Project Overview
| Role: Developer | Type: Personal Project | Website |
The Challenge
Give residents of Ames (Galicia, Spain) a digital tool to propose, track, and vote on community initiatives — replacing scattered WhatsApp groups and paper petitions with transparent, structured civic participation.
Solution
A progressive web app built around three participatory pillars:
- Citizen Listening — Community assemblies and shared diagnosis: structured input from residents surfaced in a public feed
- Co-Design Workshops — Collaborative sessions between residents and municipal staff, documented with progress tracking
- Open Metrics — Transparent publication of participation data and budget allocations
- Active Projects — Safe pedestrian route mapping (lighting audits + path proposals) and dog park improvement petitions with adhesion tracking
- Multilingual — Spanish, Galician, and English interfaces
- Accessibility — Dark mode, high-contrast toggle, PWA installable, responsive
Additional features: contact form, FAQ, downloadable participation guide (PDF), social sharing (WhatsApp, X, Facebook), email newsletter, and Schema.org structured data.
Technical Stack
PHP JavaScript HTML/CSS PWA (Service Worker) Schema.org GDPR Compliance
Industry Relevance
Full-stack civic tech product built from scratch and used by a real community. Demonstrates product development skills: user research, feature design, accessibility, multilingual support, and shipping a live product that handles real participatory democracy workflows.