The concept
Concept — for discussion, not a released feature
Neighborhood Monitor · Ghent · vision

One place for every voice in every neighborhood — captured first, understood second.

Your neighborhood directors already gather an enormous amount from the districts: street conversations, info evenings, paper surveys, online projects, recordings. Today it scatters across tools and projects. Go Vocal is the single hub where all of it lands, is logged with full traceability, and is coded to the city's own themes — so that sensemaking, later, rests on data you trust.

Step 1 · now

Capture

Every channel feeds one place — a street chat recorded on a phone, a stack of paper forms, an online idea, an uploaded recording.

Any source · any neighborhood
Step 2 · manage first

Manage

One repository. Every item logged with where it came from, who collected it, and which theme it belongs to. Traceable end to end.

The priority for Ghent
Step 3 · make sense later

Make sense

Cross-neighborhood summaries, trends toward the elections, and reports — every insight tracing back to a real thing a resident said.

Toward 2027–2028
7
Neighborhoods monitored
1,240
Signals logged (illustrative)
3
City themes · 12 subthemes
5
Capture channels live