Blog over maatschappelijke betrokkenheid

A PPGIS study on the Faroe Islands explores economic, social, and environmental conflicts brought around by global industries such as fish farming and tourism.

Maarit Kahila of Maptionnaire and Johanna Palomäki of Lahti joined Smart in The City Podcast. Learn more about what community engagement in a smart city is like!

A community needs assessment helps you identify problems and service gaps in a community. Grab these tips on assessment steps and tools, as well as a few examples.

ArcticHubs aims at co-creating successful policies around resource use. Maptionnaire’s PPGIS solution is used in the project as a data collection and stakeholder engagement tool.

Read about the principles of designing community engagement survey questions for getting excellent data and high response rates.

Maptionnairen aamiaistapahtuma kokosi yhteen kaupunkisuunnittelun ja -tutkimuksen ammattilaisia keskustelemaan asukasosallisuudesta.

Find out about the best practices for making GDPR compliant surveys. Here are tips on how to structure your questionnaire and what you should do as a survey-owner.

What are the types of community engagement? Learn about informative, preparatory, and decision-making participation — examples of engagement projects inside.

Explore the pros and cons of self-made, open-source, and proprietary SaaS community engagement platforms to make an informed choice.

A community engagement platform is software that enables you to run public participation processes. Follow our guide on choosing one!

Struggling with getting stakeholders on board (who doesn't, right)? Grab these 6 winning methods for stakeholder engagement with surveys.

Learn from these five participatory budgeting examples from all around the globe: Porto Alegre, Espoo, Chicago, Lahti, and Warsaw.

Participatory budgeting is a process where the public directly decides on how a budget is spent. Read how PB helps you involve residents in shaping their cities.

Read Maarit Kahila's take on representative democracy and the role of technology in it. Maarit is CEO and co-founder of Maptionniare Community Engagement Platform.

To celebrate Maptionnaire’s 10th anniversary, we asked our staff ten questions. Read Gaurab’s Q&A!