Projects - Participatory democracy

Citizen Dialog Kit

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

place-based

iLaw

House No. 1111/3, Ban Klang Muang Ratchada-Lat Phrao, Lat Phrao Road, Chan Kasem Subdistrict, Chatuchak District, Bangkok 10900

Thai organization campaigning for democratic principles

Frankly

The Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

Consult Evaluation: Scottish Government’s Non-surgical cosmetic procedures consultation

10 Downing Street

"Consult was generally good at identifying the themes in a given consultation response."

reports

SAAFE DelibTech

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

GNOVA

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

Na GNova somos pessoas apaixonadas por impulsionar a inovação no setor público, resolvendo problemas de forma criativa.

Colaboratório de Inovação Cidadã para o Desenvolvimento Social (CLIC)

São Paulo

Inventar, ativar e participar de redes cujo foco é promover acordos de convivência e modelos de colaboração para a transformação social, contribuindo de forma criativa e inovadora para a construção de um mundo comum entre diferentes.

TheyWorkForYou Votes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Votes in the UK’s Parliaments determine the laws that we all live by, and we want the information about who voted for what to be as accurate, easy to use and easy to understand as possible.

Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded (INSPIRE)

Birmingham, UK

Re-imagining Democracy with Europe’s Diverse Communities

SAAFE

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies

BG 2050

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Imagining the Bowling Green and Warren County of the Future

What Could BG Be

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

reports

Guía para el Desarrollo de Espacios Participativos

Argentina

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

Orçamento Participativo Digital do Estado do Piauí

Teresina, Piauí, Brasil

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

Colab

São Paulo

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

apps

CIVICUS Digital Democracy Initiative

Johannesburg, South Africa

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

Analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem

Johannesburg, South Africa

a comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

reports

Participatory democracy

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

ECHO

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

ParticipationAI

Spain (España)

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

Make Votes Matter

London

Make Votes Matter is the [UK] national movement for Proportional Representation

Metagov Slack

United States of America (the)

Metagov is host to a community of research and practice.

Our House

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Our House is building a popular case for democratic reform through a new People's Charter [in the UK].

Democracy Innovation Hub

New York, USA

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (Civic Data Coop)

Liverpool

The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)

Paris, France

The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Harvard’s hub for research and teaching on democracy

Humankind

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Agency For Urban Change

CrownShy

United States of America (the)

We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.

G1000

Brussels

G1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.

Zesumme Vereinfachen

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

KOSO NIPPON

Tokyo

Japanese think tank running residents councils across the country

科技、民主與社會研究中心 - Center for Research on Technology, Democracy and Society (DSET)

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

As a national think tank, we are committed to proposing policy recommendations on emerging technologies based on the public needs of democracy and society and to offering the international community a unique Taiwanese perspective.

Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

Online Technology as a Pathway for Citizen Deliberation and Depolarization

This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.

E-Participation Index

A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.

AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.