Kyiv Smart City Initiative brings together Kyiv citizens, entrepreneurs, activists, and city officials to develop intelligent urban infrastructure.
Researchers at Etalab, the French government task force for data policy and open government, are working to enhance algorithmic accountability in the public sector.
PopVox connects the United States Members of the Congress and citizens by providing them with safe digital communication channels. On PopVox, constituents can view, track and discuss legislation.
Hélène Landemore
The pre-voting phase doesn’t get enough attention in popular vote processes, argues Associate Professor Hélène Landemore from Yale University. In her article “Referendums Are Never Merely Referendums: On the Need to Make Popular Vote Processes More Deliberative”, published in the Swiss Political Science Review, Landemore emphasizes the importance of deliberation in referenda and other public votes. She also introduces the notion of “open mini-publics.”
Sign up for the first Democracy Accelerator workshop! In small groups, we will share best practices and lessons learned from our work with democratic innovations.
Audrey Tang, the Digital Minister of Taiwan, will talk about several democratic innovations, including the implementations of virtual reality (VR), crowdsourcing and radical transparency.
France has implemented several democratic innovations in recent years. People’s feedback was crowdsourced for the Digital Republic Law, open data is published actively on open data platform, and new legislation to enable more transparent and inclusive society is in making.
