Peoples Budget Texas

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Morrisville's Award-Winning Development Scenarios Morrisville, North Carolina used GIS to build a digital twin to help community stakeholders visualize different development scenarios for the town center.

Communities In Schools forms partnership with Palo Alto College Communities In Schools will work with college students who have left school in a partnership with Palo Alto College aiming to re-enroll them.

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has recently published a framework for the future of (PB) in Scotland

PB Framework — PB Scotland The Strategic Group recommend the following overarching definition of PB: “participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens decide directly how to spend part of a public budget.

Antecedent Technology Don’t colonize our future

Could Chile show the United States how to rebuild its democracy? | Tony Karon The US once helped destroy Chilean democracy. Now, a constitutional reform movement in Chile could teach the US how to fix its own

Cities: VR Announced Exclusively For Oculus Quest 2 Fast Travel Games has today announced a VR version of Paradox Interactive’s Cities: Skylines. Aptly titled Cities VR, the port is exclusively for Oculus’ Quest 2 headset. “Cities: Skylines is the ultimate modern city-builder, and it’s an honor to bring this franchise to VR,” said Erik Odel...

It’s not all about populism: grassroots democracy is thriving across Europe | Richard Youngs Protests, citizens’ assemblies, local referendums and mutual aid groups are pushing back against attacks on civil society, says author Richard Youngs

Women of Color: The undercapitalized warriors of American democracy Women of color are not only reforming the existing broken and discriminatory practices in our democracy, they are also entrepreneurs who are building and growing new institutions that, if effectively resourced, can help us realize a truly multi-racial democracy.

What if You Controlled the Budget? An Experiment in Democracy Participatory budgeting is an experiment in grassroots democracy that gives citizens partial control of where their taxpayer dollars are allocated. Here's an...

US sinks to new low in rankings of world's democracies The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog

Come for the pizza, stay for the power: why Boston let teenagers set its budget When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million dollars a year on urban improvements, there was skepticism – not just from officials, but from youth who assumed they’d be ignored. The results surprised everyone