: make and localise proposals, categorise proposals, comment, rate proposals and comments Das besondere einer Städteplattform

Participation Tools in City Planning Map based processes different categories of proposals optional: including a budget map view or list view of proposals printing reporting and deleting proposals and comments Form for statements in official urban planning processes Das besondere einer Städteplattform

Das besondere einer Städteplattform

Das besondere einer Städteplattform

guidelines and principles central Login responsible use of data standardised participation processes acceptance and prominence of the platform: expanding/upgrading participation processes, mobilising, quality responsive design

Opportunities and challenges of online-participation openness vs. representativity (of perspectives) important: mobilising people and target groups with different media Best way: cross-media participation – connecting online and offline tools in urban planning Qualities of online-participation: quality of proposals transparency and documentation long term: How to ….learn democracy

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