ChangeByUS is a website to share ideas with others living in your city, gather resources and launch projects. ChangeByUS helps to make the city even more enjoyable to live in, because people can collaborate with each other on projects.
ChangeByUS is a website to share ideas with others living in your city, gather resources and launch projects. ChangeByUS helps to make the city even more enjoyable to live in, because people can collaborate with each other on projects. It is an open source platform that has been developed in New York, USA. This application also has the ability to be used in Europe by different cities.
Change By Us Amsterdam is part of the last Code for Europe call in the summer of 2014. The platform is was made possible by the City of Amsterdam in collaboration with local organizations as de Waag, Eigenwijks, Voorjebuurt and Amsterdam Smart Cities. The online platform officially launched on December 2015.
- Facilitate the process from idea to feasible project digitally
- Support enthusiasm in neighborhoods for activities projects
- Visibility of ideas and activities that (will) take place in the city
- Visibility of whom are committed to one or more projects
- Visibility of the active citizens in the city
- An alternative method of allocation / pitching for budget of larger institutions
- Connection with the changing role of the government supporting more bottom-up initiatives.
The most notable form of interaction is placing ideas on the website. The biggest challenge is to achieve long lasting collaborations on the website. According to google analytics we have about 100 sessions a month.
- A simple way to collaborate on local initiatives in cities.
- More visibility of local initiatives.