Digital communication platforms for municipalities in general span from simple messengers to kind of face-book like platforms that allow participants to form groups and generate projects. Both tiypes have advantages and disadvantages. One of the rather simple messenger-like apps in Switzerland is megaphone https://www.megaphone.info/ utilised by smart villages such as Ernen, Eischoll and other municipalities in canton Wallis. A more sophisticated tool is crossiety implemented in more than 150 municipalities in Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. A German competitor of crossiety is DorfFunk App https://www.digitale-doerfer.de/mitfunken/ that has been created in the framework of the project Digitale Dörfer.
