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.
Case studies
We introduce democratic innovations from all over the world. Democratic innovations are initiatives, that aim to make our societies more inclusive, transparent, participatory and equal — in other words, more democratic. If you are working on such a project and want to share it, please fill out this form.
Etalab: Algorithmic Accountability in the Public Sector
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
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
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.…
Decide Madrid: Enhancing Citizen Participation in Democratic Processes through E-Government
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
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
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.
Participatory budgeting empowers direct democracy
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.
Open law-making increases transparency
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.
Holopolis uses virtual reality in public deliberation
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.