This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Deliberation

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Petitions

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

• Participatory democracy
• Debate

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

Herramientas para la democracia local

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Narrative tech

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Games and gamification

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process

• Decidim
• Brazil (federal government)
• Telegram

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Communicating with the government

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• United States (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Citizen Engagement

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

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

Gewählt. Gelost. Gemeinsam. Wahlkreisräte für die Demokratie

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Dabei haben sich Katharina Liesenberg und Linus Strothmann vom Team Es geht LOS einer jahrtausendealten, urdemokratischen Methode bedient: des Losens

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• 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

Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

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

Demokratie braucht junge Stimmen

• youth

• Media
• Participatory democracy

Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

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

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors
• Democratic Innovations

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

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Govtech vendors

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
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Fieldwide resources

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

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

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

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• 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.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Social impact design firms

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

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