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Ethelo Democracy Society

Ethelo Democracy Society provides digital democracy and collective decision-making technology. Its platform helps governments, organizations, communities, and DAOs reach fair, consensus-supported decisions on complex issues.
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Ethelo-Allo Integration


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Ethelo is a digital democracy platform that helps groups find fair solutions with broad support by using a sophisticated algorithm and social media interface to facilitate participatory decision-making.


Carbon Budget


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Carbon Budget is an Ethelo-powered public consultation focused on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 129,500 tons. It addresses emissions from buildings, vehicles, consumption, and waste, with participants evaluating and prioritizing mitigation measures and related funding policies. The decision is closed and no longer accepting entries.

Category: Impact Initiative

Criteria Selection


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Criteria Selection helps groups establish criteria weightings for evaluating bids and assess bids against those criteria through a social voting process involving participant votes, comments, and survey responses. It is powered by Ethelo.

Category: Uncategorized

Budget Prioritization


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Budget Prioritization is an online public consultation for a School Board’s budget development process. It invites constituents to share perspectives on budget priorities and educational funding, with participation intended to support the Board of Education’s decision-making.

Category: Impact Initiative

Bid Evaluation


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Bid Evaluation enables participants to assess competing bids against criteria with fixed weights. Ethelo aggregates the evaluations, generates a score for each bidder, and provides a ranked list to support collective decision-making.

Category: Uncategorized

Service Design


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Service Design is an Ethelo-powered social voting and consultation process in which young people, parents, educators, mental health professionals, and others provide input on programs and initiatives. The process seeks broadly supported improvements subject to financial, human-resource, and implementation-time constraints.

Category: Customer Engagement Platform

Citizen Budget


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Citizen Budget enables public participation in municipal budget planning before final adoption by City Council. Residents can review where tax dollars are spent, increase or reduce spending in various categories, make trade-offs, and submit feedback on how taxes should be spent.

Category: Impact Initiative

Ethelo


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Ethelo, provided by Ethelo Decisions Inc., coordinates a criteria-based participatory grantmaking process. Judges assess nonprofit applicants against criteria including root-cause impact, replicability, sustainability, secured co-funding, and collaboration, then review collective rankings and grant-allocation results for a $300,000 funding pool.

Category: Grants Platform

Seed-Based Quadratic Voting


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Seed-Based Quadratic Voting is an Ethelo-powered grant allocation project based on a Big Green DAO example. Participants receive 102 seeds to distribute among 102 applicant organizations using high, wide, or mixed allocation strategies. The community allocates $400,000 in grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000, based on each organization's seed tokens and number of unique votes; organizations below the $10,000 threshold receive no funding.

Category: Grants Platform

Official Community Plan


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The Official Community Plan consultation enables local residents to provide feedback, comments, suggestions, and survey responses on proposed updates covering topics such as vision and goals, housing, land use, infrastructure, climate change, the environment, economic development, culture, and social well-being. City planners use the collected input to revise proposed amendments before a second stage of consultation and final review on Ethelo.

Category: Impact Initiative