About Citizen Space
Designed for government by government
Citizen Space has been developed as a collaborative project between the UK Government and digital democracy company Delib, and has been designed to help government departments to run their consultation processes more efficiently and effectively.
Cloud-based
Citizen Space has been developed as a cloud-based consultation and engagement platform, enabling government departments and the wider digital democracy community to build on the foundations that have been developed, leveraging efficiencies by sharing development costs and benefits.
Co-design has been at the heart of the Citizen Space project, with government departments involved at each stage of Citizen Space's development.
Our vision of 'government as a participative platform'
When we were developing the Citizen Space concept, we didn’t so much see it as a piece of software but more as a platform on top of which government departments and the developer community could develop and innovate.
If you’re thinking about creating a Citizen Space for your organisation, we think you should look at it as the first step in a journey in helping turn government into a participative platform, where citizens collaborate with government to improve government and wider society
To find out more about our concept of 'government as a participative platform', read our presentation below:
Government as a participative platformCheck out more Delib thinking and doing on the blog.
Key objectives
Key objectives that Citizen Space has been designed to address include:
- Manage and organise multiple consultations across multiple policy teams
- Share consultation information openly in a structured way
- Make it easy to create online consultations on complex policy documents
- Provide a way to easily analyse consultation data (both qualitative and quantitative)
- Provide a central space to manage/track responses- whether it's online responses or postal responses
