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Here is our Autumn Newsletter also on the website, so that it doesn’t get lost in the archives and inboxes 🙂 . Sent on 27-11-2014.
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Version release 2.2.1.
Here’s release 2.2.1. of the Consul Democracy open source software. This is a maintenance release with: Check the Changelog to see all the changes. Updating your fork Check how to keep your fork updated; if you’re upgrading from release 2.2.0 or release 2.1.1, you can just: If you’re upgrading from version 2.1.1, make sure to…
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Throwback OIDP conference Valongo, Portugal
Processing all the connections, new insights and new friends that we made last week at the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy annual conference in Valongo, Portugual from 17 to 19 October 2024. 🧑💼 We, together with Diego Calvo Castillo from Enreda, gave a live demonstration of our platform and, with the participants, ran through a…
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Video recording of 7 October Meet-up: German Cities and Youth Participation
If you haven’t been able to be there, here is the recording of yesterday’s Meet-up. We had two speaker: Emelie Abt from the city of Kempten and Jasmin Nimar of the city of Augsburg. Emelie talked about the inclusion of the Consul Democracy platform in the annual SMV meeting between high school students and mayor…
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Next Consul Democracy meet-up: 7 October
This time in our Community Meet-up series: German Cities and Youth Participation. The next Consul Democracy Community Meet-up will take place online on 7 October at 17:00 CET. For the meeting please follow this link: https://de.meet.coop/jen-1bz-e5b-ob0 We are happy to announce that representatives from two German Consul-powered cities will be with us this afternoon (or…
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Welcoming our first official project Sponsor!
We are extremely happy to announce that the city government of Munich in Germany has become the first official Sponsor of the Consul Democracy project! Munich is a user of our citizen participation platform as of 2022 and a strong proponent of transparent and open source technology. According to Dr. Laura Sophie Dornheim, Chief Technology…
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Spreading participatory governance in India
Last week our Network Coordinator Jens Kimmel joined the vidcast series Urban Insights, hosted by Jahashree Kurup from New Dehli, India. Jahashree is one of the people that are bringing the conversation about participatory governance to India. We hope her project and vidcasts will foster that conversation and, eventually, also bring Consul Democracy to India…
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Consul Conference 2025: Gran Canaria
CONSULCON25 The Consul Democracy Foundation in collaboration with the Cabildo de Gran Canaria organises the next ConsulCon on 4-6 February 2025 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The conference celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the open source project Consul Democracy and brings the project back to where it all started, Spain. From 2015 onwards the…
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Highlights of 2024 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, Bucharest
The sheer scale and diversity of people and ideas present at the 2024 #GlobalForum on Modern Direct Democracy last week in Bucharest, Romania, swept us off our feet. 🌍 The list of countries represented at the Global Forum is long and not limited to Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, Spain,…