Consul Democracy- Citizen participation Tool

[seeker]

Had not run into this before and figured I would share it here. Looks like it is actively developed. There are links to communities using the various features. I like the idea of multitenecy. It sounds like you can roll out the tools for multiple groups/communities.

From their website:

...complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.
The CONSUL DEMOCRACY software is free to use and modify.

https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy

Debates

Open up spaces for debate and discussion among citizens, invite opinions and ideas and pave the way for informed decision-making.

Citizen proposals

Invite citizen proposals for the next strategic city plan or policy-making cycle, stimulate debate and see which enjoy the most support.

See what the inhabitants of Groningen in the Netherlands are proposing for their neighbourhoods
Citizen Proposals user guide

Voting polls

Successfully collected proposals or ideas? Wrap up the participatory process by letting the most vibrant topics go to a vote.

Participatory Budgeting

Create a direct democratic process around spending (a part of) the government’s budget next year and guide the process in a transparent way.

Collaborative Legislation

Empower citizens by collaboratively drafting legislation, project plans or any other texts that will affect their lives.

Special features
Sustainable Development Goals

Make the Sustainable Development Goals central to the citizen participation process by using our special SDG feature.

Multi-tenancy

Create two or more different participation projects using the same installation with the multi-tenancy feature.

[jdaviescoates]

We badly need tools like this to be widely available for use by local authorities everywhere.

[jdaviescoates]

Here is the installer https://github.com/consuldemocracy/installer