Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Meeting tech
• Socialize online

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.

• Awards and prizes

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

A network and resource library for open sharing of democratic innovations

• resources

• Peer networks

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact

Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to promote democracy and sustainable economic development.

Pledge and training materials on how to resist a coup

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

• research

• The People
• Data visualization
• Get funding

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

This year at PDF, we’re going to focus on meaningful action and collaboration. This year, PDF will be about plugging you into the process of change-making.

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

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Data for Democracy is a community of data people volunteering on social impact projects.

• The People
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Développer ensemble des solutions open source pour la démocratie.

• Working groups

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

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

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Graveyard

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.

• methodology

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Co-design

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• Consul

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

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

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Build something
• Adjacent Fields

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

E-Collecting for Switzerland

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Petitions

Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Our objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

Contigo, construimos el cambio político en nuestro país. Sí se puede. ¡Podemos!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

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

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Engagement tech

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Build something
• Adjacent Fields

Janaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

crypto governance

• Blockchain

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation