Designing Participatory Democracy

Digidem Lab believes in improving, developing and innovating our democracy. We believe in shifting power and mandate to formulate society's problems and solutions. Therefore, we provide and develop methods for political and democratic innovation.

Reseach Project: Democracy Behind the Scenes

A research project on the conditions for citizen dialogue and participatory democratic methods.

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The Consortium supports EU Citizen Panel on preparedness

Digidem Lab is part of a consortium that is designing and facilitating the European Commission’s citizens’ assembly on preparedness.

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Our services

Digital Citizen Participation with Decidim

Digital Citizen Participation with Decidim

  • Decidim is a flexible and user-friendly platform for bringing all your citizen participation into one place.
Citizens’ assembly: Planning, coordinating, implementing

Citizens’ assembly: Planning, coordinating, implementing

  • A demographically representative group is assembled.
  • During facilitated meetings, they have structured discussions of the issues.
  • They formulate recommendations that are passed on to decision-making bodies.
Participatory Budget and Citizen Participation

Participatory Budget and Citizen Participation

  • Process design and digital tools for participatory budgets.
  • Focus on underrepresented groups.
  • Digital platforms combined with physical processes.
Community organising

Community organising

  • Methods for local organising.
  • Build local knowledge and power.
  • Create resilient and strong organisations.

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Projects

We develop participatory democracy for everything from international institutions and cities to local associations.

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Official Decidim partner

Partner in Collective Intelligence through Digital Tools

Co-founding partner of Nordic Deliberation Network