Democracy Landscape
Designing Open Democracy — 118 organisations — generated 2026-06-15T23:57:31Z

888 Co-operative Causeway
Status: active
Country: AU
Type: cooperative
Website: https://www.888causeway.coop
Last activity: 2026-06-07 (manual)
Concepts: cooperative, worker-cooperatives, economic-democracy
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.

À Nous La Démocratie!
Status: active
Country: FR
Type: movement
Website: https://anouslademocratie.fr/
Last activity: 2025-07-15 (manual)
Concepts: direct-democracy, sortition, citizens-assembly
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.

Accountability Round Table
Status: active
Country: AU
Type: advocacy
Website: http://accountabilityrt.org
Last activity: 2026-06-08 (manual)
Concepts: accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy, liberal-democracy
A non-partisan Australian group of citizens — academics, lawyers, politicians, journalists — working to improve standards of accountability, transparency, and democratic integrity in Australian governments.

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)
Country: IN
Type: advocacy
Website: https://adrindia.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency
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.

Afrobarometer
Country: GH
Type: research
Website: https://www.afrobarometer.org
Last activity: 2026-06-02 (rss)
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, liberal-democracy
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.

AMAN – Coalition for Accountability and Integrity
Country: PS
Type: advocacy
Website: https://www.aman-palestine.org/en
Last activity: 2026-06-05 (rss)
Concepts: accountability-sink, democracy, radical-transparency
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.

The Australia Institute — Democracy & Accountability Program
Country: AU
Type: research
Website:
Last activity: 2026-06-04 (rss)
Concepts: accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy, representative-democracy
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.

Australian Democracy Network
Website: https://australiandemocracy.org.au
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Australian Democrats
Type: party
Website: https://democrats.org.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, mixed-member-proportional-representation, sortition
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.

BERSIH 2.0
Country: MY
Website: https://bersih.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, constitutional-democracy
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.

br/acc (World Transparency Graph)
Status: inactive
Country: BR
Type: civic tech
Website:
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, accountability-sink
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.

Build a Ballot
Type: civic tech
Website: https://www.buildaballot.org.au
Concepts: representative-democracy, e-government
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.

Citizen Assemblies for South Australia (CAfSA)
Website: https://cafsa.org.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition
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.

Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD)
Website: https://canberra-alliance.org.au
Concepts: direct-democracy, citizens-assembly, cooperative
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.

Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD West Africa)
Country: NG
Type: research
Website: https://www.cddwestafrica.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG)
Website: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/cddgg
Concepts: citizens-assembly, sortition
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.

Centro Gumilla
Country: VE
Website: https://gumilla.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

China Democratic League (CDL)
Country: CN
Type: party
Website: https://www.mmzy.org.cn
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy
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.

CIDECI-Unitierra
Country: MX
Type: education
Website: https://unitierra.org
Concepts: democratic-confederalism
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.

Citizen OS
Country: EE
Type: platform
Website: https://citizenos.com
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, radical-transparency
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.

Citizens Foundation
Country: IS
Type: platform
Website: https://citizens.is
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, isegoria
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.

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

Code for Australia
Type: civic tech
Website: https://www.codeforaustralia.org
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency
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.

Community Independents Project
Website: https://www.communityindependentsproject.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador)
Country: EC
Type: governance
Website: https://conaie.org
Concepts: buen-vivir
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.

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

Conversations at the Crossroads
Website: https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au
Last activity: 2026-06-30 (scrape)
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, democracy
An independent Melbourne-based civic network running deliberative democracy initiatives, including large-scale citizens assemblies and a national program to scale deliberative participation.

Co-operative Bonds
Type: practice
Website: https://bonds.coop
Concepts: cooperative, economic-democracy, workplace-democracy, community-business
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.

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
Country: CN
Type: government
Website: http://en.cppcc.gov.cn
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy
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.

Darkenu
Country: IL
Website: https://darkenu.org.il/en
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Decidim
Country: ES
Website: https://decidim.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, e-government, citizens-assembly
An open-source participatory democracy framework used by 400+ governments and organisations worldwide — citizen proposals, participatory budgeting, consultations, and collaborative legislation.

Democracy Club
Country: GB
Type: civic-tech
Website: https://democracyclub.org.uk
Concepts: e-government, representative-democracy
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.

DEMOCRACY Deutschland
Country: DE
Type: civil-society
Website: https://democracy-app.de
Concepts: e-government, representative-democracy
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.

Democracy Earth Foundation
Country: AR
Website: https://democracy.earth
Concepts: liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, decentralized-autonomous-organization
An open-source civic technology foundation building quadratic voting and sovereign identity tools — aiming to make democratic participation internet-native and censorship-resistant.

Democracy in Colour
Website: https://democracyincolour.org
Concepts: democracy, representative-democracy, isegoria
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.

Democracy International
Country: DE
Website: https://www.democracy-international.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, citizens-assembly, sortition
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.

DemocracyNext
Country: EU
Website: https://www.demnext.org
Last activity: 2026-03-27 (scrape)
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, isegoria
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.

Democracy Technologies
Country: AT
Website: https://democracy-technologies.org
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, e-government, democracy, direct-democracy
A curated database and research initiative mapping the global landscape of democratic innovation tools — tracking 200+ platforms across participatory, deliberative, and digital democracy.

DemocracyCo
Type: practice
Website: https://www.democracyco.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, consensus-mapping
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.

DemocracyLab
Country: US
Website: https://www.democracylab.org
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy
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.

Démocratie Ouverte
Country: FR
Website: https://www.democratieouverte.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, direct-democracy, e-government
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.

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

E-Democracy
Country: US
Type: ngo
Website: https://e-democracy.org
Last activity: —
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, e-government, direct-democracy
A Minnesota-based nonprofit (founded 1994) pioneering online civic participation — running neighbourhood discussion forums that connect residents directly with local elected officials.

Earthworker Cooperative
Type: cooperative
Website: https://earthworker.coop
Concepts: worker-cooperatives, economic-democracy, 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.

Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)
Country: ZA
Website: https://www.eisa.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Electoral Reform Society
Country: GB
Website: https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
Concepts: representative-democracy, sortition, deliberative-democracy
The UK's oldest and largest electoral reform organisation (founded 1884), campaigning for proportional representation, citizens' assemblies, and democratic renewal.

Electoral Royal Commission (Australia)
Status: inactive
Last activity: —
Concepts: representative-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation
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.

Ethelo
Country: CA
Website: https://ethelo.com
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy, participatory-budgeting, consensus-mapping
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.

Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)
Country: RU
Website: https://fbk.info/en
Concepts: accountability-sink, radical-transparency, democracy
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.

FLACSO-Cuba
Country: CU
Website: https://flacso.org/pa%C3%ADs/cuba
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, e-government
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.

Fundación Solón
Country: BO
Website: https://fundacionsolon.org
Concepts: buen-vivir
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.

g0v (gov zero)
Country: TW
Website: https://g0v.tw
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, consensus-mapping
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.

Country: BE
Website: https://www.g1000.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, consensus-mapping
A Belgian civic innovation initiative that pioneered large-scale citizens' assemblies, bringing together randomly selected citizens to deliberate on complex public issues.

G!LT (Offene Demokratie)
Country: AT
Type: party
Website: https://www.gilt.at
Concepts: liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, sortition
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.

Golos
Country: RU
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.golos.org/
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency
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.

Grattan Institute
Website: https://grattan.edu.au
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Healthy Democracy
Country: US
Type: practice
Website: https://healthydemocracy.org
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, direct-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.

Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC)
Country: CN
Website: https://www.hkdc.us
Concepts: democracy, liberal-democracy, constitutional-democracy
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.

Institute for China's Democratic Transition (ICDT)
Website: https://chinademocrats.org/en
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, democracy, liberal-democracy
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.

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

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)
Country: IN
Website: https://internetfreedom.in
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, accountability-sink
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.

Involve
Country: UK
Website: https://www.involve.org.uk
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy
A UK charity that develops and promotes public participation and deliberative democracy, advising governments on how to design and run genuine engagement processes.

Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)
Country: IL
Website: https://en.idi.org.il
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, mixed-member-proportional-representation
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.

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy
Country: IN
Website: https://www.janaagraha.org
Concepts: e-government, direct-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Kialo
Website: https://www.kialo.com
Concepts: consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy
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.

Kongra Star (Women's Congress)
Country: SY
Type: governance
Website: https://kongra-star.org/eng/
Concepts: democratic-confederalism
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.

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

Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)
Country: LB
Website: https://www.lcps-lebanon.org
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink
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.

Liquid Democracy e.V.
Country: DE
Website: https://liqd.net/en/
Concepts: liquid-democracy, deliberative-democracy, e-government, direct-democracy
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.

LiquidFeedback
Website: https://liquidfeedback.com
Concepts: liquid-democracy, direct-democracy, issue-based-direct-democracy
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.

Lismore People's Assembly
Website: https://reclaim.org.au/lpa-home/
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, direct-democracy, democracy
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.

Loomio
Country: NZ
Website: https://www.loomio.com
Concepts: liquid-democracy, deliberative-democracy, cooperative, consensus-mapping
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.

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

MASS LBP
Country: CA
Website: https://www.masslbp.com
Last activity: 2025-07-21 (social)
Concepts: deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, sortition
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.

MEMO 98
Country: SK
Website: https://memo98.sk
Concepts: representative-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency
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.

Memorial
Country: RU
Website: https://www.memorial.de
Concepts: accountability-sink, democracy, radical-transparency
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.

MieuxVoter
Country: FR
Type: civil-society
Website: https://mieuxvoter.fr
Concepts: majority-judgment, e-government
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.

MosaicLab
Website: https://mosaiclab.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, consensus-mapping
An Australian deliberative democracy practice that designs and facilitates public deliberation processes — citizens' juries, panels, and assemblies — for governments and public institutions.

Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG)
Country: IL
Website: https://mqg.org.il/en
Concepts: constitutional-democracy, accountability-sink, radical-transparency
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.

mySociety
Website: https://www.mysociety.org
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, democracy, accountability-sink
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.

NAMFREL (National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections)
Country: PH
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://namfrel.com.ph
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.

newDemocracy Foundation
Website: https://www.newdemocracy.com.au
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, sortition, isegoria, cognitive-division-of-labour
An independent, non-partisan Australian research and development organisation that designs and runs real-world deliberative democracy trials using randomly selected citizens.

NewVote
Website: https://newvote.org
Concepts: direct-democracy, liquid-democracy, e-government
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.

None of the Above Party (Canada)
Country: CA
Website: https://nota.ca
Concepts: direct-democracy, representative-democracy, liquid-democracy
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.

Online Direct Democracy Australia
Concepts: direct-democracy, e-government, liquid-democracy
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.

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

Open Government Partnership — Australia
Type: governance
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ogpau.pmc.gov.au
Concepts: radical-transparency, e-government, constitutional-democracy
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.

Open Society Foundations
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org
Concepts: democracy, radical-transparency, direct-democracy
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.

Civil Network OPORA
Country: UA
Website: https://oporaua.org/en
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).

Participatory Budgeting Project
Website: https://www.participatorybudgeting.org
Concepts: participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy, deliberative-democracy
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.

Participedia
Website: https://participedia.net
Concepts: citizens-assembly, deliberative-democracy, participatory-budgeting, direct-democracy, democracy
A global open-access database and research platform cataloguing thousands of participatory democracy cases, methods, and organisations from around the world.

People Decide
Concepts: direct-democracy, e-government, liquid-democracy
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.

Pirate Party Australia
Website: https://pirateparty.org.au
Concepts: liquid-democracy, issue-based-direct-democracy, radical-transparency
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.

Pol.is
Website: https://pol.is
Concepts: consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly
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.

Prediki
Country: AT
Website: https://www.prediki.com
Concepts: prediction-markets, cognitive-division-of-labour, isegoria
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.

PRS Legislative Research
Website: https://prsindia.org
Concepts: representative-democracy, radical-transparency, accountability-sink
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.

Proportional Representation Society of Australia
Website: https://www.prsa.org.au
Concepts: mixed-member-proportional-representation, representative-democracy, direct-democracy
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.

Referendum Council (Australia)
Concepts: citizens-assembly, constitutional-democracy, democracy
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.

Rwanda Governance Board (RGB)
Country: RW
Website: https://www.rgb.rw
Concepts: vanguardism, democracy, citizens-assembly
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.

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

Sortition Foundation (Australia)
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly
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.

Sortition Foundation
Country: UK
Website: https://www.sortitionfoundation.org
Concepts: sortition, deliberative-democracy, citizens-assembly, representative-democracy
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.

Susan McKinnon Foundation
Type: philanthropy
Website: https://mckinnon.co
Concepts: democracy, constitutional-democracy, citizens-assembly
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.

TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society)
Country: SY
Website: —
Concepts: democratic-confederalism
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.

Ushahidi
Country: KE
Website: https://www.ushahidi.com
Last activity: 2024-11-12 (scrape)
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, collective-intelligence
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.

Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)
Country: VN
Website: https://mattran.org.vn
Concepts: vanguardism
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.

Vote Monitor
Country: RO
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://votemonitor.org/
Concepts: e-government, radical-transparency, end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system
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.

vTaiwan
Country: TW
Website: https://vtaiwan.tw
Concepts: consensus-mapping, deliberative-democracy, radical-transparency, e-government
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.

Your Party
Website: https://www.yourparty.uk
Concepts: sortition, citizens-assembly
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.