Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

"„ManoSeimas.lt“ („My Parliament“) is a user-friendly online tool dedicated to making the country´s political scene more transparent and understandable." - WSA Global

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

Unite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

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, inclusiva y sólida.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Fieldwide resources

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)

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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 post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

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

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

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.

• Participatory democracy

Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Social impact design firms

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

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 tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

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 users affected by digital initiatives.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

"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." (Translated)

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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.

• OpenStreetMap

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• People Powered

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

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.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

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 central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Archives

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Hubs

"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 development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• Consul
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Govtech vendors

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• Consul

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Citizen Engagement

"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 of participatory governance."

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

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 health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Policy simulators

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 open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Playbooks and design principles

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation
• Books

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation
• Books

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 in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Finding out what your representatives in Ottawa are up to can be tough. We’re trying to make it easy.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Find your representatives

Seit mehr als 30 Jahren bringt Mehr Demokratie die direkte Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung voran und kümmert sich um Transparenz und ein faires Wahlrecht.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

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.

• apps

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Peer-reviewed research

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 directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting