SosyalFest 2026 · Civic tech
Sadece Yaşama, Şehrini Yönet
Zehra Avcı and Hamza Bilden co-created a participatory city governance platform where citizens can report problems, propose solutions, vote on ideas and follow what gets done. It won Turkey 2nd Place at SosyalFest 2026.
Problem
A path from feedback to follow-through.
People need more than a place to leave comments. City participation needs a clear structure for raising problems, considering proposals and following outcomes.
Solution
A structured way to take part.
Sadece Yaşama, Şehrini Yönet gives citizens a platform to report problems, propose solutions, vote on ideas and track progress, with six roles that have defined permissions.
- Report problems
- Propose solutions
- Vote on ideas
- Track progress
Participation architecture
Six roles, defined responsibilities.
Each role has specific permissions in the platform. The roles create a structure for participation beyond an open comment thread.
- 01 · Citizen
- 02 · Local official
- 03 · Auditor
- 04 · Expert evaluator
- 05 · Moderator
- 06 · Executive board member
The team
Different skills, shared project.
Social innovation framework, participation strategy, six-role permission architecture, user psychology and civic participation design.
All technical development.
Technology
Built by Hamza Bilden.
Technical development by Hamza: React, Node.js, Express, Prisma, SQLite and JWT Auth.
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- Prisma
- SQLite
- JWT Auth
Recognition
SosyalFest 2026 · Turkey 2nd Place.
Turkey 2nd Place in the “Türkiye Yüzyılında Başarı Modelleri” category at SosyalFest 2026. The festival received 12,020 team applications, about four times the previous year.
SosyalFest 2026 was Turkey’s first national social sciences festival. The project advisor was Hande Ünal; school: Şehit Cengiz Polat Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi, Yenimahalle, Ankara.
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