Engage4change is the home of civic or citizen engagement campaigns brought to you by Ideavibes - makers of the Crowd Engagement Platform.
In April, we ran our first self-initiated campaign for the City of San Francisco in conjunction with our participation at Web2.0 and in time with the upcoming civic elections.
How It Worked
Ideavibes™ offers the first Crowd Engagement Platform™ to help organizations tap into the wisdom of the crowd to build better products, engage citizens, or fund the change they want to see. The Platform is also the first to give organizations the power to create crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaigns from a single, easy to use control panel.
- We rolled out the challenge and promoted through traditional and social media
- Over 2400 people visited engage4change.com and took the following actions:
- they voted or commented on an existing idea
- they posted their own idea
- they shared their own or other ideas through social media at a click of a button
- Participated garnered a reward - an ice cream coupon from Humphry Slocombe
- Results were released and shared with the media, mayor's office, mayoral candidates, etc.
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Engage4change Results (May, 2011)
Read the press release to see who won.
Crowdsourced Housing Ideas:
- Create mixed-market and subsidized and live/work housing in the same developments
- Rehabilitate abandoned and run-down city properties into mixed affordable and market housing
- Activity Calendar for the Homeless
- Emergency housing options for homeless
Crowdsourced Transit Ideas:
- Transit passes for students to develop a new generation of transit-friendly citizens
- Longer BART hours
- Commuter cyclist facilities (showers, storage, etc.) in the workplace
- Step up Muni Fare enforcement
- Muni Passes for Car Owners
- Bike and walking trail improvements including adding to the Bay Bridge
- Bike share city wide
- Clipper Card App for smartphones
- Dedicated MUNI lanes
- Buy One Get One Free Mass Transit Passes for tourists
- Transit Message Board
- More buses running on faster schedules
