Community Engagement platform for Cities and Counties

OpenConsult has been used by Counties and Cities since 2014 for all types of engagements. It captures text and map-based submission data that powers flexible reporting dashboards for you and your stakeholders. This new approach enables communities & cities/counties to benefit from the collective knowledge of citizens.

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Smart, open engagement

OpenConsult provides you maximum flexibility to open your data and conversations around your engagements. Harness the collective knowledge of your stakeholders for deeper engagement and richer insights.

Interactive Documents

Why publish a large PDF, when you can create an interactive document? With OpenConsult you can create a user and mobile friendly version. This ensures everyone can access the document on the fly, on the bus, including users with visual impairment. Maps and images can be displayed also accessibly through a viewer.

Surveys

Our survey creator guides to you to set up your survey

  • Add all question types tables, text, grids, matrices etc
  • Add images, videos and interactive maps
  • Find consensus on options using the Modified Borda Count method Run dynamic reports

Moderated User Forum

Users can engage visually with image, videos and maps and participate in a conversation with others. Users can drop pins at the location to which their comments refer.

See how some of our customers use our Open Consult platform

Residential Zoned Land Tax

Open Consult was used by 16 local authorities to present their consultations on the Residential Zoned Land Tax in 2022. Citizens could easily click on interactive maps to identify land liable to RZLT and then make their submission by responding to a series of questions. Colour coded map layers showed Residential and Mixed-use land and different views of the zoned lands could be shown using map layers.

Town Renewal Plan

Galway County Council engaged residents on Town Centre Masterplan proposals using CiviQ’s visual NoteDrop feature. Residents could view images and map-based slides of proposals for the town. They could give feedback by making comment in a window next to each slide, creating a transparent conversation around the proposals.

Climate Action Plan

Local Authorities around the country used CiviQ’s Open Consult platform to engage with the public on their Climate Actions Plans. Whether it is requesting online open comment-based submissions as in Waterford, Sligo and Limerick, or questions accompanying the engagement as in Kerry’s example, or Galway’s survey-based engagement for their Climate Action,