Flanders crowdsourced a rural-policy pact without drowning in workshop notes

“By noon we had a clean, dembrane transcript of every table. Within hours, we have a draft proposal ready.” - Stephanie van Opstal, Policy Advisor
Date
1 apr 2025
Context
Governance, Agriculture, Citizen Assembly, Focus Groups
Participants
200 Rural stakeholders
Benefits
10x cheaper | 14x faster | 8x coverage

With Dembrane, VLM and IdeaConsult turned sprawling rural workshops into a single source of truth, freeing consultants to focus on policy advice, not typing notes. The same workflow powered every remaining session through June, and sets a new standard for Flemish stakeholder engagement.

You can barely see the phone recording the session with Dembrane and sending insights live to the host.

With Dembrane, VLM and IdeaConsult turned sprawling rural workshops into a single source of truth, freeing consultants to focus on policy advice, not typing notes. The same workflow powered every remaining session through June, and sets a new standard for Flemish stakeholder engagement.

You can barely see the phone recording the session with Dembrane and sending insights live to the host.

‹ Den Bosch reflected back on their citizen assembly before the day was done

TU Eindhoven informed their future governance roadmap, with seamless, multilingual input from 150 stakeholders ›