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CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation

CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation is a new organisation whose mission is to manage and continuously develop the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL.

Active
Since 2015
Amsterdam
Open source: Yes (https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy)
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Evidence of this project's impact

33 Countries, 100 Institutions, 90 Million citizens (Source) — 2018-10

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Project(s): CONSUL DEMOCRACY

Org. type
Non-profit / charity / foundation
Project type
Tool or platform, Organization
Country
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
Founded
2015
Language(s)
Albanian, Arabic
Employees
0-5
Pricing
Free
Features
Collaborative drafting, Assessment of ideas, Idea submission, Collaborative budgeting, Voting, Debates, Commenting, Surveys, Mapping, Video upload, Photo upload, Recommendation engine, Notifications, Messaging between users, Verified participation, Forums and/or threaded conversations, Translation
Tech stack
BuiltWith report →
Categories
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy
Tags
Consul
Added
2021-06-22
Last modified
2026-07-12T16:45:36.000Z

Additional details

Institutions using the platform
200
How AI is used
Three years ago, in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute and several British universities, we launched an AI pilot project that allows suggestions to be sorted by certain tags, links similar suggestions with each other (or at least points out existing similar suggestions), and, as an additional function, summarizes discussions and comments. In an initial use case, this was utilized for moderation in Glasgow to summarize several thousand comments and evaluate them for administration. **Links here: ** - Alan Turing: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00508> - Glasgow: <https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/use_cases/scotland/glasgow> - Demo-Version: <https://demo.consuldemocracy.org/admin/machine_learning#settings> - Github: https://github.com/consul-ml/related\_content
Number of end users
10,000,000+
Number of integrations
0
GitHub contributors
144
Metrics of success
33 Countries, 100 Institutions, 90 Million citizens
Geographic focus
Central and Eastern Europe, Central America, South America, Western Europe, Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Spain (España) 🇪🇸, Balkans, Latin America, Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽, Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
Geographic focus — country
Europe, Central America, South America, Europe, Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧, Spain (España) 🇪🇸, Europe, South America, Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽, "Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱"
Pricing
Free
Pricing — license model
Free for download or offers a free subscription option with full features.
Pricing — government / nonprofit discount
No
Demo
https://demo.consulproject.org/
Documentation & learning
Our Documentation you can find here: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/index Tech Documentation: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/tech\_docs For Admins: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/docs\_general/type-of-users/type-of-users Use Cases: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/use\_cases
Support resources
Documentation system, personal consulting from us or our local partners, online meet-ups, slack channel, ConsulCon, Github (pull requests)
Source
Some data provided by People Powered's [Ratings for Digital Participation Tools](https://www.peoplepowered.org/platform-ratings)
Accessibility certification
Our platform meets the web accessibility standards e.g WCAG https://docs.consulproject.org/docs/english-documentation/customization/views\_and\_styles#accesibility

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