The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights
• Predecessors

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

A mailing list for the UK democracy space

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Public Private Partnerships
• Participatory democracy

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.

• podcasts

• Podcasts
• Learn about civic tech

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Dabei haben sich Katharina Liesenberg und Linus Strothmann vom Team Es geht LOS einer jahrtausendealten, urdemokratischen Methode bedient: des Losens

How political parties have changed in the age of social media

• books

• Political parties
• Books

Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform

Antes de la creación de este archivo viviente, no había ningún lugar que encontrara, agregara, clasificara y resguardara los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México.

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.

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

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

The Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the world’s democracies.

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

• Socialize online
• Meet the others

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

El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

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.

• Learn about civic tech
• Journals
• Academia

All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Fellowships

The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values

"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

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

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

• books

• Books
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Voting and elections
• Fight disinformation
• Help more people run for office

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Coalition of NGOs is a non-partisan and neutral organization working on strengthening democracy and building civil society uniting more than 130 NGOs in every rayon of KR and have a regional office in every oblast center and Balykchy

• Partner networks and coalitions

Namibia Institute for Democracy

The goal of the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society is to contribute to the process of transparency and fairness of elections through the organization of qualitative, objective and independent monitoring of the pre-election process, the voting day and summing up the results.

The main goal of EMDS is to achieve a democratic election system and formation of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan.

UN Democracy provides comprehensive access to UN documents and data on international affairs.

• United Nations

A networked organisation, we work across Europe to connect citizens with the decisions that shape their lives.

• People Powered

• People Powered

European Institute for Participative Democracy