Citizen participation starts from the local community
With Hoplr in your municipality, you increase the neighbourhood's engagement. Social cohesion, offline contact and engagement are the basic requirements for meaningful and inclusive citizen participation. It's all about dialogue, working together and even getting your hands dirty.
Go from communication to participation. A modern municipality listens and knows the talk of the town. This way, policy making can be tailored to the needs of citizens.
Participation through Hoplr shifts the focus from the individual to the local community. This way, we can involve the silent majority. After all, an idea or initiative only really has meaning when the entire community can get behind it.
We launched a number of ideas from the policy memorandum via our neighbourhood platform Hoplr. 25% of all hoplr users participated. The statements were read 34,721 times, 1,831 votes were cast and 301 responses were received across the 10 statements. On top we got another 33 policy suggestions. The first part of our participation process on the 2020-2025 policy memorandum has already been successful.Read the case study of Boechout
Module functionalities
Public participation platform
Gather all participation projects on one public participation platform with your own house style and URL of choice.
Collect ideas from citizens
Citizens can add ideas or initiatives to your participation projects.
Create an individual inquiry or poll.
Ask for the opinion of citizens and receive arguments and counter arguments.
Launch a participation project or campaign
Start a dialogue with citizens. Perfect for cocreation and longer trajectories. You can count on our team's support for setup, launch and monitoring.
Conduct an anonymous survey
Compose a questionnaire for anonymous, objective inquiries. Hoplr surveys can be made available for distribution outside of the network.
Launch a referendum
Set up a referendum in which participants verify their identity. Referendums can also be made available outside of Hoplr.
Public participation platform
Gather all participation projects on one public participation platform with your own house style and URL of choice.
- Overview page
- Project pages
- Surveys
- Participatory budgets
- Public links
Collect ideas from citizens
Citizens can add ideas or initiatives to your participation projects.
- Choose a theme for your project
- Define a timeline or a deadline
- Select which neighbourhoods you want to reach
Create an individual inquiry or poll.
Ask for the opinion of citizens and receive arguments and counter arguments.
- Vote: citizens can vote "FOR" or "AGAINST"
- Score: citizens can give a score from 1 to 10
- Multiple choice: citizens choose an option
New bicycle path downtown? New traffic situation on Avery Lane?
Launch a participation project or campaign
Start a dialogue with citizens. Perfect for cocreation and longer trajectories. You can count on our team's support for setup, launch and monitoring.
Conduct an anonymous survey
Compose a questionnaire for anonymous, objective inquiries. Hoplr surveys can be made available for distribution outside of the network.
Launch a referendum
Set up a referendum in which participants verify their identity. Referendums can also be made available outside of Hoplr.