1. mein.berlin.de and participation in urban development

2. 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

3. 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

4. “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

5. 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 adress

6. 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:
OPIN platform available at:
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 ( ), 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

7. 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:
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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Das besondere einer Städteplattform

13. Das besondere einer Städteplattform

14. 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

15. 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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