Its over-arching goal is to reinforce trust in public institutions and to unleash multiple measurable positive impacts in terms of efficiency gains and reduction of current administrative burden and costs, rooted on a Toolkit for extended semantic interoperability and on secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of fundamental once-only, relevant-only and digital by default principles, through state-of-the-art, usable and high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

De projectpartners zijn de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Groningen, Stichting Netwerk Democratie en DiA. In 2020-2021 gaan zij Polis testen en samen met andere gemeenten onderzoeken wat nodig is om op te schalen naar de rest van het land.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

The 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.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Vetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

Gewählt. Gelost. Gemeinsam. Wahlkreisräte für die Demokratie

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition

Dabei 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.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

Wir sind ein zivilgesellschaftlicher, überparteilicher Think & Do Tank für losbasierte Bürgerbeteiligung. Wir initiieren geloste Bürgerräte kommunal, im Wahlkreis, national und sogar in öffentlichen Institutionen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Sortition

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

You want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Citizens' 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.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Democratic Innovations

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.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Blockchain
• Social networks

Du möchtest selbst gifs entwerfen? Mehr zu rechten netzwerken und anti-feminismus im netz erfahren? Dann bist du bei uns richtig! In unseren workshops erfährst uns alles was du wissen musst, um hass, falschinformationen und demokratiefeindlichen aussagen im netz zu begegnen!

• youth
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Demokratie braucht junge Stimmen

• youth

• Media
• Participatory democracy

A place to restore trust and shape the future of democracy via collective experimentation, empowerment and creativity

• Hubs

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks
• Campaign organizations

"„ManoSeimas.lt“ („My Parliament“) is a user-friendly online tool dedicated to making the country´s political scene more transparent and understandable." - WSA Global

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

The Center for New Data is a non-profit using big data to build a stronger democracy.

• Voting and elections
• Data science for social good
• Voter assistance tech

A World Bank project forking the Your Priorities platform to meaningfully engage residents in Kyrgyzstan around a major development project

• development

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Unite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making. Our Services

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Todos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)

• Alaveteli

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Our end-to-end verifiable, secure, online election technology, proves the integrity of democratic processes and verifies the accuracy of voting results, without losing flexibility and ability for customization

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

A Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks

Sequent is a next-generation online voting platform purposely built to ensure the highest level of confidence in digital elections for election managers, voters and auditors

• Voting and elections
• Participatory democracy
• E-voting and I-voting

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Voting and elections
• Participatory democracy
• Voter assistance tech

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

The Heintzman Leadership Award (HLA) is presented annually by the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service (ICCS) to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Canadian public sector in promoting and influencing change in its delivery of citizen-centred service.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Research and policy centers

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Issue reporting
• Civic forums
• Social networks

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Civic data
• Engagement tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Participatory democracy
• Archives
• Communicating with the people

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Hubs
• Citizen Engagement

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Academia
• Communicating with the government
• Peer-reviewed research

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

An inactive wiki guide to e-consultation

• guides
• wikis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy