Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

• Participatory democracy

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.

• Research and policy centers

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

Supporting democracy activists from all over the world, organizing knowledge-sharing events and campaigning across countries...

Herramientas para la democracia local

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI

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

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

2022 book by Dan Bouk

• 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
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

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

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

• 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

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
• News and blogs
• Digital transformation

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

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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. The reward for donating is spammy emails and phone calls. Few unbiased sources of information exist. We’re fixing that; check out the donor guide and other resources.

• guides

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

State-by-state info making it easier to vote

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

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

• labor

• Civic tech unions

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

• Govtech vendors

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Citizen Engagement
• Books

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

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

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

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

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

Accelerating Civic Innovation

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

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

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