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Democratic Innovations

Explore 58 projects in the Democratic Innovations category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

New methods and approaches to improve democracy from a non-technical approach. With an emphasis on emerging methods that endeavor to give citizens a more active role in governance.

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Assemblis

Assemblis "Assemblies in action" is a report-sharing gallery from the Iswe Foundation where communities publish and browse reports from community-run local assemblies around the world.

2026

Ciclos Deliberativos de Bogotá

The Deliberative Cycles are a joint initiative of the Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, Fundación Corona, and the Extituto de Política Abierta, which seeks to strengthen deliberation and citizen participation around strategic topics for the city.

Bogotá
2026

Sparkle Bureaucracy

Sparkle Bureaucracy is a network of people using AI to prototype more optimistic futures.

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
2026

Zeitgeist Deliberation Platform

Zeitgeist is a public-deliberation platform from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that combines qualitative group discussion with quantitative polling in one experience, letting governments and charities run scalable, engaging consultations.

58 Victoria Embankment

Marea Deliberativa

Spanish nonprofit that recruits and selects participants by civic lottery for the European Citizens' Panels, trains the national network of recruiters, and campaigns to bring deliberative democracy into common sense.

Madrid (Spain)

Unify Akron

A Civic Assembly brings together a representative group of residents, selected by lottery, to work through a shared challenge on housing.

Ohio
2026

Citizens' Track on AI

An initiative to use participatory practice to address the democratic deficit in AI governance, and bring greater alignment with the public interest, agency for communities, and accountability to AI governance.

UK
2026

Democratic Digital Commons

Together, we will run a series of assemblies across Europe to understand our current digital infrastructure & governance, and reimagine, showcase & demand a Democratic Digital Commons.

European Union (EU)
2026

The Global Fellows Program

The Global Fellows program has a single objective: to get ordinary citizens and stakeholders involved in decision-making.

Paris