Australian software helping Colorado governments engage with citizens

BOULDER — As communities become increasingly divided over values and politics, one Australian software company that’s now based in Boulder thinks they have the tool to help local governments actually engage with community members.

Bang The Table is a platform started 10 years ago by former career bureaucrats. The issue they noticed, said CEO Matthew Crozier, was that any time they held an event to meet with community members, the same five or six people would come every time.

“We needed to hear from the community for strategy, but those same people didn’t represent the…