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
Explore 47 projects in the Sortition & Citizen Assemblies category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Also called "citizen assemblies", "citizen juries", "mini-publics", or "allotment", this is a method of empowering a panel of citizens to make collective decisions. They're selected randomly from a larger pool, in order to promote fairness, diversity, and to reduce potential for corruption or partisan behavior.
"Developed by the Jefferson Centre in the 1970s, citizens’ juries are a type of structured deliberation with members of the public, sometimes referred to as a ‘mini public’. During facilitated workshops, participants –‘the jurors’ – are given balanced information and expert presentations about a chosen issue, before deliberating on that issue and reaching a conclusion of some kind. The issue usually addresses an area of public policy, and the conclusions generated often take the form of recommendations for policymakers." - Aidan Peppin, Ada Lovelace Institute
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Civic Assembly brings together a representative group of residents, selected by lottery, to work through a shared challenge on housing.
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.
issue+design is a program for co-creating regional decarbonization policies through citizen dialogue.
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.
The Global Fellows program has a single objective: to get ordinary citizens and stakeholders involved in decision-making.