Projects - Participatory democracy

Design for Civic Change

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

Emerson Collective Fellowship

United States of America 🇺🇸

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

La Constitución es Nuestra

Santiago

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

Decidimos Monterrey

Monterrey

En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.

Collective Intelligence Tools Trello

A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio

NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

Decidim

Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

reports

inCitu

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

Healthier Democracies Case Studies

Brooklyn

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

Abierto al publico

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

Decade-Plus Club

ActiVote

1 Avery St, Boston, MA

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

Global

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

GovSight

14110 Rocky Valley Dr, Centreville, VA

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

local

Democracy Without Borders

We promote a right to democracy at all levels, global institutions that are democratic and effective, and equal global citizenship.

Participatory democracy

Enspiral

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Enspiral is a network of people working on stuff that matters. Our mission is to support people to do the same.

g0v

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

g0v

Parti

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

시민 참여, 협력, 자치를 확대하는 시민 플랫폼 (Citizen Platforms)

Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

Participace 21

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika) 🇨🇿

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

Observatorio de Políticas Públicas de Guayaquil

Guayaquil

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

Participatory democracy

Rahvaalgatus.ee

Tallinn

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

local

Participate.Online + Envirolytical

Seattle

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

Campaign for a UN World Citizens’ Initiative

Democracy Without Borders campaign

United Nations

Participatory democracy

Decide Madrid

Madrid

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

All Our Ideas

Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland

All Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.

ChatGPT

BiPart

Italy (Italia) 🇮🇹

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

OmaStadi

Helsinki

Helsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting

Decidim

Parti Town Hall

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings

web app

빠띠 시민대화는 질문과 대화로 (Parti Citizens' Dialogue)

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Party Citizen Dialogue is a citizen dialogue platform that creates change through questions and conversations.

Abre Tu Muncipio

Santiago

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

Consul

Empaville

Europe

Participation simulator game and card deck

Public Sentiment

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Public Sentiment helps decisionmakers solve local problems using genuine community engagement fueled by local community networks and powerful digital tools