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Participedia harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of participatory politics and governance around the world.

"One such thing is happening in the Netherlands: thousands of civil servants belonging to all government organizations have built their own "intranet" using Pleio ("government square", in Dutch) a platform that runs on the open source networking engine Elgg."

Project which uses Github to collaborate on a manifesto.

Welcome to ParticipateDB, a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation brought to you by Intellitics, a provider of digital engagement solutions

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Loomio is free and open source software for anyone, anywhere, to participate in decisions that affect them

Steph himself is a digital strategist and practitioner, helping clients to use low-cost digital tools and techniques including social media to engage their audiences, work more collaboratively and save money. He writes strategies, manages projects, builds websites and delivers training.

Civic Exchange is a platform for improving public services by showcasing and promoting the reuse of civic software. This includes online tools that support public service delivery, apps/services built on government APIs, or initiatives piloted with a local authority and created by others. The platform is run by Nesta in collaboration with our Code for Europe partners.

The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.

Open Policy Making aims to drive up the quality of civil service advice. It encourages greater collaboration to challenge and innovate beyond conventional thinking.

A global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens who crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world.

Presentation by Amy Pollard of the Cabinet Office's Open Policymaking Team.

Cristiano Ferri Faria of the Hacker Laboratory in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies writes about how they are involving citizens in making legislation.

Open government is great. At least, it was a few election cycles ago. FOIA requests, open data, seeing how your government works-it's arguably brought light to a lot of not-so-great practices, and in many cases, has spurred citizen-centric innovation not otherwise imagined before the information's release.