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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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Democracy Works Foundation (DFW)
Johannesburg, South AfricaProviding Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.
Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit
PhiladelphiaThe City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.
Bridge Alliance
FloridaBridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.
We're Right Here
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.
The Society Library
Orlando, Florida, USAThe Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.
City-Level Decision-Making Tool
Orlando, Florida, USAThe Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.
Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters
Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.
‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.
Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.
European Partnership for Democracy
Brussels, BelgiumWe are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.
Converlens
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaDiscover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.
Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings
Washington, DCBetter public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.
National Civic League
Washington, DCAdvancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities
Center for Democracy Innovation
Washington, DCThe mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.
Octree
Geneva, SwitzerlandOctree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.
Parla
BerlinDieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.
Javna rasprava Lokal
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.
E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.
Projekat Populus
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.
OECD Deliberative Democracy Database (2023)
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceThe OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more
The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.
Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table
The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.
OpenAustralia.org
The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.
Nets4Dem
BerlinTwelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.
They Work for Us
No. 1 Building, 6th Floor, Soi Patpong, 1 Surawong Rd, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500Thailand's Members of Parliament Monitoring Website
Right to Know
The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780Alaveteli instance for Australia
InfoLib
LiberiaAn iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli
OpenPolis
RomeRaccogliamo dati per produrre informazioni utili e di qualità. Un patrimonio pubblico e aperto, curato e arricchito ogni giorno.
OPRAmachine
New Jersey USAAlaveteli instance for New Jersey, USA
Parlameter Slovenia
SloveniaParlameter je orodje, ki z analizo glasovanj in transkriptov nastopov lajša spremljanje dela v Državnem zboru.
The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.
[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.
Delib Citizen Space
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHNext-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.
Agora (France)
Paris, FranceL'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.
This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.
Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.
The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).
Peticijos.lt
LithuaniaPeticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.
World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting
Faro, PortugalThe World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.
Fundusz sołecki
PolandPolish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities
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