Projects - Participatory democracy

Climate Democracy Accelerator

Brooklyn, NY

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

La Constitución es Nuestra

Santiago, Chile

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

Decidimos Monterrey

Monterrey

En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.

Collective Intelligence Tools Trello

A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio

NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform

New York City

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

Decidim

Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

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My City Challenge Oakland

Oakland, California

An engagement program

inCitu

New York City

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

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Healthier Democracies Case Studies

Brooklyn, NY

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

Idee.paris

France

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

Zencity Engage (formerly Civil Space)

British Columbia

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

Abierto al publico

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

ActiVote

1 Avery St, Boston, MA, USA

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

GovSight

14110 Rocky Valley Dr, Centreville, VA, USA

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

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Enspiral

New Zealand

Enspiral is a network of people working on stuff that matters. Our mission is to support people to do the same.

g0v Taiwan

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

g0v

Parti

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

시민 참여, 협력, 자치를 확대하는 시민 플랫폼 (Citizen Platforms)

Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Democracy Without Borders

We promote a right to democracy at all levels, global institutions that are democratic and effective, and equal global citizenship.

Participatory democracy

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

Ollin

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

En Ollin trabajamos por un México en donde impere el estado de derecho, a través de fortalecimiento de nuestras instituciones democráticas y ciudadanos capaces de transformar su realidad.

Participatory democracy

Participace 21

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

Observatorio de Políticas Públicas de Guayaquil

Guayaquil

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

Participatory democracy

Rahvaalgatus.ee

Tallinn

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

Participate.Online + Envirolytical

Seattle, WA, United States of America

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

Social Equity and Participation Center

Chengdu

Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu

Campaign for a UN World Citizens’ Initiative

Democracy Without Borders campaign

United Nations

Participatory democracy

Decide Madrid

Madrid (Spain)

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

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BiPart

Italy (Italia)

Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

Parti Town Hall

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings

web app

DemosX

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

Abre Tu Muncipio

Santiago, Chile

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

Empaville

Europe

Participation simulator game and card deck

adhocracy+

Berlin

Makes digital democracy easy - for everyone no matter where.

Alaveteli

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Run your own Freedom of Information website

Alaveteli

TheyWorkforYou

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

Partecipa

Bologna, Italy

Partecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.

Extituto

Bogotá

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

Smartvote

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

smartvote BePart ist eine partizipative Plattform. Über diese Plattform können Bürger/-innen aktiv an der Gestaltung des smartvote-Fragebogens für ihre Wahl teilnehmen und ihre eigenen Ideen und Fragen einbringen.

Pauta Participativa

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

invites citizens to help set Parliament's agenda with a sophisticated form of ranked voting that allows them to express more nuanced preferences than traditional first-past-the-post systems