City of Altoona Adopts Innovative Public Engagement Platform Diversifying Engagement Through New Technology
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Joshua Clements | Altoona City Planner
The City of Altoona is excited to announce the launch of Polco, an innovative engagement platform where residents can directly influence the community decision-making process. The City will be using Polco during the Chippewa Valley Future Regions project, in which communities across the region will be employing strategic foresight to predict and respond to future trends as the region focuses on the creative economy.
Through new insights using Polco's civic analytics website and apps, elected officials will post questions directly to residents and receive insightful, reliable data to drive local policy decisions. By increasing civic engagement through web-based polling, there is an opportunity to meet Altoona residents where they are and collectively move policy forward. The City values community knowledge and is committed to improving communication channels to impact change. The City of Altoona is dedicated to sharing polling results and explanations of policy decisions made through the duration of the Chippewa Valley Future Regions project based on this new mode of participation.
Residents become active users by visiting https://polco.us/ and creating an account. Polco's platform is available via web, mobile, email, and any place Polco e-ballots are found online. This service is free to all constituents.
Polco is committed to a strict privacy policy where they only share aggregated de-identified results. Participant detailed data and votes are never shared.
About Polco: Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents' input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy. For more information about Polco, please visit https://polco.us/.
If you have any questions, please contact Altoona City Hall at cityhall@ci.altoona.wi.us or 715-839-6092. |
