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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.
Crowdmatching for Public Goods
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.
Idėja Tauragei
LithuaniaThis platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Klaipėda
LithuaniaThis platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Anykščiai
LithuaniaThis platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
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.
Dalyvauk! Vilnius
LithuaniaThis platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Fundusz sołecki
PolandPolish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities
Peticijos.lt
LithuaniaPeticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.
Women at the Table
Geneva, SwitzerlandWomen at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.
FairVote
MarylandFairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.
Microsoft AccountGuard
Redmond, WAMicrosoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.
CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.
Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.
Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.
Brennan Center for Justice
New York UniversityThe Brennan Center is a nonpartisan law and policy institute, striving to uphold the values of democracy.
Press Forward
United States of America (the)Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.
Brasil Participativo
Brazil (Brasil)Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)
Artificial Intelligence for the Legislative Branch
Washington, DCPOPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.
MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.
Metamorphosis Foundation
Skopje, North MacedoniaMetamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.
coletivo delibera
Brazil (Brasil)O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.
Making Voices Heard in the Regulatory Process (US OMB)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAToday, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.
Stichting Netwerk Democratie
AmsterdamNetwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.
An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.
European Citizen Action Service
BrusselsThe European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.
Smarter-Together
BrusselsVetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world
Es geht LOS!
BerlinWir sind ein zivilgesellschaftlicher, überparteilicher Think & Do Tank für losbasierte Bürgerbeteiligung. Wir initiieren geloste Bürgerräte kommunal, im Wahlkreis, national und sogar in öffentlichen Institutionen.
Wir holen euch ab!
GermanyDabei haben sich Katharina Liesenberg und Linus Strothmann vom Team Es geht LOS einer jahrtausendealten, urdemokratischen Methode bedient: des Losens. Indem sie im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes an Türen klingelten, haben sie Menschen in ihrer persönlichen Lebensrealität abgeholt und miteinander in Kontakt gebracht. Ein Buch voll inspirierender Beispiele, die ihren Praxistest alle bestanden haben.
Agora.Brussels
BrusselsCitizens' movement to practice democracy by sortition. Notable twist includes winning a seat in Brussels Parliament, where their elected representative must act on behalf of 50 residents chosen by lot.
Innovationshauptplatz of the city of Linz
Linz, AustriaYou want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!
Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.
The Movement was founded to give the world better social media, where the people control the platform and receive its profits, where democracy and children are prioritized over corporate profits, and where the community is enabled to fight income inequality and the climate crisis LEARN MORE
Civic Hall Brussels
BrusselsA place to restore trust and shape the future of democracy via collective experimentation, empowerment and creativity
PowerSwitch Action
Oakland, CaliforniaPowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.
manoSeimas
Lithuania"„ManoSeimas.lt“ („My Parliament“) is a user-friendly online tool dedicated to making the country´s political scene more transparent and understandable." - WSA Global
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