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. 馃實 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,…
The second and very cool Community Meet-Up of 2024 is now reviewable in video below (unfortunately due to human errors it misses the first couple of slides, which we will post below.) The Meet-up was entitled: Use of the CONSUL DEMOCRACY platform in Slovenia, and its Challenges. It features a presentation by Maja Cimerman of…
Forging new connections and learning from academia about citizen participation methods at the EDDY (European Digital DemocracY) conference last week in Rotterdam! 馃挕We learned, for example, about the different voting methods that are currently prevalent in computer sciences, such as the so-called Equal Shares method which revolves around the idea of a more fair distribution…
馃敡 Make some noise for Consul Democracy version 2.1.0!We are super happy with the official release of the Consul Democracy software version 2.1.0! Big thanks to our loyal maintainers at Rock&Rohr, Democrateam and Enreda who work tirelessly to keep the Consul code of the highest quality! 馃檹馃徏 Here are some of the most important updates…
Our Spring Newsletter, sent out on February 28th, 2024.
This time in our Community Meet-up series: lessons from Consul use in Slovenia. The next Consul Democracy Community Meet-up will take place on 24 April. We are happy to announce that for this Meet-up we are working together with our Local Partner organization Danes Je Nov Dan. Consul implementation specialist Maja Cimerman will be with…
Our first and – may we say? – awesome Community Meet-Up of 2024 is now reviewable in video below. The Meet-up was entitled: The Mexican Experience: Learning from five cycles of participatory budgeting. It features a presentation by Dino Cant煤-Pedroza and Diego Emilio Cuesy about the implementation and participation processes in different Mexican cities, including…
One question, various answers. We were thrilled to explore some of these at the Smart Country Convention 2023 with gov and non-gov organizations from across Germany. 馃寙 In North-Germany an interesting example is to be found in the city of Hansestadt L眉beck, which is on a potentially transformative path towards becoming the first German ‘Social…
We love this title of an article published by the online magazine Democracy Technologies, who talked to our colleague Jens Kimmel (whose face is shamelessly dominating the article cover..) 馃敠 The interview shines light on the current state of the Consul Democracy project, the global community and the role of the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation in…
Intense discussions and new connections at the Getting Civic Tech Right For Democracy conference at the OECD – OCDE in Paris yesterday. 馃挕 How could technology be used for the empowerment of citizens? Great to see 150 people from civil society, science and governments from all around the world try to wrap their heads around…
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