Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Participatory process facilitators and partners

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Group decision making

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

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
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

We're the UK's leading public participation charity, on a mission to put people at the heart of decision-making

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Una plataforma de participación ciudadana digital que permite visibilizar y priorizar propuestas ciudadanas a nivel nacional

• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech
• Digital participation platforms

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

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

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

the digital engagement catalogue

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

• Civic data
• Roundtables

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A Distributed Network of Institutions for Peer to Peer Public Deliberation

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Community PlanIt is an online game platform that fosters deliberation and civic participation in planning processes to e...

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Zilino is the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

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