Participatory budgeting invites residents to propose and vote on the local budget decisions. As a method for implementing direct democracy, participatory budgeting enables local civic participation.
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.
A law reform process in the Ministry of Justice in the Finland increases transparency in law-making. The reform of the Association Act, the law regulating civic activity, is opened up for public to participate in via crowdsourcing.
The Taiwan government is applying virtual reality (VR) in public deliberation. Holopolis is a series of experiments, in which VR connects citizens and government representatives to discuss about important societal issues.
Audrey Tang, the Digital Minister of Taiwan, will talk about several democratic innovations, including the implementations of virtual reality (VR), crowdsourcing and radical transparency.
