Projects - Participatory democracy

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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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.

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.

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.

Decade-Plus Club

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.

Abierto al publico

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

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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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

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.

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Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Parti

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

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

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.

People Powered

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

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.

All Our Ideas

Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland

All Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.

ChatGPT

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.

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

Gabinete de Inovação

Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

Sortition Foundation

Cambridge, UK

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

People Powered

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

Medialab Prado

Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

Meet the Kiosks event

6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124, USA

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

La boîte à idées

Plougastel-Daoulas, France

A 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, USA

The 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.

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Wahl-O-Mat

Germany (Deutschland)

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

Ethelo

Vancouver

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

Open By-laws South Africa

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

Taiwan Open Government Report 2014-2016

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

由開放文化基金會於2017年編寫，回顧並檢視了台灣 2014-2016 「開放政府」的發展狀況，內容分為四大章節，分別為：法律制度、開放資料、公民參與、公民科技。

Berkeley City Council municipal bonds civic crowdfunding

Berkeley

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

Streetmix

Philadelphia

Civic engagement for street design

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RapidPro

Nyaruka, Kigali, Rwanda

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

engage2

Sydney NSW, Australia

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.