Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK. There will be a gathering of the PB Network and its partners, the Empatia programme and Brunel University London, on: Thursday 2nd June 2016, from 1.30pm until 6.30pm. Register here for your free place The PB dialogue is taking place… Read More
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Latest news about Participatory Budgeting
Boston Youth Leads the Change: Come for Pizza, stay for the power.
The PB Network has been reporting on innovations in Participatory Budgeting, and so we are pleased to read this update on Boston Youth Leads the Change on the Guardian Newspaper’s Cities webpages. As reported by Sandra Larson on the 31st March 2016: "When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million… Read More
Voice your Choice Scarborough… The results are in
A Voice Your Choice decision-making event was held in Scarborough on Wednesday 9 March 2016. The results are in! Residents in Scarborough came out in force to cast their votes at the sixth and final Voice Your Choice Decision-Making Event held on Wednesday 9 March 2016 at Scarborough Library. The theme for this year’s Voice… Read More
Shining light on the well manicured hands on the public purse
This blog, written by Jez Hall for the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University makes some contentious claims that might not be agreed on by all. In the blog, excerpts of which are published below, it is argued that participatory budgeting can have cost benefits that are usually ignored. "Advocates for… Read More
More parish councils give residents a way to have their say through PB
On the 9th April 2016 Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council, covering three villages near Keighley, North Yorkshire, will be launching a new Participatory Budgeting initiative. Around £20,000 of parish council funds will be available, split proportionally across the three villages. Ideas for how to spend the parish council’s money will be gathered following… Read More
Imagine: Could Participatory Budgeting work in Northern Ireland?
As part of the Imagine Belfast festival of ideas, held in March 2016, Jez Hall led a workshop exploring whether the citizens of Belfast could really influence how money was spent by Belfast City Council. The workshop was organised by the Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), and included a mixed audience of about 30… Read More
PB Network Unconference video
Participants at the PB Networks October 2015 Unconference talking about why they believe Participatory Budgeting is important when public bodies engage with citizens in sharing power. Especially over the use of public money. This film includes the voices of just some of the many participants at the UK PB Network Unconference held in Birmingham in… Read More
Scottish Government starts 2016 with boost for Participatory Budgeting
A recently released statement by the Scottish Government indicates a significant boost to Participatory Budgeting (PB). This follows a commitment in the Programme for Government announced by Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland to expand Participatory Budgeting activity north of the border. Now Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi has announced more communities will be able… Read More
Participatory Budgeting awareness grows in Russia
We often report on PB internationally, but until now there seems to have been little awareness of PB in one of the largest countries in the world. However it seems times are changing. We increasingly pick up items from Russia such as an interview with Ilya Sokolov, director of the Budget Policy Department at Russia’s… Read More
The New York City Participatory Budgeting Rap
View the New York PB rap, produced in 2012, with music by Drew King, and created by the International Studies Film Collective – Marymount Manhattan College
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