Let's build tomorrow's democratic infrastructure together!

Let's build tomorrow's democratic infrastructure together! Current Civic Tech platforms often remain isolated, poorly coordinated, and insufficiently linked to institutional processes. Looking for a response to declining trust, fragmented participation tools, and increasing disconnect between civic engagement and public decision-making, the DDS aims to connect civic technologies and strengthen citizens’ engagement at scale. By enabling interoperability, traceability, and shared governance standards, the DDS would: - Connect contributions across platforms, levels, and territories; - Strengthen the visibility and influence of citizen input; - Support a pluralistic, open, and collaborative civic tech ecosystem; - Enhance transparency and accountability in democratic processes. This project is led by Open Source Politics and Startin'blox, with the support of the Metropolis of Bordeaux (France) and the Association CivicTech Europe (ACTE).  In 2025, we wrote a vision paper to explain the challenges we tackle and the opportunities interoperability between civic technologies could bring. We also created two pilot projects: one to connect several Decidim platforms' proposals to let users from platform B to view and react to ideas published on platform A; the other to mock-up a new interface where contributions and additional information from multiple platforms could be shown to the public, filtered by type/topic/location and analyzed by LLMs.