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See how well you know Thai democracy

• Engagement tech
• Games and gamification

Demokratie-Wegweiser is a digital tool that connects citizens with the right political representatives based on their location.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Democracy without Elections is a member-run 501c3 nonprofit that promotes the use of democratic lotteries.

• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Specific digital participation instances

To express and build solidarity, the World Movement for Democracy presents the Democracy Courage Tributes to give special recognition to the extraordinary efforts of groups and movements working under particularly diffi­cult circumstances.

• Participatory democracy
• Awards and prizes

In 2023, the Danish Board of Technology and ParticipationDenmark merged. We are now called DEMOCRACY X, with a focus on technology, society and sustainability.

• Climate action

• Emerging tech
• Campaign organizations

This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society

• books

• books

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

This book will be discussed in an online roundable on the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

• books

The book significantly enhances current scholarship, serving as a guide to existing research and identifying useful future research

• books

Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of ...

• books

• Participatory democracy

We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democratic Innovations

This is an especially powerful volume for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of third world structures

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Deliberation

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective

• books

• Fight disinformation

In Democracy 2.0, we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular.

• books

• Participatory democracy

Democracy in the Digital Age is a fascinating philosophical exploration of how the emerging information and communication technologies are impacting political participation in the United States

• books

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion?

• books

• Participatory democracy

• books

Throughout the book, comprehensive surveys of democratization research demonstrate that each approach accomplishes one of these goals well but the other two poorly

• books

Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."

• Microsoft

• Fight disinformation
• Journalism
• Voting and elections

The Shield initiative united a set of actions for institutions and civil society, aimed at safeguarding the integrity of the elections.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions

Democratic Audit monitors democracy and freedom in the UK through a regular blog, a series of democracy assessments and reports

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The annual Democracy R&D conference is the leading international event for people who fund, run, commission, study and advocate for Citizens’ Assemblies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

DIA will select 40 participants to receive free capacity-building assistance and support for launching or improving innovative participatory programs in the European Union (EU) and Horizon Europe countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Build something
• Accelerators

Connecting the international community’s and Taiwan’s digital development and democratic governance experiences, leveraging the power of democracy networks to promote civic technology and decentralized autonomy, enhancing network development digital resilience.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

eine übersichtliche, zentrale Datenbank von der Kommune bis zum Bund – zu Wahlkreisen und Mandatstragenden. 
Mit einer digitalen Landkarte wollen wir Bürgerinnen und Bürgern den Weg durch das Wirrwarr der Zuständigkeiten weisen.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives

Open candidate information for UK elections covering all 2,015 areas

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic data APIs

Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

• Participatory democracy

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.

• Research and policy centers

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

Supporting democracy activists from all over the world, organizing knowledge-sharing events and campaigning across countries...

• People Powered

Herramientas para la democracia local

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

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

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

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI