The PB Network has had a request to submit cases of participatory budgeting that contain a significant element of online activity. I would like to know if any of your contributors could help for my thesis research. I have launched a snowball technique to find cases worldwide of e-Participatory Budgeting (e-PB) a few weeks ago…. Read More
International
What's happening in Participatory Budgeting internationally
PB in an age of austerity
Interesting little film from a small town in Spain. Do you think its possible to do PB in an atmosphere of cuts? Or as I have heard it described "would you prefer to sacrifice a toe or a finger". Maybe having PB operate only at the small scale makes it easier, but there are huge… Read More
Jenny blogs from the NECE Participatory Budgeting Focus Group, Berlin
Below is an excerpt from a great blog from Jenny Southern, a Young Advisor who recently visited Berlin to talk about PB… and now been invited to join a follow-up meeting at the Hague… way to go Jenny… The meeting was the NECE Participatory Budgeting Focus Group on 11th and 12th October 2013 held at… Read More
New York election results: Participatory Budgeting wins big
Forwarded from the PBP website: Last Tuesday’s primary elections in New York City look to have paved the way for a major expansion of participatory budgeting. In the City Council primaries, voters chose 21 Council Member candidates who have pledged to use participatory budgeting to allocate discretionary funds in their district through the PBNYC process,… Read More
Danish council officials visit PB programmes in UK
In mid-June, PB Partners helped to co-ordinate a visit to the South East of England by 7 councillors and 5 local government managers from Denmark, in conjunction with Morten Ronnenberg from a Danish consultancy form, Strategihuset. The aim of the visit was to showcase some interesting examples of co-production, citizen engagement and participatory budgeting. Davy Jones,… Read More
Status of Participatory Budgeting in Germany: 6th Status Report, January 2013
The 6th Status Report on Participatory Budgeting in Germany provides an overview of all municipalities listed on the website buergerhaushalt.org. Since the first status report was published in 2007, it is not only the number of municipalities listed here that has grown continuously; so too have the requirements involved in listing them. This is due chiefly… Read More
The People’s Budget: US insights as an opportunity for British action (report)
Scottish Minister Derek MacKay (centre) met with Joe Moore and Josh Lerner during their visit to the Scottish Parliament – just one of the many politicians and senior officers involved in the exchange. Download the report on the USA PB exchange visit to the UK in April 2013 (PDF)
Video: democracy in action, from Chicago
Participatory budgeting allows ordinary people to decide how their municipal budget is spent. Many cities around the world employ this process. in 2009, Chicago’s 49th Ward was the first municipality in the US to embrace this novel experiment in direct democracy: regular citizens gathered to research and develop proposals on how to spend the Ward’s… Read More
Re-inventing democracy through Participatory Budgeting
http://vimeo.com/65169312 A new video from the USA, produced by the PB Project, introducing the concept of PB.
Participatory Budgeting really Is participatory in New York
A study of the participatory budgeting process that took place in Brooklyn’s District 39 this year revealed that it attracted traditionally disengaged or disadvantaged citizens. Read more on the Brownstoner website