Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

• Academic programs

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

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

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Meeting tech

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

Instituto Cidade Democrática was born in June 2008 and has already worked in 15 cities, involving about 20 thousand people. Today it is consolidated as a Brazilian think and do tank of social participation. Instituto Cidade Democrática collect and analyze data and produce and share knowledge to leverage the power of civil society.

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.

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

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
• Meet the others
• Conferences

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

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
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

• The People
• Get funding
• Fieldwide resources

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Crowdsourcing
• Socialize online
• Partner networks

Democracy Defenders for informal networking events for democracy defenders and citizens caring about their freedoms and rights.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Chatbots for the next generation of digital organizing

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard