GetInvolved online consultation toolkit
About GetInvolved
GetInvolved is a suite of consultation tools designed to engage with the community on matters of public policy. The toolkit is comprised of online forum, poll, survey and other consultation tools which suit a range of engagement methods. The toolkit can be used in conjunction with social media and provides a trusted mechanism to capture the opinions of the community combined with real time data analysis.
Unlike some other online services you might consider, GetInvolved complies with government policy and legislation; privacy, security, accessibility and right to information are all built in. GetInvolved is based on agency needs, customer feedback and extensive user research, but your ideas for improvement are always welcome.
GetInvolved is part of the Queensland Government's committment to online community engagement.
What can the toolkit do?
The tools and their features include:
Consultation dashboard
- An easy to use interface with all the consultation tools at your fingertips
- Schedule the publication of different content when the consultation is opened, closed and decided.
- Promote you consultation through social media
- Link to your discussion papers and other reference material
- Provide for hard copy submissions using your template
- Display your contact details to build trust
- Integrate with other consultation methods
- Export participant contact details
- Spam protection
Online survey
- Variety of pre-defined question types and response options
- Customise questions to a demographic
- Published and unpublished responses
- Moderate responses before or after publication
- Access online reports 24/7
- View each response individually or summarised together
- Export data immediately and at regular intervals(CSV)
- Enter test data before go live, and phone/postal submissions after go live.
- As a respondent, start your response now, finish it later, and
- Download a copy of your response for your records
Forum
- Efficiently have a conversation with hundreds of people at once.
- Monitor and moderate offensive content
- Divide a conversation into multiple topics
- Allow users to create their own topics
- Drill down into a topic to help understand the issues
- Build consensus around a topic
Poll
- Enable quick feedback for time-poor participants
- Allow users to choose one or multiple responses to a question
- View the results at a glance and download the data
Benefits to using the toolkit
As a Government employee, with departmental authority, you can:
- Create your consultation page in minutes
- Poll the community to quickly gauge their opinions
- Customise a survey to an audience group and control how responses are published
- Have a one-to-many conversation through an online forum
- Promote your consultation through social media and content syndication
- Track responses coming in and report on the data immediately.
The community can:
- have their say on government policy in a secure environment
- respond to an online survey and have their views published
- see different opinions about government policy
- discuss issues with the government in real time on a range of topics
- quickly provide their opinion through polls and see the results immediately
- subscribe to be kept informed about consultation opportunities.
GetInvolved is locally hosted and supported with quality assurance and training provided by Smart Service Queensland.
Find out more
Contact us to see how GetInvolved can meet your online consultation needs.
