A global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens who crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world.
"Open University research project that aims to facilitate debate and mutual learning among the many different actors involved, so that we better understand these new forms of public participation in the broader social and political context in which they are situated. This page provides a platform for contributions to this debate."
The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group co-ordinates and promotes theoretical and empirical research in democratic theory and democratic innovation. We're a specialist group of the UK's
Involve are experts in public participation. Through both research and practice they seek to radically transform the relationship between citizens and their governments to better use the creativity, energy, knowledge, skills and resources of all.
This diagnostic and toolkit has been developed by Sciencewise- ERC to help people within organisations who are interested in improving their organisation's use of dialogue and engagement.
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.