Meet the Directors
Tam Shardlow chats with the Directors of Bang the Table, Matt Crozier, Karthik Reddy and Dr Crispin Butteriss about their motivations for founding the business and some of their observations of a young industry.
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Port Macquarie-Hastings Council’s Participatory Budgeting Strategy Adds Up
A thoughtful online and offline engagement strategy is helping Port Macquarie-Hastings Council rekindle its community’s trust. “We’ve never had a financial conversation like this before,” notes Communications Manager Lyndal Harper on Council’s “Budget Priorities” engagement strategy. “The community support we’ve had for it has been reflected in the comments arriving on our online forum; such [...]
Bang the Table protects your privacy
Following publication of an article in Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald, Browsers Beware as Polical Websites Plant Spy Devices, we received an inquiry via a client regarding our practices in regard to tracking user behaviour on and beyond the websites we manage. For the record we don’t collect any information about individual user behaviour on any [...]
Demo Video: New side bar functionality of EngagementHQ
Our friendly client liason and videographer, Rob Brock, walks you through some of the cool new features from our recent EngagementHQ Update.
10 Ways Participatory Budgeting has been used Around the World
Around the world, hundreds of governments are opting to open up their budgetary conversation to the community, inviting them to have their say on how money should be prioritised for new investments choices, services and projects. Participatory budgeting (or PB as it’s known in casual circles) is a democratic process where community members get the [...]
Participatory Budgeting in the Four Corners of the Western World (Part One: North America)
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each is presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB that is being undertaken in the Western World. North America’s First Municipal Participatory Budgeting Scheme Kicks Off Chicago’s 49th Ward In 2009, residents of the diverse 49th Ward of Chicago collaborated to determine how best [...]
Participatory Budgeting in the Four Corners of the Western World (Part Two:Canada)
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each is presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Participatory Budgeting in Public Housing Delivers Trust, Empowerment and New Stoves! Toronto Community Housing: Tenant Participation System Since 2001, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) has used a participatory [...]
Participatory Budgeting in the Four Corners of the Western World (Part Three: UK)
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Hard to Reach Kids Leap and Learn in Participatory Budget Scheme The Children’s Fund, Newcastle In 2008, the UK’s Newcastle City Council launched a participatory budgeting process in which 450 [...]
Participatory Budgeting in the Four Corners of the Western World (Part Four: Germany)
We’ve uploaded four participatory budgeting case studies to our blog. Each presents a contemporary and comprehensive approach to PB being undertaken in the Western World. Hamburg Citizens Carve a Piece of Online PB Pie Hamburg’s Participatory Budgeting Scheme In Hamburg, participatory budgeting was introduced in 2006 by city politician Rüdiger Kruse, Christian Democratic Party spokesman [...]
Chain Valley Mine Welcomes Community Sentiment
Chain Valley is located in the Newcastle coalfield on the southern shore of Lake Macquarie, around 100 kilometres north of Sydney. Mining commenced in 1961, and the mine currently produces around 700,000 saleable tonnes of thermal coal. In May 2009, LakeCoal Pty Ltd applied to consolidate and replace existing approvals for the mine. If approved, the [...]