888 Co-operative Causeway
Victoria's first registered co-operative co-working space, based in Melbourne CBD, providing affordable member-run workspace for social economy organisations alongside a podcast and events network focused on cooperative and mutual enterprise.
directly known to be operating by a dod person
Latest post: Corner and connect
Melbourne, Australia
Status: active
Country: AU
Type: cooperative
Website: https://www.888causeway.coop
Concepts: cooperative, employee-ownership-trusts, worker-cooperatives, economic-democracy

À Nous La Démocratie!
A French citizen movement founded in 2016 advocating for direct democracy through institutional reforms — sortition, the Citizen Initiative Referendum (RIC), and non-accumulation of terms.
website loaded. They got https://anouslademocratie.fr/articles/ but it differ from rss feed...
Website live; no upcoming events listed at time of check, but no evidence of shutdown.
Latest post: Pour la première Démocratie française : un entretien avec Baya Bellanger sur son
France
Status: active
Country: FR
Type: movement
Website: https://anouslademocratie.fr/
Concepts: direct-democracy, sortition, citizens-assembly

Accountability Round Table
A non-partisan Australian group of citizens — academics, lawyers, politicians, journalists — working to improve standards of accountability, transparency, and democratic integrity in Australian governments.
website loaded. Saw them meet in person
Latest post: Enhancing government accountability
Melbourne, Australia
Status: active
Country: AU
Type: advocacy
Website: http://accountabilityrt.org
Concepts: accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy, liberal-democracy

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)
A New Delhi-based non-partisan nonprofit working on electoral and political reform in India since 1999 — best known for the Supreme Court litigation that compelled mandatory candidate disclosure of criminal, financial, and educational backgrounds.
website is present and loaded. Last report released by them is at 5 June, 2026
No feed found
New Delhi, India
Country: IN
Type: advocacy
Website: https://adrindia.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency

AfricTivistes
A pan-African civil society network founded in 2015 in Dakar — mobilising bloggers, cyber-activists and changemakers across 45 African countries to strengthen democracy, governance, and civic participation through digital tools.
No feed found
Dakar, Senegal
Country: SN
Type: network
Website: https://www.africtivistes.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, democracy, e-government

Afrobarometer
A pan-African survey research network headquartered in Accra conducting nationally representative surveys on democracy, governance, and quality of life in 35+ African countries — data freely available since 1999.
Latest post: Les Africains sont favorables à la libre circulation, mais restent divisés sur
Accra, Ghana
Country: GH
Type: research
Website: https://www.afrobarometer.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, liberal-democracy

AMAN – Coalition for Accountability and Integrity
Palestine's national anti-corruption and governance integrity coalition — established 2000, accredited as Transparency International's Palestinian chapter in 2006, producing integrity indices, corruption reports, and electoral integrity monitoring.
RSS feed active
Latest news page scraped
Ramallah, Palestine
Country: PS
Type: advocacy
Website: https://www.aman-palestine.org/en
Concepts: accountability-sink, democracy, radical-transparency

The Australia Institute — Democracy & Accountability Program
A dedicated research and advocacy program within The Australia Institute focused on diagnosing and addressing Australia's democratic deficit — covering truth in political advertising, parliamentary reform, anti-corruption institutions, and campaign finance.
Website live; Democracy & Accountability program page current.
Latest post: Confused about interest rates and inflation? You’re not alone
Canberra, Australia
Country: AU
Type: research
Website:
Concepts: accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy, representative-democracy

Australian Democracy Network
A coalition of 200+ Australian civil society organisations working for a fairer, more open, and more accountable democracy — focused on campaign finance reform, protecting civil society advocacy rights, protest rights, and countering disinformation.
Website is up and they got a new post. 15 Apr 2026 Take the Pledge: Integrity Organisations call on Victorian Political Parties to Commit Now to Donation Transparency
Server still up (sitemap detected)
Melbourne, Australia
Website: https://australiandemocracy.org.au
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink

Australian Democrats
A re-established Australian centrist political party with a strong focus on democratic reform, electoral integrity, and evidence-based policy — including explicit support for citizens' assemblies and proportional representation.
Latest post: We took part in a Facebook Q&A
Type: party
Website: https://democrats.org.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, mixed-member-proportional-representation, sortition

BERSIH 2.0
Malaysia's largest non-partisan coalition for electoral reform — a network of 90+ civil society organisations conducting independent election observation, voter registration drives, and public campaigns for free and fair elections since 2007.
Latest post: Akta Perkhidmatan Parlimen — Bersih gesa kerajaan teruskan reformasi Parlimen
News page source fetched 8 Aug 2026; 8 pages of news posts, most recent March 2025; site footer has copyright 2026 confirming maintained
No feed found
News page unreachable — direct fetch tooling unavailable this run; web search confirms the coalition and its international wing (Global Bersih) remain active with current reform/campaign pages
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Country: MY
Website: https://bersih.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy

br/acc (World Transparency Graph)
An open-source Brazilian civic tech project that normalises 45+ scattered government databases into a single searchable graph — making public data genuinely accessible for accountability and civic research.
brunoclz privated all his repo, so looks like his project has ended
São Paulo, Brazil
Status: inactive
Country: BR
Type: civic tech
Website:
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, accountability-sink

Build a Ballot
An Australian voter advice tool that helps citizens match their values to candidates before elections — launched before each state and federal election by Project Planet, a climate-focused charity.
was definitely active last year, as noted by a dod member
Server still up (sitemap detected)
Sydney, Australia
Type: civic tech
Website: https://www.buildaballot.org.au
Concepts: representative-democracy, e-government

Citizen Assemblies for South Australia (CAfSA)
An Adelaide-based incorporated association advocating for the use of citizens' assemblies in South Australian policy-making, with a cross-partisan advisory board including a former SA Premier, a former Liberal Senator, and the executive director of newDemocracy.
Latest post: CAfSA News Bulletin no. 8
Adelaide, Australia
Website: https://cafsa.org.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition

Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD)
A Canberra-based community nonprofit promoting good governance and civic participation in the ACT through candidate accountability forums, deliberative conversations, and civic education — independently funded and member-run since 2015.
Latest post: Redescribing Democracy: a Review
Canberra, Australia
Website: https://canberra-alliance.org.au
Concepts: direct-democracy, citizens-assembly, cooperative

Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD West Africa)
An Abuja-based independent research and advocacy organisation focused on democratic governance and human security in West Africa — founded in 1997 to support Nigeria's democratic transition, now a regional hub for policy analysis, electoral integrity, and civil society capacity-building.
Website and blog confirmed active, with current election-analysis publications (Ekiti State 2026 Pre-Election Environment Analysis; Anambra 2025 Governorship Election report).
News page found, no machine-readable date
Server still up (sitemap detected)
Abuja, Nigeria
Country: NG
Type: research
Website: https://www.cddwestafrica.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG)
A world-leading academic research centre at the University of Canberra focused on deliberative democracy — home of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, and the institution behind the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament.
Website confirmed active. Hans Asenbaum remains director; weekly seminar series running, Summer School and Journal of Deliberative Democracy ongoing.
Sitemap found, no lastmod
Canberra, Australia
Website: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/cddgg
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition

Centro Gumilla
A Venezuelan Jesuit social research centre — independent, critically engaged with Bolivarian institutions, publishing on community council governance, political participation, and social policy since 1958. One of the few credible independent governance research bodies operating inside Venezuela.
Latest post: Centro Gumilla, FUNDACEDEAP y Excuela consolidan alianza estratégica para formar
Caracas, Venezuela
Country: VE
Website: https://gumilla.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink

China Democratic League (CDL)
The largest of China's eight officially recognised 'democratic parties' — ~357,000 members, primarily intellectuals in education, science, and culture. Operates within the CPC-led multi-party cooperation system under 'bounded articulation': advisory on sectoral matters, structurally incapable of challenging CPC authority.
Direct fetch blocked (503) this run; web search confirms ongoing activity — Central Committee research on urban/rural land system reform and the continuing 'Serving the Public, Practicing for the People' education campaign.
Sitemap found, no lastmod
Beijing, China
Country: CN
Type: party
Website: https://www.mmzy.org.cn
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy

CIDECI-Unitierra
An indigenous education and documentation centre in Chiapas, Mexico, aligned with the Zapatista autonomous communities — hosting the Zapatista 'Little Schools' and serving as a hub for research on the Juntas de Buen Gobierno governance model.
Web search confirms active programming: 'Seedbed Seminar — War Against Humanity' convened at CIDECI-UniTierra 20-24 July 2026 by the Zapatista Sixth Commission.
Page last modified (from sitemap)
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Country: MX
Type: education
Website: https://unitierra.org
Concepts: democratic-confederalism

Citizen OS
An Estonian open-source civic technology platform for collaborative decision-making, public consultations, and online petitions — deployed in 50+ countries, with binding e-ID vote support in Estonia.
Latest post: Big Tech & Small Tech: Is Profit Over People Shrinking Civic Space for Good?
RSS feed active
Latest news page scraped
Tallinn, Estonia
Country: EE
Type: platform
Website: https://citizenos.com
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, radical-transparency

Citizens Foundation
An Icelandic non-profit developing Your Priorities, an open-source deliberation platform used in 45+ countries — best known for Better Reykjavík, which engaged over half of Iceland's eligible citizens.
Unsure how to read the blog section for year last posted. However https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app has activity 3 weeks ago.
Latest post: The Power of Citizen Engagement: Why “Your Priorities” is the World’s Leading Pl
Reykjavík, Iceland
Country: IS
Type: platform
Website: https://citizens.is
Concepts: democracy-tools, direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, isegoria

Citizens Parliament (UK)
A UK campaign to replace the House of Lords with a randomly selected citizens' chamber — a permanent sortition-based upper house.
London, United Kingdom
Status: inactive
Country: GB
Website:
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition

Ciudadanía Inteligente
A Chilean civic-tech organisation building tools and strategies to strengthen citizen participation, transparency, and public advocacy across Latin America and the Caribbean, active since 2009.
Santiago, Chile
Country: CL
Type: ngo
Website: https://www.ciudadaniai.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, deliberative-democracy, radical-transparency

Civic Hive
A Lagos-based civic-tech fellowship and innovation hub — training civic-tech practitioners, launching platforms for election transparency and civic participation, and running the West Africa CivicTech Conference.
Latest post: 2026 Osun State Governorship Election: Another Test for Democratic Participation
Lagos, Nigeria
Country: NG
Type: ngo
Website: https://civichive.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, radical-transparency

Civic Tech Field Guide
A crowdsourced directory describing itself as the world's most complete collection of projects, tools, and organisations using technology for democracy — founded 2016, now helping 50,000+ people a month find civic-tech work, tools, and collaborators rather than rebuild what already exists.
Site loaded, active directory and listings confirmed.
Page last modified (from sitemap)
New York City, USA
Country: US
Website: https://civictech.guide
Concepts: meta-organisation, e-government, democracy

Code for Australia
An Australian civic technology organisation that partners with government and non-profits to deliver digital solutions — through a fellowship program placing technologists inside public institutions.
personally know it exist and still running
Page last modified (from sitemap)
Type: civic tech
Website: https://www.codeforaustralia.org
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency

Code for Japan
Japan's leading civic-tech organisation, part of the international Code for All network — running an open community for citizen-led digital problem-solving, co-developing participatory decision-making platforms with local governments, and promoting open data and government digital transformation.
Sitemap found, no lastmod
Tokyo, Japan
Country: JP
Type: ngo
Website: https://www.code4japan.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, participatory-budgeting

Community Independents Project
The national support and capacity-building body for Australia's community independent candidate movement — a decentralised network of locally organised, non-partisan groups that support community-driven independent candidates for parliament.
website loaded. Last convention at 2025
Latest post: The second national Community Independents Convention, August 2022
Website: https://www.communityindependentsproject.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink

CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador)
Ecuador's main confederation of indigenous nationalities — 14 nationalities, 18 peoples — a governance actor as much as an advocacy body, having co-drafted Ecuador's 2008 plurinational constitution and operating parallel indigenous justice and territorial governance systems.
Web search confirms continued activity: leadership change (Marlon Vargas elected president, July 2025) and ongoing protest/advocacy on extractivism and state repression through mid-2026.
Quito, Ecuador
Country: EC
Type: governance
Website: https://conaie.org
Concepts: buen-vivir

Congreso Visible
A legislative transparency project based at the Universidad de los Andes since 1998 — tracking all Colombian congressional activity, publishing voting records, and running 'Candidatos Visibles' voter information campaigns each election cycle.
Bogotá, Colombia
Country: CO
Website: https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co
Concepts: radical-transparency, representative-democracy, democracy-tools

Constitutional Clarion
A YouTube channel run by Professor Emerita Anne Twomey (Sydney Law School) — a one-person public education initiative explaining how the Australian Constitution actually works: reserve powers, conventions, federalism, and referendum mechanics — for a general audience rather than a legal one.
Confirmed active — YouTube channel live, recent episodes verified
Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia
Type: media
Website: https://www.youtube.com/@constitutionalclarion1901
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, representative-democracy, tribal-epistemology

Consul Democracy
An open-source e-participation platform originally developed by Madrid City Council, now stewarded by an independent foundation and used by ~350 governments worldwide.
Latest post: Made with Consul
Madrid, Spain
Country: ES
Type: platform
Website: https://consuldemocracy.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, e-government, citizens-assembly

Conversations at the Crossroads
An independent Melbourne-based civic network running deliberative democracy initiatives, including large-scale citizens assemblies and a national program to scale deliberative participation.
Website loaded. https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/events says next event is at Tuesday 30 June 2026 'The decline of democracy and the rise of the far-right'
Latest news page scraped
Website: https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, democracy

Co-operative Bonds
A Melbourne-based cooperative of cooperative developers, providing governance, business model, and development support to co-operatives, mutuals, social enterprises, and member-based organisations across Australia.
RSS feed active
Type: practice
Website: https://bonds.coop
Concepts: cooperative, economic-democracy, workplace-democracy, community-business, worker-cooperatives

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
China's top political advisory body — a CPC-led consultative institution comprising ~3,000 delegates. Scholars characterise it as a 'flower vase' operating under 'bounded articulation': members can propose within preset CPC limits but cannot challenge the structure of authority. Included here as a documented example of managed consultation, and where it fails the good-faith accountability test.
Direct fetch blocked (503) this run; web search confirms the 14th National Committee's annual session ran 4–11 March 2026 (2,078 of 2,125 members attended), consistent with continued operation.
Beijing, China
Country: CN
Type: government
Website: http://en.cppcc.gov.cn
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy

Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)
A pan-African community of practice and action-learning network based at Wits University in Johannesburg — connecting civic-tech practitioners, maintaining the African Civic Tech Atlas, co-managing the AU Civic Tech Fund, and running the annual Civic Tech Innovation Forum.
Latest post: Civic Tech Innovation Network Annual Report: 2024/25
Johannesburg, South Africa
Country: ZA
Type: network
Website: https://civictech.africa
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, democracy

Darkenu
Israel's largest civic movement (400,000+ supporters) defending rule of law, democratic participation, and fighting corruption — founded independent media outlet DemocraTV, and led mass protests against the 2023 judicial overhaul.
website loaded. It mentioned that it was in the news פורסם: 17.11.25, 15:30 | עודכן: 02.12.25, 15:50 'חנוכה 2025: כל מה שאפשר לעשות עם הילדים בחג'
Tel Aviv, Israel
Country: IL
Website: https://darkenu.org.il/en
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink

Decidim
An open-source participatory democracy framework used by 400+ governments and organisations worldwide — citizen proposals, participatory budgeting, consultations, and collaborative legislation.
Latest post: Nos infrastructures démocratiques ne peuvent pas être propriétaires : à propos d
Barcelona, Spain
Country: ES
Website: https://decidim.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, e-government, citizens-assembly

Delibera Brasil
A Brazilian deliberative democracy organisation that designs and runs citizens' assemblies and minipublics using sortition — operating climate assemblies in the Amazon, minipublics in São Paulo's periphery, and theatre-based follow-up to turn assembly recommendations into policy.
Confirmed live and active — 2025 project updates on climate assemblies in Pará/Mozambique and Osasco minipublic
São Paulo, Brazil
Country: BR
Website: https://deliberabrasil.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, participatory-budgeting

Democracy Club
A UK civic tech nonprofit building free, open data infrastructure for elections — candidate databases, polling place finders, and ward boundary data used by the BBC, The Guardian, and local councils.
Latest post: Mapping Northern Ireland's proposed polling places
Birmingham, UK
Country: GB
Type: civic-tech
Website: https://democracyclub.org.uk
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, representative-democracy

DEMOCRACY Deutschland
A German volunteer-run nonprofit that brings the Bundestag to citizens' smartphones — users can vote on live parliamentary procedures and compare their choices with how their actual representatives voted.
Latest commit: update GitHub Actions to Node.js 24-compatible versions
Germany
Country: DE
Type: civil-society
Website: https://democracy-app.de
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, representative-democracy

Democracy Earth Foundation
An open-source civic technology foundation building quadratic voting and sovereign identity tools — aiming to make democratic participation internet-native and censorship-resistant.
Site confirmed active; no blog or news feed found
Direct site fetch returned 503; corroborated active via WEF org profile, GitHub org, and press coverage of new SAIRI autonomous AI-agent project
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Country: AR
Website: https://democracy.earth
Concepts: democracy-tools, liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, decentralized-autonomous-organization

Democracy in Colour
Australia's first national racial justice advocacy organisation led by people of colour, campaigning to address structural racism in Australian political, media, and civic institutions and to build the political power of communities of colour.
Site confirmed active; Noura Mansour still National Director per LinkedIn/site, matching existing page
Latest post: Democracy in Colour welcomes court ruling upholding racial discrimination findin
Website: https://democracyincolour.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, isegoria

Democracy International
A Cologne-based NGO advocating for direct democracy and citizen participation globally — organises the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy and supports reform campaigns worldwide.
Site confirmed active; news page shows articles dated through 28 June 2026, EU CERV Framework Partner 2026-2028
Cologne, Germany
Country: DE
Website: https://www.democracy-international.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, citizens-assembly, sortition

DemocracyNext
An international research institute focused on the theory and practice of sortition-based democracy — replacing elections with randomly selected assemblies as the primary decision-making mechanism.
website loaded. https://www.demnext.org/news mentions 2 January 2026 'How UK museums are embracing citizens’ assemblies to help frame their futures'
Copenhagen, Denmark
Country: EU
Website: https://www.demnext.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, isegoria

Democracy Technologies
A curated database and research initiative mapping the global landscape of democratic innovation tools — tracking 200+ platforms across participatory, deliberative, and digital democracy.
website loaded. Last article at September 4, 2024 AI-Washing Is an Opportunity
Vienna, Austria
Country: AT
Website: https://democracy-technologies.org
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, e-government, democracy, direct-democracy, meta-organisation

DemocracyCo
An Adelaide-based deliberative democracy facilitation practice co-founded by Emily Jenke and Emma Fletcher, designing and delivering citizens' juries and deliberative panels for government and industry across Australia and internationally.
Site confirmed active and current, team/contact details match page
Latest post: Housing Amplifcation
0421 098 355 (Emma Fletcher, co-founder) / 0427 834 062 (Emily Jenke, co-founder)
Adelaide, Australia
Type: practice
Website: https://www.democracyco.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, consensus-mapping

DemocracyLab
A Seattle-based non-profit connecting skilled volunteers with civic technology projects — an open matchmaking platform for the civic tech movement, with 7,000+ volunteers and 300+ projects supported.
website loaded. Last blog post is at 10 Sep 2025 '10,000 Volunteers and Counting!'
Homepage is JS-rendered (loading placeholder); sitemap.xml lastmod shows 2026-07-05, confirming active
Seattle, USA
Country: US
Website: https://www.democracylab.org
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy

Démocratie Ouverte
A French non-partisan association with over 10 years of democratic innovation work — experimenting with participatory tools, advising public bodies, and convening the French democratic innovation network.
Latest post: co-présidence engagée pour le renforcement de la démocratie
Site confirmed active; DémocraNews newsletter launched 17 June 2026, new co-presidency announced 18 May 2026
News page found, no machine-readable date
France
Country: FR
Website: https://www.democratieouverte.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, direct-democracy, e-government

Telegram
An Australian-operated, nonpartisan forum of process engineers, social architects, and philosophers exploring how technology, engineering, and social-systems design can improve democracy — running since December 2016. This is DOD's own site, so this entry is self-authored rather than third-party researched.
This entry, and everything else on this site, is evidence of its own activity.
main point of contact; day-to-day discussion and coordination
Designing Open Democracy
Website: https://www.designingopendemocracy.com
Concepts: meta-organisation, deliberative-democracy, accountability-sink, cybernetic-governance

Brussels, Belgium
A pan-European political movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis in 2016, calling for radical democratisation of EU institutions through transparency, a transnational constitutional assembly, and coordinated progressive politics across member states.
News page source fetched 8 Aug 2026; active publishing — latest: Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit/Project Smear (3 Aug), ICE-ification of Europe (5 Aug), MERA25 Berlin campaign launch for Sep 2026 elections
Country: EU
Type: movement
Website: https://diem25.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, democracy, liberal-democracy

Digidem Lab
A Swedish democracy lab designing and implementing digital participatory processes — an official Decidim partner running citizens' assemblies, participatory budgets, and community organising training for municipalities and organisations across Sweden and the Nordics.
Latest post: Panelsamtal med Audrey Tang
Gothenburg, Sweden
Country: SE
Type: consultancy
Website: https://digidemlab.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, participatory-budgeting

E-Democracy
A Minnesota-based nonprofit (founded 1994) pioneering online civic participation — running neighbourhood discussion forums that connect residents directly with local elected officials.
blog.e-democracy.org returning 503; Wayback capture 2026-05-16 confirms recently alive — likely temporary outage
e-democracy.org redirects to blog.e-democracy.org, which returned 503 on this check; same intermittent-outage pattern as prior run's Wayback corroboration
St. Paul, Minnesota, US
Status: inactive
Country: US
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://e-democracy.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, deliberative-democracy, e-government, direct-democracy

Earthworker Cooperative
A Victorian network of worker-owned cooperatives focused on clean energy manufacturing and services — building a democratic economy as a response to both the ecological crisis and economic inequality.
Latest post: Remembering Katherine Cunningham
Morwell, Victoria, Australia
Type: cooperative
Website: https://earthworker.coop
Concepts: worker-cooperatives, economic-democracy, cooperative

Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)
A Johannesburg-based independent non-profit supporting credible elections and strong democratic institutions across Africa — conducting election observation, technical assistance, and governance programming in 16+ African countries since 1996.
Site confirmed active; news article dated 23 June 2026
Latest post: The Complaint She Never Files
Johannesburg, South Africa
Country: ZA
Website: https://www.eisa.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, democracy, accountability-sink

Electoral Reform Society
The UK's oldest and largest electoral reform organisation (founded 1884), campaigning for proportional representation, citizens' assemblies, and democratic renewal.
Latest post: What does an independent commission on electoral reform need to succeed?
London, UK
Country: GB
Website: https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
Concepts: representative-democracy, sortition, deliberative-democracy

Electoral Royal Commission (Australia)
An Australian campaign initiated by Pirate Party Australia calling for a formal Royal Commission into electoral and voting reform — the dedicated site now redirects to the Pirate Party.
Australia
Concepts: representative-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation

Espacio Público
An independent Chilean think tank working on democracy and anti-corruption, innovation and ICT, diversity and human rights, and urban policy — named among the '100 Think Tanks to Watch 2025'.
Latest post: Más rigor, menos ruido
Santiago, Chile
Country: CL
Type: think-tank
Website: https://www.espaciopublico.cl
Concepts: democracy, radical-transparency, deliberative-democracy

Ethelo
A Canadian collective intelligence platform used by 100+ municipalities and the Government of Canada — surfaces the least polarising, most broadly supported outcomes from large group consultations.
Site confirmed active and current, case studies and contact functionality operational
Latest post: Engaged California Program
Vancouver, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://ethelo.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, direct-democracy, participatory-budgeting, consensus-mapping, collective-intelligence

Ette Media
An independent Australian media-literacy outlet founded by journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, teaching audiences to spot spin, unpack headlines, and identify the commercial and political interests behind news coverage — via its podcast 'We Used to be Journos' and multi-platform content.
Confirmed active via official site during landscape research
Sydney, Australia
Type: media
Website: https://www.ettemedia.com/
Concepts: tribal-epistemology

Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)
An anti-corruption and pro-democracy organisation founded by Alexei Navalny — producing high-profile investigations of Kremlin-linked corruption, now operating in exile after being designated 'extremist' (2021) and 'terrorist' (November 2025) by Russian authorities. Led by Yulia Navalnaya following Navalny's death in prison in February 2024.
website up. News at https://fbk.info/en/news/ latest article https://fbk.info/en/news/navalny-archive 4 June 2026 'We are launching the Alexei Navalny Archive'
Homepage fetched 8 Aug 2026; latest news: ACF's Strategy for the State Duma Elections (6 Aug), One Garage Two Billion Rubles investigation (3 Aug), poll on Russians losing faith in Putin's stability (30 Jul 2026)
News page found, no machine-readable date
Moscow, Russia (origin; operates in exile)
Country: RU
Website: https://fbk.info/en
Concepts: accountability-sink, radical-transparency, democracy

FIDE — Federation for Innovation in Democracy
An independent, nonpartisan federation advancing deliberative democratic culture across Europe and North America — training practitioners, designing citizens' assemblies for governments from municipal to international level, and evaluating process quality.
Brussels, Belgium
Country: BE
Type: network
Website: https://fidemocracy.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition

FLACSO-Cuba
The Cuban chapter of the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO), based at the University of Havana — one of the few academic bodies in Cuba publishing empirical research on Cuba's Poder Popular governance system, electoral participation, and local government reform.
website loaded. news in main page. Latest is 4 Jun 2026 'Communiqué for the death of Dr. Raúl Vega-Pacheco Researcher and teacher of FLACSO Mexico'
Havana, Cuba
Country: CU
Website: https://flacso.org/pa%C3%ADs/cuba
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, e-government

Folio Collective
A Melbourne-based, nonpartisan not-for-profit forum that runs small-group "Folio Conversations" — structured public dialogue between diverse citizens and invited expert "Conversation Leaders" on issues of civic and democratic concern — under the explicit mission "Democracy evolves one conversation at a time.
Confirmed active via own website: past events list runs to 29 Jul 2026
Site unreachable (connection error) as of 2026-08-12. Wayback Machine shows last capture Nov 2025 with events scheduled through Dec 2025. May be temporarily down or dormant.
Type: practice
Website: https://folio.org.au
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, collective-intelligence

Foro Nacional por Colombia
A long-established Colombian civil society foundation working on citizen participation, peace accord implementation monitoring, and extractive industry governance — publishes Revista Foro (edition 118), runs anti-vote-wasting campaigns, and operates regional chapters in Bogotá and Cali.
Latest post: Informe Cuatro. Observatorio de la participación ciudadana en la implementación
Bogotá, Colombia
Country: CO
Website: https://foro.org.co
Concepts: democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting

Fundación Solón
A Bolivian research foundation led by Pablo Solón — former government minister and UN ambassador under Morales — developing Vivir Bien (Buen Vivir) as a substantive governance theory, and studying how plurinational constitutional design functions in practice.
Site confirmed active; articles dated through 3 July 2026 on Bolivian mining policy
Latest post: Cultura es lo que queda cuando ya no queda nada
La Paz, Bolivia
Country: BO
Website: https://fundacionsolon.org
Concepts: buen-vivir

Fundacja Stocznia
A Polish foundation working across citizen participation, social innovation, and research — ran Poland's first citizens' assembly (on energy costs) and hosts the country's leading participation practitioners' forum.
Latest post: Wspólne oświadczenie polskich i ukraińskich organizacji, działaczy i działaczek
Warsaw, Poland
Country: PL
Website: https://stocznia.org.pl
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting

g0v (gov zero)
A Taiwanese civic tech community that forks government websites and services to make them more open, usable, and participatory — best known internationally for co-developing the vTaiwan deliberation platform.
website loaded. FYI they have an english version at https://g0v.tw/intl/en/ . In https://g0v.tw/intl/en/event/ there is a calendar where there appears to be various events.
Latest event: Cofacts 查核協作者培訓
Taipei, Taiwan
Country: TW
Website: https://g0v.tw
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, consensus-mapping

Brussels, Belgium
A Belgian civic innovation initiative that pioneered large-scale citizens' assemblies, bringing together randomly selected citizens to deliberate on complex public issues.
website loaded. They got a news section at https://www.g1000.org/en/news where latest is 11.05.2026 'Your Voice Deserves a Seat: Launching Our Campaign for a permanent Citizens’ Assembly'
Latest post: Future Forum Zoet Water
Country: BE
Website: https://www.g1000.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, consensus-mapping

G!LT (Offene Demokratie)
An Austrian open democracy party founded by actor and political activist Roland Düringer, arguing that representative democracy as currently practised is broken and proposing citizen-led alternatives.
Site confirmed active (2024 election content still featured); Wikipedia (de) corroborates party still exists, no evidence of dissolution
Vienna, Austria
Country: AT
Type: party
Website: https://www.gilt.at
Concepts: liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, sortition

Golos
Russia's only independent nationwide election-monitoring organisation for 25 years — training observers, documenting electoral violations, and operating a public 'Map of Violations' platform. Dissolved in July 2025 after its co-chair was convicted under foreign agent legislation.
Moscow, Russia
Country: RU
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.golos.org/
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency

Gorée Institute
A pan-African civil society organisation founded in 1992 on Gorée Island, Senegal — working on political governance and electoral processes, peace consolidation, and democratic dialogue across West Africa, with diplomatic status and a nearly 35-year institutional track record.
Latest post: Lancement de l’étude sur la mise en œuvre de l’Agenda 1325 : après 25 ans de la
Dakar, Senegal
Country: SN
Website: https://goreeinstitut.org
Concepts: democracy, deliberative-democracy, representative-democracy

Governance Hub Africa
A non-partisan regional platform working at the intersection of democratic governance, elections, digital innovation, and policy reform across all 55 AU member states — active through 2026 with programmes on civic empowerment, electoral integrity, and digital democracy.
Nairobi, Kenya
Country: KE
Website: https://governancehubafrica.org
Concepts: democracy, democracy-tools, e-government

Grattan Institute
A Melbourne-based public policy think tank with a democracy and governance program — producing research on electoral integrity, parliamentary reform, campaign finance, and trust in government. Not democracy-specialist; covers a broad range of policy areas.
Site confirmed active and current through July 2026; democracy and public integrity program still listed
Latest post: Reform the system so disabled Australians can have better jobs and fairer wages
Website: https://grattan.edu.au
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink

Healthy Democracy
A US non-profit that designs and runs Citizens' Initiative Reviews — structured deliberative processes where randomly selected citizens evaluate ballot measures and publish findings for the wider electorate.
Website loaded directly; active programs listed (Civic Assemblies, CIR, Deschutes Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness billed as 'world's first tech-assisted assembly'), operating since 2007
Latest post: Want residents, not politicians, to find answers to LA’s thorniest problems? Try
Portland, Oregon, USA
Website: https://healthydemocracy.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, direct-democracy

Helen Clark Foundation
An independent public policy think tank based at AUT Auckland — one of four research streams is 'public policy, governance and the future of democracy,' publishing major work on democratic reform ahead of the 2026 New Zealand general election.
Auckland, New Zealand
Country: NZ
Type: think-tank
Website: https://helenclark.foundation
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy

Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC)
A Washington DC-based organisation advocating for the restoration of democratic governance in Hong Kong — specifically the election-based accountability system promised under One Country, Two Systems, which was effectively dismantled following the 2020 National Security Law.
website loaded. News is https://www.hkdc.us/news where latest is February 10, 2026 'Crossing a New Line: The Conviction of Anna Kwok’s Father'
News page loaded directly; most recent item 'Crossing a New Line: The Conviction of Anna Kwok's Father' dated Feb 10, 2026
Hong Kong (origin; operates in diaspora)
Country: CN
Website: https://www.hkdc.us
Concepts: democracy, liberal-democracy, constitutional-democracy

Institute for China's Democratic Transition (ICDT)
A diaspora research institute focused specifically on constitutional frameworks and transition planning for democratic governance in China — studying separation of powers, institutional design, and comparative lessons from democratic transitions elsewhere.
website loaded. Unsure if active... non of the social media links loaded. No news or blog.
China Journal of Democracy issue archive loaded directly; current 2026 Q3 issue listed (quarterly journal up to date), confirming ongoing publication activity
Latest post: 钟伟锋/张伦/王超华/苏利利/胡平/王天成 | 通向民主之路：军人的角色问题
Beijing, China (origin; operates in diaspora)
Website: https://chinademocrats.org/en
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, democracy, liberal-democracy

Instituto Update
A Brazilian regional platform for political innovation and imagination in the Global South — connecting, strengthening, and producing knowledge to expand political participation, especially for Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ women.
São Paulo, Brazil
Country: BR
Website: https://www.institutoupdate.org.br
Concepts: democracy, deliberative-democracy, representative-democracy

International IDEA
An intergovernmental organisation supporting the sustainability of democratic institutions worldwide — providing comparative data, policy analysis, and technical assistance on elections, constitutions, and democratic governance.
Latest post: Annual Reviews of Global Elections
Stockholm, Sweden
Country: SE
Website: https://www.idea.int
Concepts: democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, constitutional-democracy

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)
A Delhi-based digital rights advocacy organisation defending civil liberties in Indian democracy — challenging internet shutdowns, surveillance, and data protection failures through litigation, policy engagement, and civic literacy since 2016.
Site returned 403 to direct fetch (bot protection); web-search fallback found IFF's Second Strategic Plan (2026-2028) and active March 2026 IT Rules Amendment advocacy, plus reported July 2026 Supreme Court AI Committee submission and Delhi HC litigation
Latest post: IFF files complaints with the NCW and NCPCR on the doxxing of and violent threat
New Delhi, India
Country: IN
Website: https://internetfreedom.in
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, accountability-sink

Involve
A UK charity that develops and promotes public participation and deliberative democracy, advising governments on how to design and run genuine engagement processes.
Latest post: After the May elections: governing on thin mandates
London, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.involve.org.uk
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy

Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)
Israel's leading nonpartisan democracy research institute — publishing annual Israeli Democracy Index, researching electoral reform, parliamentary oversight, judicial independence, civil service reform, and anti-corruption mechanisms since 1991.
Website loaded. News in mainpage. https://en.idi.org.il/hurvitz/2026/ June 2-3, 2026 which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYhEo0j54w ' The Israel Democracy Institute's annual Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society 2026 | Recap '
Website loaded directly; recent publications dated July 2026 including 'Explainer: Basic Law: Torah Study and Its Implications' (July 15, 2026)
Jerusalem, Israel
Country: IL
Website: https://en.idi.org.il
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation

ITS Rio
A Brazilian research institute studying the impact and future of technology on society — with a dedicated 'Democracy and Technology' research track running projects on AI's role in elections, digital policy deliberation, and algorithmic governance.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Website: https://itsrio.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, democracy

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
A Bangalore-based organisation working on urban civic participation and local government reform in India — connecting citizens to municipal processes through ward-level engagement, civic technology, and the I Change My City platform since 2001.
Website loaded directly; Urban Conclave event scheduled for March 18, 2026 and site actively promoting current programs
Bangalore, India
Country: IN
Website: https://www.janaagraha.org
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy, accountability-sink

Join (join.gov.tw)
Taiwan's official government-run public policy participation platform, launched 2015 by the National Development Council with assistance from Digital Minister Audrey Tang's office — the state's own successor to vTaiwan, reaching a broader public than vTaiwan's digital-policy remit ever did.
Site loaded, active proposals visible on homepage across a range of policy areas.
Taipei, Taiwan
Country: TW
Type: government
Website: https://join.gov.tw
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy

Kialo
The world's largest argument-mapping and structured deliberation platform — uses a debate-tree format to organise pros, cons, and sub-arguments. Proprietary and free to use, with a separate education product.
Website loaded. Its a web app. Copyright at bottom mention © Kialo 2026
New York, USA
Website: https://www.kialo.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy

Kongra Star (Women's Congress)
The women's governance organisation of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria — maintaining parallel governance structures at every level of the AANES system, from commune to canton, as a structural check on all decision-making.
Latest post: Şêrîn Abbas :Azadiya Rêber Abdullah Ocalan şertê bingehîn e ji bo serkeftina pêv
Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)
Country: SY
Type: governance
Website: https://kongra-star.org/eng/
Concepts: democratic-confederalism

Labsus — Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà
An Italian association pioneering 'shared administration' (amministrazione condivisa) — a legal and practical framework for citizen-government collaboration pacts to manage common goods, adopted by hundreds of Italian cities.
Latest post: Oltre la rigenerazione urbana: la cura dei custodi come nuovo bene comune
Rome, Italy
Country: IT
Website: https://www.labsus.org
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, democracy-tools

Lamestream
An independent Australian podcast, newsletter, and YouTube show launched in 2025 by journalists Osman Faruqi and Scott Mitchell, examining the collapse of trust in Australian legacy media — ownership consolidation, political interference in newsrooms, and whether independent and influencer-driven media can fill the gap.
Confirmed active via official site and podcast platforms during landscape research
Sydney, Australia
Type: media
Website: https://www.lamestream.com.au/
Concepts: tribal-epistemology

Lateral Economics
An Australian policy economics consultancy led by Nicholas Gruen — advising on economic reform, innovation, and democratic governance, with a particular interest in how institutions can better incorporate citizens' knowledge and deliberation.
Know personally that this is still active.
Website loaded directly and describes current services/team under Nicholas Gruen (CEO); page itself undated so corroborated via web search showing Gruen's Substack/Club Troppo commentary continuing into 2026
Website: https://www.lateraleconomics.com.au
Concepts: isegoria, deliberative-democracy, cognitive-division-of-labour, prediction-markets, citizens-assembly, tribal-epistemology

Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)
An independent Beirut-based think tank founded in 1989 producing policy research and advocacy on governance, political representation, decentralisation, and electoral reform in Lebanon and the Arab region.
Latest press item: القواعد الأميركيّة في مرمى النار (via Daraj Media)
Website loaded directly; most recent article 'Can Lebanon's Social Protection System Withstand Wartime Shocks?' dated July 15, 2026
Beirut, Lebanon
Country: LB
Website: https://www.lcps-lebanon.org
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink

Liquid Democracy e.V.
A Berlin-based non-profit developing open-source digital participation software — creators of Adhocracy and Adhocracy+, and operators of meinBerlin, Berlin's official participatory platform.
Latest post: Halbzeit – 6 Monate Freiwilligendienst bei Liquid Democracy e.V.
Site actively maintained; most recent blog post dated July 7, 2026 (office relocation); adhocracy+, meinBerlin, Zukunft D projects all current
Berlin, Germany
Country: DE
Website: https://liqd.net/en/
Concepts: democracy-tools, liquid-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, direct-democracy

LiquidFeedback
An open-source liquid democracy platform developed in Berlin — best known as the decision-making system used by the German Pirate Party, enabling delegated voting on policy initiatives.
⚠ Status uncertain: site live at liquidfeedback.com (FlexiGuided GmbH, redirects from .org) but no public development news found since 2012. May be stable/maintenance-only. Needs manual check before accepting.
Site live and commercially operating under FlexiGuided GmbH (Berlin), current pricing/installation/maintenance offering; independently listed as active on SoftwareWorld reviews (Jun 2026). No public dev news since 2012 though — status kept active but development activity uncertain
Berlin, Germany
Website: https://liquidfeedback.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, issue-based-direct-democracy

Lismore People's Assembly
A grassroots deliberative assembly in Lismore, NSW, set up by residents in the aftermath of the 2022 floods to practise participatory and deliberative democracy outside the formal political system.
RSS feed's latest entry dated Feb 9, 2026: 'Nearly four years after the NR Floods, the community is given a (small) chance to be heard'
Latest post: Nearly four years after the NR Floods, the community is given a (small) chance t
Lismore, NSW, Australia
Website: https://reclaim.org.au/lpa-home/
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, direct-democracy, democracy

Loomio
A New Zealand worker cooperative building open-source collaborative decision-making software — used by cooperatives, NGOs, and local governments to run structured discussions, proposals, and votes.
website loaded. No certain blog or news. But looks active at least based on vibes.
Wellington, New Zealand
Country: NZ
Website: https://www.loomio.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, liquid-democracy, deliberative-democracy, cooperative, consensus-mapping, worker-cooperatives

Luminate
A global philanthropic organisation funding civic technology, digital rights, independent media, and government transparency — spun out of the Omidyar Network in 2018 with a focus on open and accountable governance.
website loaded. Has a news page at https://luminategroup.com/news-and-insights . Latest seems to be 22 July 2025 'How storytelling can bring us closer to tech justice'
News page fetched 8 Aug 2026; active publishing — recent topics: AI accountability, European AI & Society Fund ($1M grant), strategy shift toward tech accountability, new CEO announced, global polling on AI perceptions
London, UK
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://www.luminategroup.com
Concepts: democracy, radical-transparency, e-government

Make It 16
A youth-led, non-partisan campaign to lower New Zealand's voting age to 16 — won a Supreme Court ruling that the voting age of 18 breaches the Bill of Rights for 16- and 17-year-olds.
Confirmed live (HTTP 200), site current
Wellington, New Zealand
Country: NZ
Type: campaign
Website: https://www.makeit16.org.nz
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy

MASS LBP
A Canadian civic design firm specialising in citizens' assemblies, civic lotteries, and deliberative public engagement — with over 50 reference panels completed for governments and institutions across North America.
website loaded. Uncertain if active. Last social media post at Aug 14, 2023 'We’re aiming to expand our team this fall by adding a new Coordinator at MASS. We are looking for a candidate with the right mix of qualities, skills and experience to help us build our practice and raise our game.'
Latest video: What is MASS LBP?
Toronto, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://www.masslbp.com
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, sortition

McGuinness Institute
A non-partisan New Zealand think tank applying foresight methods to long-term governance challenges — runs Project CivicsNZ (civic education, political agreements, government department strategies) and publishes on public sector governance and institutional design.
Site live and actively publishing as of August 2026
Wellington, New Zealand
Type: think-tank
Website: https://www.mcguinnessinstitute.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy

MEMO 98
A Bratislava-based media monitoring and democratic civic engagement organisation with 25+ years of experience — monitoring media integrity during elections, researching disinformation, and supporting democratic consolidation in post-authoritarian contexts.
website loaded. Blog at https://memo98.sk/articles/blog 20. December 2025 ' Moldova Story: How a Small Republic Resisted Hybrid War '
Site active with news dated through May 2026; recent items include April 2026 formal complaint on public broadcaster impartiality and press freedom monitoring
Bratislava, Slovakia
Country: SK
Website: https://memo98.sk
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency

Memorial
Russia's best-known human rights and historical memory organisation — documenting Soviet-era repression and ongoing abuses for 35 years. Liquidated by Russian courts in December 2021 and designated 'extremist' in April 2026; continues operating in exile through its international chapters, including Germany.
website loaded. It's german... but this looks like news https://www.memorial.de/nachrichten wehere latest news is 04.06.2026 'Asat Miftachov wird im Lager gefoltert'
Moscow, Russia (liquidated; international chapters active)
Country: RU
Website: https://www.memorial.de
Concepts: accountability-sink, democracy, radical-transparency

MieuxVoter
A French association advocating for Majority Judgment voting — an alternative electoral method where voters grade each candidate rather than pick one, aimed at reducing strategic voting and better reflecting collective preferences.
Latest press item: Bilan des Primaires 2022
Press page confirms recent coverage through Aug 29, 2025 (own post: Bilan des Primaires 2022) plus media citations (Libération, France Info); Majority Judgment advocacy focus confirmed on homepage
Scraper only finds URL-embedded dates; page shows 2025 items
France
Country: FR
Type: civil-society
Website: https://mieuxvoter.fr
Concepts: democracy-tools, majority-judgment, e-government

MosaicLab
An Australian deliberative democracy practice that designs and facilitates public deliberation processes — citizens' juries, panels, and assemblies — for governments and public institutions.
website loaded. Latest blog post is on December 8, 2025 'SHIFTS SHAPING ENGAGEMENT NEXT YEAR'
Site active; recent posts include Victorian Government engagement inquiry analysis and a 2025 year-end/2026 trends post covering AI integration and representativeness in deliberative practice
Website: https://mosaiclab.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, consensus-mapping

Movilizatorio
A Colombian social innovation laboratory with global reach — transforming ideas into actions and apathy into social and environmental movements. Won the Schwab Foundation Award at the World Economic Forum (2025).
Site live and actively publishing as of August 2026
Bogotá, Colombia
Country: CO
Website: https://www.movilizatorio.org
Concepts: democracy-tools, deliberative-democracy, democracy

Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG)
Israel's main anti-corruption and rule-of-law watchdog — strategic litigation, Supreme Court petitions, and civic education since 1990. Has recovered billions in public funds and led legal challenges against the 2023 judicial overhaul.
Site active with current campaigns: opposing Attorney General dismissal, equal conscription law, and demanding a State Commission of Inquiry into Oct 7 failures; confirms ongoing watchdog/litigation activity
Latest post: התנועה לאיכות השלטון דורשת מהרמטכ"ל להקים ועדת בדיקה לנתוני גיוס החרדים השגויים
Tel Aviv, Israel
Country: IL
Website: https://mqg.org.il/en
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency

mySociety
A UK civic technology charity that builds digital tools enabling citizens to hold governments accountable — including TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, and WhatDoTheyKnow, deployed in over 40 countries.
Latest post: New report! Supporting Participation: Building an effective European civic tech
London, UK
Website: https://www.mysociety.org
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, democracy, accountability-sink

NAMFREL (National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections)
The Philippines' independent citizen election watchdog — founded in 1983, widely regarded as the world's first citizen-led election monitoring organisation, with 250,000+ volunteers conducting parallel vote counts and election observation.
Manila, Philippines
Country: PH
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://namfrel.com.ph

newDemocracy Foundation
An independent, non-partisan Australian research and development organisation that designs and runs real-world deliberative democracy trials using randomly selected citizens.
Latest post: Final report: Upper House Inquiry into Community Consultation Practices.
Website: https://www.newdemocracy.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, isegoria, cognitive-division-of-labour

NewVote
An Australian civic technology institute combining direct, deliberative, and representative democracy — empowering people on specific issues and surfacing the informed 'will of the people' to elected governments.
website loaded. But social media is last noted in twitter May 16, 2020 https://x.com/newvote/status/1261440493004615681 . So uncertain on newvote status
Website live, confirmed active civic-tech institute. Content largely references 2018-2019 activity (UQ Student Voice pilot); no evidence of shutdown.
Latest post: How's SpeakUp @ the University of Queensland going?
Brisbane, Australia
Website: https://newvote.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, liquid-democracy, e-government

None of the Above Party (Canada)
A Canadian provincial party (Ontario) that elects independent MPPs not bound by party discipline — advocating the 3Rs of direct democracy: Referendum, Recall, and Responsible Government laws.
website loaded. https://nota.ca/news/ has January 27, 2025 'None of the Above Party Calls for Referendum on Trump Tariffs, Strategic Voting to Defeat Ford Government in Election'
Website live and actively campaigning; Jan 2025 posts on Ontario provincial election, candidate pages current.
Latest post: None of the Above Party Calls for Referendum on Trump Tariffs, Strategic Voting
Ontario, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://nota.ca
Concepts: direct-democracy, representative-democracy, liquid-democracy

NZ Council for Civil Liberties
An independent watchdog defending democratic rights and civil liberties in Aotearoa — active participant in New Zealand's Open Government Partnership civil society engagement, with a dense programme of parliamentary submissions on bills affecting democratic participation, freedom of expression, and protest rights.
Site live and actively publishing as of August 2026
Website: https://nzccl.org.nz
Concepts: democracy, liberal-democracy

Online Direct Democracy Australia
An Australian direct democracy electoral organisation that stood candidates on a platform of replacing the representative system with online direct citizen voting — the domain is now squatted.
Australia
Concepts: direct-democracy, e-government, liquid-democracy

OpenAustralia Foundation
An Australian civic technology charity building tools that help citizens understand and engage with their parliament and government.
Latest post: Become a Fundraising Champion for Civic Tech
Website: https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, accountability-sink

Open Government Partnership — Australia
Australia's participation in the international Open Government Partnership, producing a National Action Plan 2016–18 with commitments on transparency, citizen empowerment, anti-corruption, and technology in governance — the dedicated site is no longer live.
Type: governance
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ogpau.pmc.gov.au
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, constitutional-democracy

Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR)
A Brazilian organisation promoting open data, public transparency, civic technology, and open knowledge — flagship projects include Querido Diário (crowdsourcing municipal gazettes), the Open Data Index, Parlametria (Congress tracking), and Perfil Político (candidate profiles).
Website: https://ok.org.br
Concepts: democracy-tools, radical-transparency, e-government

Open Society Foundations
The world's largest private funder of independent groups working for rights, equity, and justice — founded by George Soros in 1979, with grants, fellowships, and national foundations active across 100+ countries.
website loaded. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom has May 20, 2026 'Open Society Foundations Launch $300 Million Initiative to Advance Economic Security and Defend Civil Liberties in the United States'
New York, USA
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org
Concepts: democracy, radical-transparency, direct-democracy

Civil Network OPORA
Ukraine's leading non-partisan election observation organisation — monitoring elections since 2006, conducting parliamentary oversight, and co-founding the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE).
Website confirmed active, with recent reports on voter registration amid wartime migration and a January 2026 analysis of the challenges of holding a referendum on territorial changes.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Country: UA
Website: https://oporaua.org/en

Participatory Budgeting Project
A North American nonprofit that has pioneered the spread of participatory budgeting in the US and Canada — helping governments, schools, and institutions engage over 740,000 people in directly deciding how to spend public funds.
Latest post: PB Grows in New Jersey
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Website: https://www.participatorybudgeting.org
Concepts: participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy

Participedia
A global open-access database and research platform cataloguing thousands of participatory democracy cases, methods, and organisations from around the world.
website loaded. News page points to https://participediaproject.medium.com/ where latest is Jan 6, 2026 'Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports'
Latest post: Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports
Vancouver, Canada
Website: https://participedia.net
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy, democracy, meta-organisation

People Decide
An Australian participatory democracy platform and political party of independents allowing citizens to vote on, create, and contribute to national laws and local government decisions online.
Australia
Concepts: direct-democracy, e-government, liquid-democracy

People Powered
A global hub for participatory democracy — connecting government practitioners, researchers, and advocates through mentorship, training, accelerator programmes, and a resource centre. Serves as a membership organisation for the participatory democracy field worldwide.
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Website: https://www.peoplepowered.org
Concepts: participatory-budgeting, citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, democracy-tools

Perludem
An Indonesian independent nonprofit founded in 2005 — a leading civil society voice on electoral integrity, democratic reform, and electoral system design in the world's third-largest democracy.
Jakarta, Indonesia
Country: ID
Website: https://perludem.or.id
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation

Pirate Party Australia
An Australian political party focused on digital rights, civil liberties, and democratic reform, including initiating the Electoral Royal Commission campaign to investigate Australian voting reform. Deregistered as an independent AEC-registered party in 2021 and now runs as a distinct internal grouping within the Fusion Party — retaining its own membership and infrastructure, with its members also counted as Fusion Party members for electoral registration.
Known personally to be active
Status ambiguity resolved by a DOD member with direct knowledge: PPAU deregistered as an independent AEC party in 2021 but continues as a distinct internal grouping within the Fusion Party (own membership, own infrastructure); members also count as Fusion Party members for AEC registration purposes. Kept active.
Latest post: Pirate Party Australia raises alarm over miscarriage of justice in David McBride
Website: https://pirateparty.org.au
Concepts: liquid-democracy, issue-based-direct-democracy, radical-transparency

Pol.is
An open-source consensus mapping platform used in large-scale public deliberations — participants rate statements rather than debating, and machine learning surfaces the points of genuine agreement across thousands of respondents.
website loaded. No obvious news pages. But copy right is set to © 2026 on the page.
Seattle, USA
Website: https://pol.is
Concepts: democracy-tools, consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly

Prediki
An Austrian prediction market platform that aggregates collective intelligence on political and policy questions — users make structured predictions with reasons, and the system surfaces the informed consensus.
website active. News link . Last is at Vienna, 30 September 2022 'Renewed Controversy About Election Polls'
Prediction market platform live with active questions and participant engagement; footer copyright dated 2012-2022 but platform is operating.
Vienna, Austria
Country: AT
Website: https://www.prediki.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, prediction-markets, cognitive-division-of-labour, isegoria

PRS Legislative Research
A New Delhi-based independent legislative research institute supporting parliamentarians and informing citizens — tracking bills, budgets, and MP activity for India's Parliament and state legislatures since 2005.
website loaded. Has blog in main page under a tab. Last one is at May 20, 2024 'A note of gratitude to Mr. N. Vaghul
Website live with July 2026 content; Monsoon session tracking, active blog and bill commentary.
New Delhi, India
Website: https://prsindia.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, radical-transparency, accountability-sink

Proportional Representation Society of Australia
Australia's oldest electoral reform organisation, advocating for proportional representation via the Single Transferable Vote — the system already used in Tasmania, the ACT, and the Australian Senate.
website loaded. News page at https://www.prsa.org.au/latest01.htm 2026-05a 'LETTER ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION OUTCOME TO ALL SA MPs:'
Website live; quarterly newsletter (Quota Notes), active social media, ongoing electoral-reform advocacy.
Latest post: Orders in Council gazetted for single-councillor wards have taken effect
Website: https://www.prsa.org.au
Concepts: mixed-member-proportional-representation, representative-democracy, direct-democracy

People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)
A major South Korean civil society organisation founded in 1994 — a pillar of Korean democratic accountability with ~13,000 members, monitoring the judiciary, legislature, and executive, and driving public-interest law, economic justice, and peace advocacy.
Confirmed live (HTTP 200), site current
Seoul, South Korea
Country: KR
Website: https://www.peoplepower21.org
Concepts: democracy, deliberative-democracy, radical-transparency

RadicalxChange Foundation
A US-founded international nonprofit and movement advancing 'Plurality' — mechanisms like quadratic voting and quadratic funding that aim to make democratic and economic participation more expressive than one-person-one-vote. National-scale adoption in Taiwan and Japan's Team Mirai; a Melbourne chapter is forming as of August 2026.
Confirmed active via own website and an upcoming Melbourne chapter launch event (27 Aug 2026).
Confirmed live (HTTP 200), site current
San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Website: https://www.radicalxchange.org
Concepts: collective-intelligence, participatory-budgeting

Referendum Council (Australia)
A formal Australian advisory body (2016–17) tasked with consulting on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — its process produced the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Concepts: citizens-assembly, constitutional-democracy, democracy

Rwanda Governance Board (RGB)
Rwanda's government body for governance research and oversight — publishing annual governance scorecards, studying decentralisation and citizen participation, and administering the Ubudehe community classification system. Included for its governance design research, not as an independent watchdog of the Kagame government.
website loaded. News page at https://www.rgb.rw/updates/news . Latest news Friday, 29 May, 2026 'Former Ethipia Prime Minister H.E. Hailemariam visits RGB'
Website live with May 2026 news (RGB leadership meetings, governance commemorations).
Kigali, Rwanda
Country: RW
Website: https://www.rgb.rw
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy, citizens-assembly

SecureVote
An Australian blockchain voting platform providing secure, scalable, and anonymous digital voting for governments, organisations, and token-based ecosystems. Now defunct — domain squatted.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://secure.vote
Concepts: end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system, e-government

Sitra
The Finnish Innovation Fund — a public foundation under parliamentary supervision with a dedicated Democracy work track that renews democracy and strengthens citizen engagement through democratic innovations and technologies.
Helsinki, Finland
Country: FI
Type: foundation
Website: https://www.sitra.fi/en/
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, democracy-tools, e-government

SoCentral
A Norwegian social innovation platform that initiates, coordinates, and drives collaborative projects for sustainable societal development — including Norway's first civil-society-initiated national citizens' assemblies on the use of national wealth and sustainable consumption.
Oslo, Norway
Country: NO
Type: foundation
Website: https://www.socentral.no
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, cooperative

Sortition Foundation (Australia)
The Australian chapter of the UK-based Sortition Foundation, running monthly community meetings and providing sortition recruitment services for Australian democratic processes — including Victorian council deliberations, federal electorate pilots, and national citizen assemblies.
website loaded. News page at https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates 26 February, 2026 'Frontiers of Democratic Lotteries Workshop'
Parent org (Sortition Foundation) confirmed active; Australia chapter page returns 403 to automated fetch (Cloudflare bot-block) but is indexed and referenced live; monthly Zoom meetings ongoing per site copy.
News page unreachable
Preston, Victoria
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly

Sortition Foundation
A UK-based organisation advocating for sortition (random selection) in democratic institutions — running the sortition process for European Citizens' Panels, campaigning to replace the UK House of Lords with a citizens' chamber, and building an open-source lottery platform.
Latest update: We're looking for a new Independent Director (18 June, 2026)
Updates page fetched 8 Aug 2026; most recent post 18 Jun 2026 (hiring Independent Director); previous post 26 Feb 2026 (Frontiers of Democratic Lotteries Workshop)
News page unreachable
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.sortitionfoundation.org
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, representative-democracy

McKinnon (formerly Susan McKinnon Foundation)
A non-partisan Australian foundation working across all sides of politics to find common ground and practical pathways on major national challenges, with a focus on democratic and public sector reform. Rebranded from Susan McKinnon Foundation to McKinnon in 2025.
website loaded. https://mckinnon.co/insights is it's news page. Latest news is 03 JUN 2026 'McKinnon Political Leader of the Year 2025 - Federal – Shortlisted nominees'
Confirmed active; organisation rebranded from 'Susan McKinnon Foundation' to 'McKinnon' in 2025 (site title, LinkedIn, ACNC records). Updated title/summary to reflect rebrand.
Latest post: Insights
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://mckinnon.co
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, citizens-assembly

Team Mirai
A Japanese political party founded in 2025 by AI engineer Takahiro Anno, advocating e-democracy and digital democracy — using technology platforms to enable direct citizen input into legislative processes. Won 1 Upper House seat in 2025 and 11 Lower House seats in the February 2026 general election.
Tokyo, Japan
Country: JP
Type: political-party
Website: https://team-mir.ai
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, liquid-democracy, direct-democracy

TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society)
The civilian governance coordination body of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) — an umbrella of communal councils, civil society organisations, and professional bodies implementing democratic confederalism in an active conflict zone.
Website loaded at https://tev-dem.com/ . News is in front page. Latest is Feb 21, 2026 ' roja Zimanê Dayîk A Cîhanî li hemû gelan pîroz be û Hêviya me ye ku bibe roja vekirina dergihê azadiya gelên Sûriyayê û aramiya wan.'
Website (tev-dem.com) live, publishing through Feb 2026. Updated context note: Jan 2026 Damascus offensive against SDF-held territory + Jan 30 2026 ceasefire/integration agreement is phasing AANES civil institutions into Syrian state structures — governance model description may not fully reflect current on-the-ground reality.
Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)
Country: SY
Website: —
Concepts: democratic-confederalism

They Vote For You
Converts Australian parliamentary voting records into plain-English histories for every MP and Senator, run by the OpenAustralia Foundation.
Confirmed active via OpenAustralia Foundation project page
Website: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au
Concepts: democracy-tools, radical-transparency, accountability-sink, e-government

Transparency International New Zealand (TINZ)
The New Zealand chapter of the global anti-corruption coalition — running the National Integrity System assessment, campaigning for lobbying transparency, political donation reform, limits on parliamentary urgency, and beneficial ownership registers.
Website: https://www.transparency.org.nz
Concepts: radical-transparency, democracy

Transparencia por Colombia
The Colombian chapter of Transparency International — running the Monitor Ciudadano de la Corrupción (open data and analytics platform), tracking electoral campaign financing in real time, and working across all 32 departments on corruption prevention and democratic integrity.
Website: https://transparenciacolombia.org.co
Concepts: radical-transparency, democracy

Ushahidi
A Kenyan-founded nonprofit (2008) that builds open-source crowdsourcing and crisis-mapping tools — originally created to map post-election violence in Kenya, now used for election monitoring, human rights documentation, and civic reporting worldwide.
Website live; ongoing blog posts and active climate/governance project pages.
Latest post: The End; and the Means to that End (Angela Oduor Lungati)
Nairobi, Kenya
Country: KE
Website: https://www.ushahidi.com
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, radical-transparency, collective-intelligence

Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)
Vietnam's constitutionally mandated consultative umbrella body — 50+ member organisations representing professional, religious, ethnic, and social groups — structurally analogous to China's CPPCC, operating under the Vietnamese Communist Party's single-party framework.
website loaded. News page in front page. Latest news 07/06/2026 'Khai mạc phiên thứ nhất Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc Hội Nông dân Việt Nam lần thứ IX: Gần 600 đại biểu chính thức về dự'
Website live with July 2026 content; homepage timestamp and news dated July 18-19 2026.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Country: VN
Website: https://mattran.org.vn
Concepts: vanguardism

Vote Monitor
An open-source election observation platform built by Code for Romania — allows accredited observers to submit real-time field reports from polling stations, replacing paper forms with structured mobile data collection.
Site defunct; last live Wayback capture ~2022. Code for Romania project — check code4.ro for successor activity
Bucharest, Romania
Country: RO
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://votemonitor.org/
Concepts: democracy-tools, e-government, radical-transparency, end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system

vTaiwan
A Taiwanese open-consultation platform (launched 2015) that uses Pol.is-based deliberation to surface consensus on contested policy. Influential in its early phase but never legally mandated; now continues as a volunteer-driven civic lab as the state's participation efforts moved to other platforms.
website loaded. https://www.vtaiwan.tw/newsletters is it's news page. Latest is June 5, 2026 'vTaiwan Newsletter Issue Zero'. Its a mirror of their substack located at
Taipei, Taiwan
Country: TW
Website: https://vtaiwan.tw
Concepts: consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy, radical-transparency, e-government

We Do Democracy
The Nordic region's leading deliberative democracy consultancy — designing, facilitating, and evaluating citizens' assemblies, participatory strategies, and democratic innovation for municipalities, governments, and organisations across Denmark, Norway, and the Nordics.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Country: DK
Type: consultancy
Website: https://www.wedodemocracy.dk
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition

WeCollect
A Swiss civic-tech platform operated by the Stiftung für direkte Demokratie (Foundation for Direct Democracy) — helps citizens launch initiatives and referendums and collect digital signatures. 915,557 signatures gathered across 123 campaigns since 2015.
Basel, Switzerland
Country: CH
Website: https://www.wecollect.ch
Concepts: democracy-tools, direct-democracy, e-government

Your Party
A UK political party founded in 2025, notable for using sortition (via the Sortition Foundation) to select delegates to its founding conference — producing a statistically representative membership sample balanced by gender, region, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics.
Website live; article:modified_time 2026-07-16, active UK political party.
Latest tweet: police accountability post
London, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.yourparty.uk
Concepts: sortition, citizens-assembly