Testing Tech for Consensus in a Purple Town
How a radical experiment in participatory democracy came to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Direct Democracy in the Digital Age: A Conversation with the Mayor of Seoul
For the past five years, the little co-op I co-founded has been working on a tool called Loomio. Workplaces, government departments, co-ops, and political parties around the world use Loomio to involve members and citizens in bottom-up decision-making. We focus on small groups, usually less than 500 people. At that...
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vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy
In the midst of the signal failure known as the US electoral season, here’s something to be inspired about: a true story about rational deliberation on a national scale.
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New Book Looks at Participatory Budgeting as Civic Tech Trend
Last week the Ash Institute For Democratic Governance and Innovation published Civicist contributor Hollie Russon Gilman’s first book, Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America. What follows is a short Q&A with Gilman about her new book and what the future may hold for participatory budgeting and other...
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Smart Participation: The Public’s Chance to be Heard on Congestion in NYC
Smart Participation is an experiment led by Cornell researchers to see how public comment processes developed at the federal level will do in local contexts.
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Small but Successful Participatory Democracy Experiment to Continue in Utah
The People's Lobby is run entirely online using the digital tools NationBuilder and Loomio.