Participation
Participation is not a hearing at the end of the process. It is a design decision taken early: who gets to speak, about what, and with what weight?
Digitization does not just mean the use of digital technologies, but rather new forms of collaboration, organization and value creation. For this purpose, I advise and accompany organizations in the development process.
Citizen participation
Dare new ways of citizen participation! I support you in finding suitable communication and participation processes and implementing them technically, in terms of content and organization. I help municipalities, states, and civil society actors to professionally select and execute digital events and show what a new culture of participation can look like.
Thinking online and offline together
The smart use of technologies means a suitable mix of online-only, offline, hybrid formats. Depending on what makes the most sense and works best for your goals.
- Conception
- Event consulting
- Process design
- Process moderation
- White / Green Paper
The ValuesLab - Digital Ethics
Develop their own responses to the ethical ambiguities in digital product and service development. The Value Lab supports you in designing digital products and services in a value-sensitive way. Together with my colleague Dr. Saskia Dörr, I offer you an orientation framework and a set of methods for value-based digital design in an innovative subject area between business and society. You develop your solution space co-creatively.
As a result, you will receive an action set to consider value-driven digital design of products “from the beginning”. I offer various workshops for this purpose.
Target groups: Professionals who want to systematically deal with an ethical ambivalence present in practice in digital product and service design and who want to expand their methodological competence in the process. E.g. designers, developers, product managers, project managers, decision-makers, managing directors, technical or departmental managers and sustainability or CR managers. No prior IT or ethics knowledge is necessary to participate.
Further information can be found at wertelabor.de
Consulting
Whitepaper Workshops Process design
Digital citizen participation
Thinking online and offline together & daring new citizen participation. My team of experts from the fields of urban development, sustainability, information technologies, organizational development and policy consulting will support you in finding suitable and up-to-date procedures and implementing them in a meaningful way. I support civil society, local authorities and federal states in the selection and professional implementation of digital events and show what a new culture of participation can look like.
Further information can be found at digitale-buergerbeteiligung.de
What you get
Decisions that hold
What is carried lasts longer.
Early feedback
Objections arrive while they are still cheap.
Access to knowledge
Participants know things that appear in no file.
No fig leaf
Meet the requirements and actually learn something.
Process
- 1
Clarify
What is genuinely negotiable? Sham questions do more harm than good.
- 2
Tailor
Format, audience, reach, effort.
- 3
Run
Moderated, documented, traceable.
- 4
Report back
What became of the contributions? This step decides about the next round.
What this costs
Billed by person-day, as a senior consultant. I will tell you the day rate in our first conversation, together with an estimate of how many days your project needs. Both binding, before you decide.
Small pieces of work I bill at a fixed price where the scope can be drawn clearly. I will tell you which of the two comes out cheaper.
Related services
Participation needs something tangible
A prototype makes abstract plans discussable, especially for people who do not read planning documents.