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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)
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Ghanoonban
TehranUsing modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality
coUrbanize
33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USAcoUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.
RapidPro
Nyaruka, Kigali, RwandaRapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.
Streetmix
PhiladelphiaCivic engagement for street design
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
La boîte à idées
Plougastel-Daoulas, FranceA la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.
NY Senate Bill Alerts
New York, USAThe New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.
Wahl-O-Mat
GermanyThe Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.
Ethelo
VancouverEthelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
Talkto.nyc
New York, NYIt's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.
We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.
SPILNO
Darvina St, 5, Kyiv, UkraineDigital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions
Barcelona Digital City
Barcelona, SpainThe priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformation.
GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog
GovLab New York UniversityThe CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
Parliament Watch (Uganda)
UgandaParliament Watch is a non-profit organization that monitors and reports on the work of the Parliament of Uganda. The organization also leverages technology to share live minute-by-the-minute updates on social media and provides in-depth analysis to create a better understanding on the business of Parliament.
Legislation.gov.uk
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.
Participedia
VancouverAnyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.
Conversation AI
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAConversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.
Ciudadanía Inteligente
ChileOne of South America's leading campaign and tech organizations
DemocracyOS
Buenos AiresDemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.
Networked European Democracy
EuropeTo explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.
a case study by GovLab
Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy
Thimmaiah Road, Govinda Chetty Colony, Rajiv Gandhi Colony, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJanaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.
Plural Policy (formerly Civic Eagle)
MinnesotaShape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.
Plural Policy (previously Open States)
United States of America (the)Track bills, review legislation, research data & see how your representatives are voting.
BillCam
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAFind any State or Federal bill and, if you like, share it live through social media
Innovation in Democracy Programme
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.
Bill To Text
United States of America (the)BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.
Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USAThe Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.
Assembl
Paris, FranceMassive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.
Jamnevisi
Tehran“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.
The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
Marsad Majles
4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).
Blue Nove
Levallois-Perret, Francebluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.
Center for New Democratic Processes (formerly Jefferson Center)
332 Minnesota St, Saint Paul, MN 55101, USAThe Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.
CONSUL
AmsterdamOpen source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
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