NEW YORK & VANCOUVER, CANADA-- December 08, 2021 -- Zencity, the leading global community engagement technology platform for local governments, announced the acquisition of cutting edge digital engagement startup Civil Space, based in Vancouver, Canada. The deal immediately adds to Zencity’s powerful suite the capability to create and capture deep, meaningful, equitable, two-way conversations between governments and their residents.

With its acquisition of Civil Space, Zencity emerges as the most effective, inclusive and wide-reaching community engagement platform available for local governments, built around two core principles:

· Lowering the barriers to participation by meeting residents where they are and hearing many more voices; and
· Making it easier for governments to turn the resulting, broadened community input into action.

The combination of Zencity’s analysis of broad community input with Civil Space’s direct engagement platform will enable local leaders to further enhance the feedback they are leveraging. The information will be presented to local leaders using sophisticated technology and an integrated approach to create a 360 degree feedback process never before available to local governments.

“We are excited to deepen our ability to support local government by being more inclusive, collaborative and responsive. The new capabilities that will be added to the Zencity platform today from Civil Space round out our offering, making sure we can answer our partners' needs by enabling local leaders to easily solicit, measure and incorporate the public’s feedback into every decision they make,” said Eyal Feder-Levy, CEO, Zencity.

“Adding Civil Space's rich community engagement capabilities to the innovative approach that Zencity has taken disrupts how decisions can be made by local governments around the world. We are excited to be offering governments and their constituents the solutions they need to ensure that every community has a voice, resulting in increased responsiveness and trust between local governments and the people they serve,” said Tim Booker, CEO, Civil Space.

Tim Booker will join Zencity as Head of Civil Space, and will lead Zencity’s new Vancouver, Canada office. In March of 2021, Zencity acquired Elucd, a technology company based in New York City. The company now serves over 250 local governments, including seven of the ten largest US cities.