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Participatory Democracy

Explore 625 projects in the Participatory Democracy category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

625 projects
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Frankly

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

The Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University
2025
Engagement tech, Group decision making, Participatory democracy, Tech for your meetings
https://ethelo.com/Active

Ethelo

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

Vancouver
2011
Civic forums, Communicating with the government, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, E-voting and I-voting, Group decision making, Ideation, Online forums, Participatory budgeting, Participatory budgeting tools, Participatory democracy, The Tech, Voting and elections
https://www.colab.com.br/Active

Colab

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

São Paulo
2013
Bureaucracy tech, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Govtech, Participatory democracy
WhatsApp, apps
https://consuldemocracy.org/2025/07/open-source-llm-powered-civic-assistant-2/Active

CONSUL Civic Assistant

For this project we will be working in a consortium of European partners on an AI-powered Civic Assistant to integrate in the CONSUL DEMOCRACY code base.

Amsterdam
2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy
https://www.synathina.gr/Active

synAthina

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

Greece
2013
Engagement tech, Group decision making, Participatory democracy, The Tech
http://iap2sa.org/Active

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) South Africa

Promoting excellence in public participation in Southern Africa

South Africa
Democratic Innovations, Fieldwide resources, Participatory democracy
https://crowdicity.com/Active

Crowdicity

Crowdicity is an idea management software solution that can be used to harness the ideas of your employees, customers, and stakeholders to drive innovation.

2012
Engagement tech, Ideation, Participatory democracy, The Tech
https://www.participate.nyc.gov/processes/trie-pbActive

The People's Money

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

New York City
2022
Engagement tech, Participatory budgeting, Participatory budgeting programs, Participatory democracy
city, Sustainable cities and communities
https://voca.city/Active

VOCA

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

Geneva, Switzerland
Building in the private sector, Build something, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Participation consultants, Participatory democracy
WhatsApp, Decidim, People Powered