Projects - Participatory democracy

UK Open Government Network

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

Wales Open Government Network

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The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN)

Northern Ireland

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network

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The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

Democracy Works Foundation (DFW)

Johannesburg

Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

Participatory democracy

Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit

Philadelphia

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

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Bridge Alliance

Florida

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

We're Right Here

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

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The Society Library

Orlando, FL

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

City-Level Decision-Making Tool

Orlando, FL

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

Iniciativa legislativa dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

Iniciativa de referendo dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

Democracy Reporting International

Berlin

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

Participate Practically

Prague

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

Manifiesto por la ampliación de la democracia

Spain (España) 🇪🇸

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

European Partnership for Democracy

Brussels

We are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings

Washington, DC

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

Center for Democracy Innovation

Washington, DC

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

People Powered

National Civic League

Washington, DC

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

Octree

Geneva

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

Voca

Geneva

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

Parla

Platz der Luftbrücke 4-6, 12101, Berlin, Germany

Parla has access to more than 11,000 publicly available documents that have been published on the parliamentary documentation system PARDOK in the current legislative period.

Javna rasprava Lokal

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

E-peticija

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦

E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.

Projekat Populus

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

OECD Deliberative Democracy Database (2023)

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

U.S. Public Assembly on High Risk Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Syracuse, NY

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.

Federation for Innovation in Democracy - Europe (FIDE)

Brussels

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

The Computational Democracy Project

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, 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.

OpenAustralia.org

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

AI • Objectives • Institute

San Francisco

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

Nets4Dem

Berlin

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

They Work For Us Thailand

No. 1 Building, 6th Floor, Soi Patpong, 1 Surawong Rd, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500

Who is our representative? Search, check, transparent | ใครคือผู้แทนของเรา ค้นหา ตรวจสอบ โปร่งใส

Right to Know

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Alaveteli instance for Australia

Alaveteli

InfoLib

Liberia 🇱🇷

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

Alaveteli

Fondazione openpolis

Rome

Raccogliamo dati per produrre informazioni utili e di qualità. Un patrimonio pubblico e aperto, curato e arricchito ogni giorno.

Informations Freiheit

Austria (Österreich) 🇦🇹

Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wurde kundgemacht

Access to Information Community of Practice

Parlameter Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija) 🇸🇮

Parlameter je orodje, ki z analizo glasovanj in transkriptov nastopov lajša spremljanje dela v Državnem zboru.

OPRAmachine

New Jersey

Alaveteli instance for New Jersey, USA

Alaveteli

MamPrawoWiedziec.pl

Warsaw

Wybierz okręg:

Dostup do Pravdy (Доступ до правди)

Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦

Сайт «Доступ до Правди» працює як уніфікована платформа для надсилання електронних запитів розпорядникам інформації відповідно до Закону “Про доступ до публічної інформації”.

Alaveteli

VreauInfo

Moldova (Moldova), The Republic of 🇲🇩

Romanian Alaveteli instance

Majles Observatory (مرصد مجلس)

Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳

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Ask Nepal

Nepal 🇳🇵

हरेक नागरिकलाई साधारण अधिकारीहरूद्वारा राखिएको सूचनाको पहुँचको हक छ कानुनतः, उनीहरूले जवाफ दिनै पर्छ।

Alaveteli

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.