Overview
Go Vocal provides a platform for governments to engage residents on communications, planning, neighborhoods, public safety, and sustainability initiatives. The platform captures feedback online and offline, streamlines engagement workflows, and includes features such as surveys, ideation, mapping, participatory budgeting, voting, and community monitoring.
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In the news
- The number of people who participate tells only part of the story. What matters just as much is who those people are, whose voices might be missing, and what we can learn from the ideas they bring to the table. Because behind every participation statistic are residents with experiences, concerns, and perspectives that can help shape better decisions. 🎬 In the final episode of From the Mayor's Seat, former Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace reflects on why meaningful community engagement goes beyond participation numbers, and why both
- What if your 2027 engagement calendar started with a plan, not a blank page? 📅 As local governments prepare for the year ahead, one question matters: where can community engagement make the biggest difference? In our latest newsletter, we're sharing three resources to help you plan with more confidence: 📊 Insights from 35,000 engagement projects: Discover what residents actually show up for, where participation is growing, and what you can learn from the data in our upcoming webinar. 🗓️ A free Participation Planner: Turn
- Roughly 1 in 5 resident ideas posted on Go Vocal platforms this year were written with AI. What does this mean for participation? A survey of Dutch and Flemish municipalities found a wave of AI-written objection letters. Longer, more legal, sometimes citing laws that don't exist. That made me wonder: is the same thing happening on citizen engagement platforms? So we looked at our own data, across a few hundred government platforms in a dozen languages. Roughly 1 in 5 resident ideas posted in 2026 is written with AI. Two things stood
- Last week I had the honor of curating the content for the FinTech session during the Flanders Technology & Innovation Festival, organised by the amazing team at GLUON BXL. A special thanks to all the speakers Claire Munck (BeAngels), Stijn (Stan) Christiaens (Collibra), Aline Muylaert (Go Vocal), Michael V. (Monizze), Quentin Colmant (Qover), Muriel Bernard (BeCentral), Pepijn Mores (Prismos), Charles Van den Bogaert (iBanFirst), Louis Vanheurck de Tornaco (dups), minister Laurent Hublet (Government of the Brussels-Capital Region),
- What's the fastest way to lose residents' trust in community engagement? Asking for their input on a decision that's already been made. In part 4 of From the Mayor's Seat, former Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace shares how her city went from running its first engagement projects to making participation a regular part of how local government works. 👂 Her advice? Start small. Choose a project where residents can genuinely shape the outcome, deliver on it, and use that experience to build a process you can repeat. Because good community
- How does your community engagement compare to what other governments are doing? 📊 We analyzed 35,000 engagement projects to find out what residents actually participate in, which topics are gaining momentum, and how engagement differs across governments. And we're sharing what we learned! 📅 On November 17, our CEO Wietse Van Ransbeeck will walk through the findings in a free webinar, sharing practical benchmarks to help you understand where you stand and plan your community engagement for 2027. We'll explore which topics attract
- Going international is one thing. Building a real presence in a new market is another. 🌍 Our co-founder Aline Muylaert spoke with Start it Accelerate | @KBC about Go Vocal's journey from Belgium to the US, and what we've learned along the way. From choosing which states to focus on to building relationships with our first US cities, it's been a journey full of lessons! Thanks to Start it X for featuring our story alongside Conveo. 👇 Read the full article! https://lnkd.in/emUTrnnD
- The US isn't one market. You need a strategy around specific states." Aline Muylaert, co-founder of Go Vocal More and more Belgian startups are setting their sights on the US. A huge market, deep budgets, and customers who sometimes find you before you find them. But what does it really take? 🇺🇸 Go Vocal thought international from day one. Belgium was too small for its niche, so the Netherlands, France and the UK came first, all served from Brussels. The US came later, through inbound demand during Covid. Turning that into
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