Policypitch.com is an online platform for the exchange of ideas which has the purpose of promoting citizen participation in the decision making processes at different levels.
Policypitch.com was created and developed by Barbarian Enterprises a New Orleans based venture development company. The organisation’s purpose is to increase civic and citizen engagement, bringing power to people to change their surroundings for the better.
Policypitch acts as a virtual platform and information exchange for introducing new ideas and policies at neighbourhood, city and state levels. On the website people can pitch and discuss ideas for community action and local policy exchange. Policypitch helps them to gather resources, collaborate with others and transform the online communication into real action.
Policypitch aims to challenge current thinking on where local policies come from, advocating that local policy and progressive change should be a bottom-up approach.