CrownShy

Comhairle

Accelerate and scale public participation in policy decision-making.

Why Choose Comhairle?

Comhairle makes it easy for policymakers to design and execute flexible participation workflows.

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Comhairle incorporates the best open-source tools available.

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Empowers facilitators to engage with their audiences more easily.

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Enables participants to engage meaningfully in the policy-making process.

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Easily procure tools to enhance consultation efforts.

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Gives direct access to consultation data and provides powerful analysis.

How It Works

Find workflows

Choose Workflows

Pick an existing workflow, duplicate a past one, or create a new one.

Create conversation

Design Steps

Design the content, order and number of steps that suits the consultation objectives.

Your conversations

Pick suitable tools

Use default tools or customise to more suitable ones to ensure an efficient and engaging process.

Your conversations

Launch

Launch the consultation and share with relevant audiences.

Input to conversations

Collect inputs

Collect inputs of a given topic through step by step participation flow.

Input to conversations

Engagement management

Facilitate conversations, nudge input, provide guidance as conversation goes.

What Our Users Say

"We know trust in government is affected by how well we listen to people and act on what they say, working with CrownShy on the Comhairle platform helps us to shape some of those early conversations that matter in ways that mean policies are more effective"

— Doreen Grove, Head of Open Government, Scottish Government

"Quality participation has told us the Scottish public want to be included in weighing specific reuse of data and applications of AI across public services. Thanks to CrownShy’s wealth of experience in civic tech and deliberative democracy, Comhairle promises a path to using quality participation across the full diversity of our public’s needs."

— Tom Wilkinson, Chief Data Officer, Scottish Government

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