“[OpenGov] fits perfectly within our larger engagement strategy, as it allows us to directly involve our community in decision-making processes early and often.”
Brian Cary, Communications Coordinator
City of San Carlos, CA
REPORTING AND TRANSPARENCY
Open Town Hall
Get your community involved
Supplement public hearings with surveys, forums, and online meetings.
Increase civic participation
Make participation in government more convenient with online citizen engagement that fits into modern lifestyles.
Understand all sides of an issue
Gain a better understanding of public opinion by filtering out undue influence of those with narrow agendas.
Make better budgeting decisions
Allocate resources more effectively and align your priorities with your community by incorporating public feedback into your budget.
Tap into a growing network
Leverage the Open Town Hall knowledge base to see how other agencies engage citizens, then analyze results across the OpenGov Network™ to put your insights in context.
ONLINE FORUMS
Encourage involvement
Public engagement is the hallmark of great governance, and public hearings are a mainstay of engagement with government. Leverage the leading online citizen engagement platform to improve civic participation, and make your constituents feel heard. Give seniors, working parents, and busy millennials the opportunity to share their opinion on their own time through multiple, convenient channels of engagement.
Track budgeted and actual spending like Allegheny County, PA.
ANALYZE RESULTS
Easily understand feedback
Analyze results to gain insights quickly.
Powerful analytics are built into OpenGov to help you understand results quickly. Easily understand demographics, geography, frequency of participation, and compare with financial and performance data across the OpenGov Network™.
FEEDBACK
Reduce intimidation and undue influence
OpenGov encourages registration and provides residents with choices for how they share their identity. Comprehensive civility monitoring maintains a high level of discourse on the public forum, and reduces intimidation and fraud by motivated individuals with narrow agendas.
Easily filter out distortions.
Mobile meetings
Enable residents to participate face-to-face, remotely, or on the go.
Communicate with maps
Easily show residents how issues affect their own neighborhoods.
Tap a growing knowledge base
Browse a library of thousands of online topics to leverage the experience of communities facing similar issues.
Reporting and Transparency Capabilities In Depth
Management Reporting
Make data-driven decisions, find answers faster, and track progress towards strategic goals.
Transparency and Interactive Stories
Add valuable context with interactive web pages that feature dynamic data tiles, images, videos, text, and more.
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