Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games
Obviously it is not participatory budgeting, but this rather short list that I have compiled provides an idea of the variety of online initiatives type budget simulators / games. This might be useful to some of those interested in the use of ICTs in Participatory Budgeting experiences.
If you know of other similar initiatives please let me know.
(originally posted in Facebook's Participatory Budgeting group)
FloodSim
The Maryland Budget Game
http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/budgetmap.html
Hamburg (Germany)
http://www.buergerhaushalt-hamburg.de/
Federal Budget Challenge
http://www.concordcoalition.org/learn/educators/online-version-principles-and-priorities-budget-game
Colorado Backseat Budgeter
http://www.backseatbudgeter.com/
Waverley Council Budget Allocator:
http://waverley.budgetallocator.com/
Budget Simulator:
http://www.budgetsimulator.com/
California Budget Challenge
http://www.next10.org/budget/challenge.html
Cyber-Budget (France)
Minnesota Budget Balancer
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2007/03/budget_balancer/
Kansas T-Link Calculator
http://www.kansastlink.com/calculator/
M assachussets Budget Game
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/budget_game/
Spending Public Money
http://citizensnetwork.accenture.com/SpendingPublicMoney/
Budget Hero:
http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/budget/
Montgomery County Budget Game (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/montgomery-budget/
Budget Explorer:
http://www.kowaldesign.com/budget/index.html
The New York City Budget Game
http://www.gothamgazette.com/budgetgame/budgetgame.html
The Guardian Budget Game
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Budget_Game/0,4263,675654,00.html
Stateman’s Budget Game
http://www.statesman.com/insight/content/norails/budget_game
National Budget Simulation
http://www.nathannewman.org/nbs/longbudget06.html
Council for Economic Education Budget Simulation
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM306&page=teacher
Cumbria County Council Budget Simulator
City of Austin FY2010 Budget Simulation Exercise
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Comments
Great list, as always. When you get a chance, could you expand on what you think makes each of these simulators/games stand out (e.g. innovative features or anything else worth noting)? Thanks!
posted about 1 year ago
Thanks Tim! Will do it asap, and link it to the "serendipity" idea.
posted about 1 year ago
Nice work. It would be good to annotate the list and add a few references for each simulation.
posted 5 months ago