Participatory democracy
Participatory democracy strives to create opportunities for all members of a population to make meaningful contributions to decision-making and seeks to broaden the range of people who have access to such opportunities. (Wikipedia: Participatory democracy)
Democracy Beyond Elections
A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
Ampliando Democracia
Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, in...
Queremosdatos.co
Todos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)
Democracy Technologies in Europe: Online Participation, Deliberation and Voting
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
Sequent
Sequent is a next-generation online voting platform purposely built to ensure the highest level of confidence in digital elections for election managers, voters and auditors
MyCandidate Nigeria
The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and...
Alliance of Democracies
The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.
The Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs. Our fellows are selected through hackathon, ideathon and pitch-competitions locally in Ukrain...
The Centre for Civic Innovation
What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
Danes je nov dan
Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
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El Avispero
We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tol...
Participatory Digital Futures: How digital transformation can be made good for all
by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for...
Közösségi Digitális Eszközök Alapítvány
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools....
Red Ciudadana
Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD)
ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.
Partimap
PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.
K-Monitor
We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
LocalView
LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the...
The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Innovation Towards the Co-Creation of Smart Sustainable Cities
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city de...
Canòdrom
Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital
The Collective Intelligence Project
Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
demokratie.today
Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
CONSUL für Schulen
Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule
Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation
"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes...
Best practices of engaging and involving people with lived experience in decision-making
Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in h...
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
The People's Money
NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
Climate Democracy
Climate section of the Participation Playbook
Participatory Policymaking
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
Legislative Theater
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Participation Playbook
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to ope...
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.
Deliberative Democracy in Asia
Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)
Democracy Network (United Kingdom)
A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy i...
iLaw
Access to legal information resource in Thailand
Mehr Demokratie
Seit mehr als 30 Jahren bringt Mehr Demokratie die direkte Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung voran und kümmert sich um Transparenz und ein faires Wahlrecht.
Bill Track 50
We provide a simple search tool for state and federal legislation and regulations and assemble your results into a spreadsheet-style grid for you to view and enjoy.
Open Parliament Canada
Finding out what your representatives in Ottawa are up to can be tough. We’re trying to make it easy.
Denver Participatory Budgeting
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
L.A. REPAIR
The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million...
City of Sacramento Participatory Budgeting
On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.
Qué hacen los diputados
Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumpli...
Purpoz
Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)
Голосування (Rada)
Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament
Вони голосують для тебе
Як депутати голосують за питання, які важливі для тебе? - They Vote for You instance in Ukraine
Innovation in Politics Institute
Improving democratic politics is our mission: The Innovation in Politics Institute identifies, develops and applies innovations in politics and facilitates best practice exchange across borders and pa...
Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participa...
European Capital of Democracy
The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for th...