Build a Participatory Budgeting Decision Tool for a City Government
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a participatory budgeting tool for a city government, test it with residents, and earn your verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The Barcelona council allocates around EUR 30 million annually through participatory budgeting and is looking for a digital tool that increases informed participation, currently dominated by the loudest community-association voices.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Ship a participatory budgeting decision tool that lets residents see real trade-offs and the council audit deliberation outcomes.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design participatory tools that surface trade-offs without intimidating non-experts
- Formulate portfolio selection under a budget constraint and present alternatives
- Run usability tests with civic, non-expert participants
- Write rollout proposals for public-sector partners
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis
Master · Applied Ai
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Participatory Decision Making
Apply participatory decision making to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Decision Support Systems
Apply decision support systems to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Portfolio Optimization
Apply portfolio optimization to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Testing
Apply user testing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Streamlit
Apply streamlit to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Civic Design
Apply civic design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Product Designer
Designing decision tools for non-expert civic audiences is a niche but valuable AI product designer specialization in govtech and edtech.
This challenge sharpens
- participatory-decision-making
- user-testing
- civic-design
AI Product Manager
Scoping civic-tech pilots and writing public-sector rollout proposals is a recurring AI PM responsibility in govtech.
This challenge sharpens
- decision-support-systems
- participatory-decision-making
- civic-design
AI Solutions Architect
Stitching participatory tooling, audit trails, and portfolio optimization into one product is solutions-architect territory.
This challenge sharpens
- decision-support-systems
- portfolio-optimization
- streamlit