Participatory Governance Framework

A rubric for the functions governance software performs, and a scorecard rating civic and workplace tools against it.

Every organization needs oversight, decision-making, and coordination — whether it's a school board, a nonprofit, or a neighborhood council. The Participatory Governance Framework (PGF) breaks that work into distinct functions so tools that support it can be compared on a common basis rather than by marketing copy.

Using the Ordinizer, we generate a scorecard from each vendor's own published materials, showing which capabilities they claim to support — with every score citing the source passage.

• Overview — the framework itself: what governance functions it covers and why.
• Scorecard — how civic and workplace tools rate against those functions.
• FAQ — how the analysis is performed and its limits.