Peoples Budget Texas

Peoples Budget Texas Peoples Budget Texas, a participatory budgeting process, is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend public budget.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB gives ordinary people real decision-making power over real money. The process was first developed in Brazil in 1989, and there are now over 1,500 participatory budgets around the world, most at the municipal level.

12/31/2022

Year-end poem 🎇

03/29/2022

Morrisville, North Carolina used GIS to build a digital twin to help community stakeholders visualize different development scenarios for the town center.

02/23/2022

Communities In Schools will work with college students who have left school in a partnership with Palo Alto College aiming to re-enroll them.

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has recently published a framework for the future of   (PB) in Scot...
02/01/2022

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has recently published a framework for the future of (PB) in Scotland

The Strategic Group recommend the following overarching definition of PB: “participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens decide directly how to spend part of a public budget.

01/28/2022

Don’t colonize our future

12/24/2021

The US once helped destroy Chilean democracy. Now, a constitutional reform movement in Chile could teach the US how to fix its own

12/03/2021

Fast Travel Games has today announced a VR version of Paradox Interactive’s Cities: Skylines. Aptly titled Cities VR, the port is exclusively for Oculus’ Quest 2 headset. “Cities: Skylines is the ultimate modern city-builder, and it’s an honor to bring this franchise to VR,” said Erik Odel...

09/19/2021

Protests, citizens’ assemblies, local referendums and mutual aid groups are pushing back against attacks on civil society, says author Richard Youngs

08/18/2021

Women of color are not only reforming the existing broken and discriminatory practices in our democracy, they are also entrepreneurs who are building and growing new institutions that, if effectively resourced, can help us realize a truly multi-racial democracy.

07/08/2021

Participatory budgeting is an experiment in grassroots democracy that gives citizens partial control of where their taxpayer dollars are allocated. Here's an...

03/25/2021

The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog

02/28/2021

When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million dollars a year on urban improvements, there was skepticism – not just from officials, but from youth who assumed they’d be ignored. The results surprised everyone

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