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.
Latest post: Corner and connect
directly known to be operating by a dod person
Melbourne, Australia
Status: active
Country: AU
Type: cooperative
Website: https://www.888causeway.coop
Concepts: cooperative, 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.
Latest post: Pour la première Démocratie française : un entretien avec Baya Bellanger sur son
website loaded. They got https://anouslademocratie.fr/articles/ but it differ from rss feed...
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.
Latest post: GOVERNMENT MUST LEGISLATE IBAC REFORM NOW, NOT AFTER THE ELECTION
website loaded. Saw them meet in person
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.
No feed found
website is present and loaded. Last report released by them is at 5 June, 2026
New Delhi, India
Country: IN
Type: advocacy
Website: https://adrindia.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency

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: Many Africans see justice system as unequal, costly, and slow, Afrobarometer 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.
Latest news page scraped
RSS feed active
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.
Latest post: Australians support stronger whistleblower laws, while Labor drags its feet
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.
Server still up (sitemap detected)
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
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
No feed found
News page unreachable
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.
No feed found
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.
Server still up (sitemap detected)
was definitely active last year, as noted by a dod member
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 no. 7 April 2026
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.
Server still up (sitemap detected)
They got a blog at https://www.cddwestafrica.org/blog/ which has a post on 4 June 2026 : Reconciliation Is Not Deradicalisation: Rethinking the Role of Faith Community Leaders in Operation Safe Corridor
News page found, no machine-readable date
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 is up. No news section, but still looks active.
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: RASI convoca al XVII Encuentro Constructores de Paz bajo el lema “Democratizació
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.
https://www.mmzy.org.cn/mmyw/default.aspx is it's news section. 8th April 2026 ' NLD "political participation for the public, practical for the people" theme education start-up meeting held'
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.
Page last modified (from sitemap)
Website loaded. Looks normal. No obvious activity indicator or news section tho.
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.
Latest post: The Power of Citizen Engagement: Why “Your Priorities” is the World’s Leading Pl
Unsure how to read the blog section for year last posted. However https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app has activity 3 weeks ago.
Reykjavík, Iceland
Country: IS
Type: platform
Website: https://citizens.is
Concepts: 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: UK
Website:
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition

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.
Page last modified (from sitemap)
personally know it exist and still running
Type: civic tech
Website: https://www.codeforaustralia.org
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency

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.
Latest post: The second national Community Independents Convention, August 2022
website loaded. Last convention at 2025
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.
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website loaded. Last news at april 4 2025 "Esmeraldas derramada: una historia de Las Piedras"
Quito, Ecuador
Country: EC
Type: governance
Website: https://conaie.org
Concepts: buen-vivir

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: Version release 2.5.0!
Madrid, Spain
Country: ES
Type: platform
Website: https://consuldemocracy.org
Concepts: 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

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.
Website loaded. Latest news is 2026-06-02 'Xi encourages Chinese children to strive for better future'
Beijing, China
Country: CN
Type: government
Website: http://en.cppcc.gov.cn
Concepts: vanguardism, 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: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, e-government, citizens-assembly

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: 2026 elections user feedback
Birmingham, UK
Country: GB
Type: civic-tech
Website: https://democracyclub.org.uk
Concepts: 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: 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
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Country: AR
Website: https://democracy.earth
Concepts: 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.
Latest post: Government must act immediately to release all Australian citizens abducted by I
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.
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

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.
Latest post: Housing Amplifcation
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!'
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
News page found, no machine-readable date
France
Country: FR
Website: https://www.democratieouverte.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, direct-democracy, e-government

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.
Country: EU
Type: movement
Website: https://diem25.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, democracy, liberal-democracy

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
St. Paul, Minnesota, US
Country: US
Type: ngo
Website: https://e-democracy.org
Concepts: 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: Solidarity in action: Colin Long on a lifetime of co-operation, climate justice
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.
Latest post: In the Upcoming Local Government Elections, Low Voter Turnout may be the Biggest
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: Polling Breakdown: What did the UK polls say in May 2026?
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
Status: inactive
Concepts: representative-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation

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.
Latest post: Engaged California Program
Vancouver, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://ethelo.com
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy, participatory-budgeting, consensus-mapping

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'
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

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

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.
Latest post: Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y la Defensoría del Pueblo, demandan la aper
La Paz, Bolivia
Country: BO
Website: https://fundacionsolon.org
Concepts: buen-vivir

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.
Latest post: Future Forum Zoet Water
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'
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.
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

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.
Latest post: Tough decisions needed on gas
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.
Latest post: Want residents, not politicians, to find answers to LA’s thorniest problems? Try
Portland, Oregon, USA
Country: US
Type: practice
Website: https://healthydemocracy.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, direct-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'
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.
Beijing, China (origin; operates in diaspora)
Website: https://chinademocrats.org/en
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, democracy, liberal-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: Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Role of Courts and Lawyers in Constitutional
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.
Latest post: RTI Response Reveals that the Viksit Bharat Sampark Whatsapp Initiative was Allo
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
Country: UK
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 '
Jerusalem, Israel
Country: IL
Website: https://en.idi.org.il
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation

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.
Latest post: Too Many Cooks in the Urban Services Kitchen
Bangalore, India
Country: IN
Website: https://www.janaagraha.org
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy, accountability-sink

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: 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 Reşîd: Misogerkirina maf û temsîliyeta jinan di pêvajoya entegrasyonê de p
Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)
Country: SY
Type: governance
Website: https://kongra-star.org/eng/
Concepts: democratic-confederalism

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.
Sydney, Australia
Website: https://www.lateraleconomics.com.au
Concepts: isegoria, deliberative-democracy, cognitive-division-of-labour, prediction-markets, citizens-assembly

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)
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.
Berlin, Germany
Country: DE
Website: https://liqd.net/en/
Concepts: 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.
Berlin, Germany
Website: https://liquidfeedback.com
Concepts: liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, issue-based-direct-democracy

Lismore People's Assembly
A grassroots deliberative assembly in Lismore, NSW, set up in the aftermath of the 2022 floods to give residents a direct voice in decisions shaping the city's future.
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: liquid-democracy, deliberative-democracy, cooperative, consensus-mapping

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'
London, UK
Country: GB
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://www.luminategroup.com
Concepts: democracy, radical-transparency, e-government

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.
Latest video: What is MASS LBP?
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.'
Toronto, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://www.masslbp.com
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, sortition

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 '
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
Scraper only finds URL-embedded dates; page shows 2025 items
France
Country: FR
Type: civil-society
Website: https://mieuxvoter.fr
Concepts: 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'
Website: https://mosaiclab.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, consensus-mapping

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.
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.
Sydney, Australia
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.
Latest post: How's SpeakUp @ the University of Queensland going?
website loaded. But social media is last noted in twitter May 16, 2020 https://x.com/newvote/status/1261440493004615681 . So uncertain on newvote status
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.
Latest post: None of the Above Party Calls for Referendum on Trump Tariffs, Strategic Voting
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'
Ontario, Canada
Country: CA
Website: https://nota.ca
Concepts: direct-democracy, representative-democracy, liquid-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 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 loaded. https://oporaua.org/en/announce has May 20, 2026 'REPORT. Dialogue with the Ukrainian Community in Ireland'
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.
Latest post: Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports
website loaded. News page points to https://participediaproject.medium.com/ where latest is Jan 6, 2026 'Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports'
Vancouver, Canada
Website: https://participedia.net
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy, democracy

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

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.
Latest post: Pirate Party Australia raises alarm over miscarriage of justice in David McBride
Known personally to be active
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: 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'
Vienna, Austria
Country: AT
Website: https://www.prediki.com
Concepts: 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
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.
Latest post: Orders in Council gazetted for single-councillor wards have taken effect
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: https://www.prsa.org.au
Concepts: mixed-member-proportional-representation, representative-democracy, direct-democracy

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'
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

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'
News page unreachable
Preston, Victoria
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly

Sortition Foundation
A UK-based organisation advocating for the use of random selection (sortition) in democratic institutions, most prominently campaigning to replace the House of Lords with a randomly selected citizens' chamber.
website loaded. https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates is the news page. 26 February, 2026 'Frontiers of Democratic Lotteries Workshop'
News page unreachable
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Country: UK
Website: https://www.sortitionfoundation.org
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, representative-democracy

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.
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'
Latest post: Insights
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://mckinnon.co
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, citizens-assembly

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.'
Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)
Country: SY
Website: —
Concepts: democratic-confederalism

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.
Latest post: The End; and the Means to that End (Angela Oduor Lungati)
Nairobi, Kenya
Country: KE
Website: https://www.ushahidi.com
Concepts: 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'
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: 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

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.
Latest tweet: police accountability post
London, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.yourparty.uk
Concepts: sortition, citizens-assembly