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Here is our Spring Newsletter, sent out and delivered on Feb 21, 2025.
Incredibly happy to have shared such an amazing three days with a fantastic crowd! #consulcon25. (Here is a link to the conference web page and programme). 馃寧 Gov reps, civic tech people, partipation specialist and many others from around Europe and Latin America came together to share knowledge and skills, learn about partipatory democracy and…
The software ecosystem around the Consul Democracy project is large and wide and emcompasses many software companies, local governments, civic tech non-profits and ngo’s who work with the code, modify it to meet their special needs, and, sometimes, bring crucial features back to make their modifications available to the wider community of users and developers.…
馃實 Join Our Mission to Revolutionize Digital Democracy! 馃殌Are you passionate about open-source technology, civic engagement, and creating impactful change? The Consul Democracy Foundation is looking for a Tech Coordinator to help drive innovation and empower citizens worldwide. 馃洜 About UsAs a non-profit organization, we鈥檙e advancing participatory democracy with our open-source platform, Consul Democracy, used…
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…
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…
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…
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…