CitizenLab / Go Vocal Representativeness Dashboard
Belgian civic-engagement SaaS used by cities across Europe to run consultations, ideation, participatory budgeting. The Representativeness Dashboard compares each participating cohort's demographics (age, gender, neighbourhood, education) against the underlying ward/postcode-level population so cities can see which neighbourhoods are over- or under-represented in real time, and target outreach.
Dashboard quantifies participation by neighbourhood/postcode and surfaces the gap vs population. Brussels' commissioner.citizenlab.co instance breaks results down by district, naturally exposing inter-area participation rate as a comparable metric. Cities publicly report which neighbourhoods are 'leading' or 'lagging'.
Each neighbourhood needs collective resident sign-on to look representative - one champion can't move the needle. CitizenLab pairs dashboards with offline outreach playbooks (workshops, door-knocking) that necessitate local team coordination.
Frames the inter-area metric as 'representativeness gap' rather than raw competition - a healthier framing than leaderboards alone, and a useful nuance for BelongHub. Shows European municipal demand for hyperlocal comparison.
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