DemocracyOS is a text-based platform that helps more members of the public ensure their voice and ideas are heard.
Text us your input
After signing up, you’ll receive questions related to city issues (no more than 4 per month). Just respond to share your thoughts. Or text us anytime with input or ideas on any issue.
We turn it into smart reports for the city to digest
We use a process that world’s best pollsters use to help us ensure all perspectives in the community are heard — across demographics like age, gender, race, orientation, etc…
We then compile reports for city leaders that help them understand how the public is feeling, and their ideas they have.
We remember your ideas and opinions, so that it can have more impact over time
We also keep this information in our system, making it possible for city leaders to understand, for example, if the public’s frustration on an issue is growing or declining over time. It also allows us to remember good ideas. So for example, lets say you and several others have an idea about a bike lane on certain street, but the city is not investing any money at the moment on bike infrastructure because they are at capacity on projects. Nine months later, they start planning bike lane upgrades. Your ideas are still accessible to them and can inform their thinking, even many months or even years later, whereas typical public input like a public comment session or email would likely be quickly forgotten.
Our hope is to create a system that is very easy to use for every member of the public, and to be smarter about how we share and connect that input to maximize the impact it has on city leaders, and ultimately help ensure the needs of the community are met by the city more often.