Topic dossier · 24 conversations
Participation
Participatory budgeting, citizen engagement and the practice of involving people in decisions that affect them. Guests explore what makes participation meaningful rather than performative — feedback loops, genuine institutional commitment, and the difference between consulting people and sharing power with them.
Thomas Lorenz on Brief nach Berlin, lowering barriers to participation & open-source civic tech→Alvaro Oleart on the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes & limits of AI for democracy→Anthony Zacharzewski on Democratic Infrastructure, Participation, and Power→Kenobit on Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Decentralized Social Networks→Alice Casiraghi on designing regenerative systems, public services, and democratic participation→Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation→Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection→Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy→Wietse van Ransbeeck about Go Vocal and how to integrate participation into governance→Vir Sanghavi about Tilt.vote and how it can improve debates in democracies→Jonathan Moskovic about the future of deliberative citizen participation→Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political→Sonia Bussu about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings→Graham Wetherall-Grujić of the Innovation in Politics Institute about improving political discourse→Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits→Tomas Rakos about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea→Andrew Gray about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics→Robert Bjarnason about the Citizens Foundation and how technology supports participatory democracy→Guillaume Saunier & Lucien Langton about how Voca helps to distribute the participatory tool Decidim→Gianluca Sgueo about gamification and how it has potential to improve participation in democracies→Stephen Boucher about Dreamocracy and how collective creativity solves complex problems in society→Bjørn Bedsted about Democracy X, local transitions and global participation→Josef Lentsch about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy→Marcin Woźniak about Swarmcheck and Argument Mapping: How democratic discourse can be more rational→