Projects - Participatory democracy

Wisdom Bank Torfaen

This neighbor-helping-neighbor expert network attempts to replace the “pub conversation”

Crowdlaw Manifesto

The GovLab, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

Nesta Designing for Public Services: a practical guide

58 Victoria Embankment

Our guide on using design tools and methods in the public sector, created in partnership with design firm IDEO.

OpenGov Foundation

Washington, DC

The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures.

Councilmatic

United States of America 🇺🇸

Search, browse, subscribe and comment on your City Council bills, council members and events.

meinBerlin

Berlin

Auf meinBerlin finden Sie eine Übersicht über Projekte der Berliner Verwaltung sowie zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, sich aktiv an der Gestaltung unserer Stadt zu beteiligen

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

US Department of Defense talent directory

Missions Publiques

Paris

est une agence spécialisée en participation citoyenne basée à Paris, Bonn et Bruxelles. Depuis 1998, nous avons initié ou organisé plus de 1300 dialogues citoyens dans 125 pays

People Powered

OpenLaws.com

Kirchenstraße 15, 5301 Eugendorf, Salzburg, Austria

openlaws.com is a thematic search engine that is covering legal content.

Republic

San Francisco

Now you can be an angel investor

Participez Nanterre

Nanterre, France

Bienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative. A Decidim instance.

Decidim

Open Culture Foundation

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Open source, open data, and open government.

Taiwan Open Government Report 2014-2016

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

由開放文化基金會於2017年編寫，回顧並檢視了台灣 2014-2016 「開放政府」的發展狀況，內容分為四大章節，分別為：法律制度、開放資料、公民參與、公民科技。

Medialab Prado

Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

Meet the Kiosks event

6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

Open By-laws South Africa

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

Gabinete de Inovação

Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

engage2

Sydney

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

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CauseVox

Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.

Polis

Seattle

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

Insights

24 Raul Wallenberg, Ziv Towers, Tel Aviv

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

CoCounsel

United States of America 🇺🇸

Commercial law lookup tool

coUrbanize

33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

Streetmix

Philadelphia

Civic engagement for street design

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Ethelo

Vancouver

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

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

Sortition Foundation

Cambridge, UK

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

People Powered

NY Senate Bill Alerts

New York state

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

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Wahl-O-Mat

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

Liquid

United States of America 🇺🇸

Demo data visualization of an election held with liquid democracy in place

Go Vocal

Bd Pachéco 34, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The only platform you need for meaningful community engagement.

Association Civic Tech Europe

PublicInput

16 West Martin Street, Raleigh, North Carolina

PublicInput.com connects organizations with the communities they serve.

Shine Your Eye

Nigeria 🇳🇬

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

Beta Blocks

Boston

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

Podemos

Madrid

Contigo, construimos el cambio político en nuestro país. Sí se puede. ¡Podemos!

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

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

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Ecrivons Angers

Angers, France

Angers participatory budget - a Decidim instance

Decidim

Represent by Pro Publica

155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

See what your representatives in Congress say and do.

Betri Reykjavík (Better Reykjavik)

Reykjavik

Better Reykjavik allows citizens to propose the policies that matter to them

Your Priorities

La Fabrique de la Loi

41 Rue Boissy d'Anglas, Paris, France

Explorez l'évolution de la loi au fil de la procédure parlementaire avec La Fabrique de la Loi ! Plus de 800 textes de loi promulgués depuis 2008 à explorer pour mieux comprendre comment les parlementaires influent sur la loi

IndieGogo

Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream, and buy hundreds of unique products shipping now from Indiegogo's Marketplace.

Grand Débat National

France 🇫🇷

À l'initiative du Président de la République, le Gouvernement engage un Grand Débat National permettant à toutes et tous de débattre de questions essentielles pour les Français.