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

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

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

• Consul
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

Мы поможем добиться справедливости! Создайте свою петицию или инициативу вместе с Democrator за пару минут

• Petitions

Democracy & Freedom Watch is an independent news service reporting on democracy and freedom in the Republic of Georgia. It is published by Journalists for the Future, a non-governmental organization registered in Georgia and supported by Open Society and The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

• Graveyard
• Budget explorers

A forma fácil de ler o Parlamento.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

DemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Last articles published in 2024. A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation
• Deliberation

A democratic statecraft lab was a rotating lab in partnership with the democracy initiative at uva. It ran from 2019-2022.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.

• women
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

A union for Democracy Works employees. Fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and representative democracy, inside and outside of Democracy Works.

• labor

• Graveyard
• Civic tech unions

State-by-state info making it easier to vote

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible

• guides
• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• People Powered

We promote a right to democracy at all levels, global institutions that are democratic and effective, and equal global citizenship.

• Participatory democracy

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Urban planning

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Most Powerful Way to Advocate for Your Community

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Anonymous Voting at Work, School, and Play :)

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Network of French civic tech organizations

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

by Hollie Russon Gilman. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

What we stand for: a just democracy, a fair economy and an environmentally sustainable future.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that voting should fit the way we live.

• Civic and social impact companies

Democracy needs an upgrade

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

To promote charitable projects that want to implement an innovative digital idea to strengthen our democracy.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• city
• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Digitale Projekte auf ihrer Learning Journey

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

DemocracyOS est une plateforme web qui permet de prendre des décisions de manière transparente et collective.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Democratic GAIN is a national membership association for progressive political professionals and organizations.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Accelerating Civic Innovation

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Connecting people and power

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech