This video explains how the business intelligence tool Ethelo can be used in the participatory budgeting process. Ethelo offers a new kind of blockchain-based voting for groups, communities or other organizations. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company was founded by entrepreneur, mathematician and inventor John Richardson.

The company claims broad potential for its product, saying that the “platform offers customer insights, stakeholder insights, community insights, strategic insights, and operational insights to various sectors such as consulting, corporate social responsibility, technology, health, finance, not-for-profit, property management, development and planning, government, and cross-sector.”

The nonprofit connected to the company Ethelo.com is Ethelo.org and they have some interesting projects that you might take a look at. They published this video recently showing how the innovative Ethelo Decisions product and the algorithm behind it works: