Projects - Participatory democracy

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.

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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.

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

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.