In the countdown to the OGP2012 forum in Brasilia, Tiago Peixoto from the World Bank Institute’s ICT4Gov program discusses the value, opportunities and challenges of participatory budgeting, offering some advice on making sure a PB program starts off on the right track:
A successful participatory budgeting program is one that delivers what has been decided… It is very fashionable right now to use technology to engage with citizens, but you’re not able or willing to respond to citizens, then don’t engage with them.
Tiago also emphasises the escalating impact of mobile technologies to enable a more inclusive participatory budgeting program:
One of the things that you see is… the power of using mobile phones for citizen participation…We’ve been in areas where citizens walk further to charge their mobile phones than they walk to get water!
About Tiago Peixoto
Tiago Peixoto is an Open Government specialist in the ICT4Gov program of the World Bank Institute. Having worked for 10 years as a practitioner and researcher in the field of ICT and participatory governance, Tiago is currently an open government specialist at the ICT4Gov program of WBI’s Open Government cluster. Prior to joining the Bank, Tiago has managed projects and worked as an advisor and consultant for various organizations in the field of participation and technology, such as the European Commission, OECD, the United Nations, and the Brazilian and UK governments. He is also research coordinator of the Electronic Democracy Centre, a joint venture of the European University Institute, the University of Zurich and the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford.
About the World Bank Institute
The World Bank Institute (WBI) is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. It is part of the World Bank Group, and connects practitioners, networks and institutions to help them find solutions to their development challenges.
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- World Bank Institute
- Project overview of Participatory budgeting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Recent Participatory Budgeting conference in New York
- Participatory Budgeting Facebook Group
- Non-exhaustive map of Participatory Budgeting Cases Around the World. Markers in red indicate cases of e-participatory budgeting (ICT facilitated)
- Article on mobile phones and Participatory Budgeting
- Mobile Participatory Budgeting in South-Kivu
- La Plata Multi-Channel Participatory Budgeting including PDF Case study
- Belo Horizonte’s (Brazil) e-Participatory Budgeting (PDF)
- ICT facilitated Participatory Budgeting in the DR Congo
- Brief report of NYC Participatory Budgeting Process, prepared by the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center (PDF)
- World Bank / Open Government Partnership webinar on “ICT for Citizen Engagement”
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Participatory budgeting project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Participatory Budgeting and CrossVoice
Mobile Participatory Budgeting in South Kivu
La Plata (Argentina) Multi-Channel Participatory Budgeting
Belo Horizonte Participatory Budgeting
Recife Participatory Budgeting
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