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Kyiv Smart City Initiative: Developing Smart Infrastructure and Participatory Democracy in Ukraine

Kyiv Smart City Initiative brings together Kyiv citizens, entrepreneurs, activists, and city officials to develop intelligent urban infrastructure.

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Etalab: Algorithmic Accountability in the Public Sector

By demokratiak 09.02.2020

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: Enhancing Transparency and Information-Exchange on Capitol Hill

By demokratiak 31.01.2020

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.

Fair Data? Raising Public Awareness on Datafication

By demokratiak 10.01.2020

Background We are living in a datafied society. Our daily life is tracked through our mobile phones and computers, and our user data is sold for the benefit of global platforms, advertisers and data-analytic companies. User data collected from digital platforms and transactions is not only used to create profiles for digital markets and advertising.…

Seven recommendations for participatory budgeting

Democratic Innovation, Participatory budgeting, TransparencyBy demokratiak 20.11.2019 Leave a comment

In this blog post, researchers make seven recommendations for the participatory budgeting process in the City of Helsinki. The recommendations are based on mid-term evaluation of OmaStadi, the City of Helsinki’s participatory budgeting process.

Decide Madrid: Enhancing Citizen Participation in Democratic Processes through E-Government

By demokratiak 15.11.2019

Researchers and public officials teamed up to deliver an intelligent platform for e-governance in Madrid. Decide Madrid allows citizens to engage in online debate threads, pitch civic proposals, and vote on participatory budgeting.

Participa: Platforms for Civic Participation

By demokratiak 07.11.2019

A team of computer and social scientists launched the research project Participa with the goal of helping to strengthen the participatory culture in Paraguay. Participa geared toward developing and testing technologies in crowdsourcing and participatory budgeting.

Conciliatory Journalism Mitigates Polarization

By demokratiak 18.06.2019

Conciliatory journalism tries to decrease polarization by creating collaboration between readers and journalists. In constructive conversations about important societal issues, the notion of democracy can be strengthened.

Finland Talks – Public deliberation organized by a newspaper

By demokratiak 22.05.2019

An algorithm paired up hundreds of Finns to discuss important societal issues in face-to-face meetings. The people representing the most opposite view points were paired up. The event was organized by the leading daily Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.

Amélie Banzet: Three Levers to Promote Digital Democracy

Events, Talk, TransparencyBy demokratiak 06.02.2019

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.

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