Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games

Posting written by Tiago Peixoto about 1 year ago.
Last comment 5 months ago, 3 Comments.

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

http://www.floodsim.com/

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)

http://www.cyber-budget.fr/

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

http://bit.ly/2BYoU

City of Austin FY2010 Budget Simulation Exercise

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/budget2010/index.cfm

Comments

Tim_profile_500_zoom3_medium Tim Bonnemann

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

Bw_medium Tiago Peixoto

Thanks Tim! Will do it asap, and link it to the "serendipity" idea. 

posted about 1 year ago

Default_avatar_medium SHIRSH

Nice work.  It would be good to annotate the list and add a few references for each simulation.

posted 5 months ago

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