Welcome to Participedia
A global crowdsourcing platform for researchers, activists, practitioners, and anyone interested in public participation and democratic innovations.
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Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue, and compare participatory political processes around the world. The Participedia platform is published under a Creative Commons license and is accessible and editable by anyone. For information on how you can contribute to the project, please see our entry-writing guidelines.
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Explore our database of cases, methods, and organizations using the search bar above, download the data in csv files, or explore entries by location.
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Contribute
Help expand our database by editing existing content or publishing your own. Publishing entries on Participedia provides increased discoverability of your work, while also contributing to a collaborative effort to document examples of public participation and democratic innovation.
Teach
Use Participedia in the classroom to engage students and showcase their research.
Content
Participedia offers a searchable and editable database of content related to worldwide public participation.
Entries about cases document specific examples of how various methods of participatory politics and governance are implemented. Cases can be contemporary or historical, completed, or ongoing.
- For example, this case on Paris’s 2017 Participatory Budget is one of over 160 case entries documenting the use of participatory methods to give citizens stronger influence over the distribution of public resources.
- For example, the 21st Century Town Meeting method allows a large number of people to deliberate simultaneously in small-groups using audience response technology.
Method entries can also provide information on the techniques, mechanisms, and devices used to implement, guide, or improve participatory methods.
- For example, Deliberative Polling® is a method that uses tools and techniques such as random selection, surveys, and undefinedfacilitated small-group discussions.undefined
Entries about %sorganizations%s provide profiles of formal and informal groups that design, implement, or support innovations in participatory politics and governance.
Entries about organizations provide profiles of formal and informal groups that design, implement, or support innovations in participatory politics and governance.- For example, Apathy is Boring is a Canadian NGO that uses methods of participatory arts and democratic education to engage youth in politics.
Entries in the Teaching & Learning Resource Center provide resources for undergraduate and graduate classroom settings, as well as professional development resources for practitioners, civil society organizations, and NGOs. Resources range from course syllabi and class assignments, to handbooks, simulations, and multi-media training material.
Mission
Participedia is a global network and crowdsourcing platform for researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, activists, and anyone interested in democratic innovations. By democratic, we mean practices or institutions that potentially advance ideals of self-government—individually, collectively, and across time, space, and geography. By innovations we mean practices or institutions that are relatively new to a context or place. Our mission is to mobilize knowledge about democracy-enhancing practices and institutions that people are inventing, remolding, protecting, and transferring from other contexts.
Although committed to democratic ideals, Participedia does not advance any ideological, programmatic, institutional, or government agenda. We believe that there are many ways to advance democracy, and that they will differ by place, history, culture, and context-based challenges. We recognize existing inequalities in the collection, theorization, and mobilization of knowledge about non-Western forms of democratic innovations. Participedia is committed to working to address this imbalance. We also recognize that not all cases and methods documented by Participedia will advance democracy, and that impacts will vary by context. “Our mission is to mobilize knowledge about democracy-enhancing practices and institutions that will support answers to the question: What kinds of democratic innovations work best, for what purposes, under what conditions?
Participedia Phase 1 emphasized democratic innovations in participatory governance. Participedia Phase 2, launched in June 2021, is expanding to include a broader range of practices and institutions that potentially support democratic ideals, including innovations in human and political rights, democratic accountability, democratic representation, democracy across borders, and digital communications. Phase 2 recognizes that the democratic project builds on complex ecologies of practices and institutions, and will develop the conceptual infrastructure necessary to capture these broader domains of democratic innovations through crowdsourcing.
Participedia Phase 2
Participedia Phase 2 is funded by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership grant from 2021-2026. Phase 2 aims to promote global cross-sectoral knowledge that supports democratic innovation and resilience. During this project phase, team members will collaborate to produce research and mobilize knowledge to directly address current challenges to democracy and democratization. This new phase of Participedia’s research brings together 63 researchers from 22 universities and 21 organizations across 12 countries. Read more about our latest grant.
Participedia Phase 2 Partners
- Bonny Ibhawoh, Director
- Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice
- McMaster University
- Bonny Ibhawoh
- Director, Participedia
- Chair, Human & Political Rights Research Cluster
- Mark Warren
- Co-chair, Research Committee
- Co-chair, Democratic Representation Research Cluster
- Matt Ryan
- Co-chair, Research Committee
- Bettina von Lieres
- Co-chair, Teaching, Training & Mentoring Committee
- Julien Landry
- Co-chair, Teaching, Training & Mentoring Committee
- Jesi Carson
- Co-chair, Design Technology Team
- Amber Frid-Jimenez
- Co-chair, Design Technology Team
- Selen Ercan
- Co-chair, Participatory & Deliberative Governance Research Cluster
- Andre Bächtiger
- Co-chair, Participatory & Deliberative Governance Research Cluster
- Sanjay Ruparelia
- Chair, Democratic Accountability Research Cluster
- Françoise Montambeault
- Co-chair, Democratic Representation Research Cluster
- Archon Fung
- Chair, Democracy Across Borders Research Cluster
- Edana Beauvais
- Chair, Democracy & Digital Communication Research Cluster
- Joanna Ashworth
- Ex Officio
- Patrick Scully
- Ex Officio
- Paul Emiljanowicz
- Ex Officio
- Paul Emiljanowicz
- Project Manager
- Jesi Carson
- Design Tech Lead
- Pan Khantidhara
- Lead Developer
- Jennifer Wallace
- Research Assistant
- Quinn Anderson
- Research Assistant
- Adebisi Alade
- Research Assistant
- Fiona Anciano
- University of the Western Cape
- Laurence Bherer
- Université de Montréal
- Hans Asenbaum
- University of Canberra
- Chandrima Chakraborty
- McMaster University
- Joanna Ashworth
- Simon Fraser University
- Nancy Doubleday
- McMaster University
- Leonardo Avritzer
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Selen Ercan
- University of Canberra
- Andre Bächtiger
- Universität Stuttgart
- Amber Frid-Jimenez
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Karen Balcom
- McMaster University
- Archon Fung
- Harvard University
- Edana Beauvais
- Simon Fraser University
- Nibaldo Galleguillos
- McMaster University
- John Gaventa
- Studies University of Sussex
- Baogang He
- Deakin University
- Ameil Joseph
- McMaster University
- Paul Kingston
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Julien Landry
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Rosemary McGee
- University of Sussex
- Françoise Montambeault
- Université de Montréal
- Tina Nabatchi
- Syracuse University
- Lucy Parry
- University of Canberra
- Laurence Piper
- University of the Western Cape
- Stuart Poyntz
- Simon Fraser University
- Robert Richards
- University of Arkansas
- Jonathan Rose
- Queen\u2019s University
- Sanjay Ruparelia
- Ryerson University
- Matt Ryan
- University of Southampton
- Vera Schattan P. Coelho
- Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning
- Alexander Shankland
- University of Sussex
- Graham Smith
- University of Westminster
- Paolo Spada
- University of Southampton
- Anil Varughese
- Carleton University
- Francesco Veri
- University of Canberra
- Bettina von Lieres
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Steven Weldon
- Simon Fraser University
- Mark Warren
- University of British Columbia
- Melissa Williams
- University of Toronto
- Yamini Aiyar
- Centre for Policy Research
- Lanre Ikuteyijo
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- Eileen Alma
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Katherine Knobloch
- Colorado State University
- Mbongiseni Buthelezi
- Public Affairs Research Institute
- Melissa Levin
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Leslie Chan
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Oluyemi Oyenike Fayomi
- Admiralty University of Nigeria
- Mark Gibney
- University of North Carolina at Asheville
- Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
- Ghana Institute for Management and Public Administration
- Ricardo Mendonça
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Nidhi Nagabhatla
- United Nations University \/ McMaster University
- Patricia Nanz
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
- Thamy Pogrebinschi
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- Jon Stever
- Innovation for Policy Foundation
- James Turk
- Ryerson University
- Dale Turner
- University of Toronto
- Nick Vlahos
- University of Canberra
- Katherine Walker
- University of Saskatchewan
- Matthew Wildcat
- University of Alberta
- Melike Yilmaz
- McMaster University
- Mesut Yilmaz
- McMaster University
- Ming Zhuang
- Social Equity and Participant Center
- Paola Ardiles
- Simon Fraser University
- Nico Landsman
- ZeelandBruist
Participedia Phase 2 is guided and supported by the following standing committees:
- Executive Committee
- Research Committee
- Teaching Training & Mentoring Committee
- Design Technology Team
- Communications Team
Participedia Phase 2 team members participate in research clusters to collaboratively explore the following research areas:
- Participatory & Deliberative Governance
- Human & Political Rights
- Democratic Accountability
- Democratic Representation
- Democracy Across Borders
- Democracy and digital communications
Participedia is currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through a five-year Partnership Grant beginning in 2021.
Translation management software for this website is provided by Phrase.
Participedia Phase 1
Participedia Phase 1, funded by a SSHRC Partnership grant from 2015-2021, addressed the research challenge of curating and mobilizing knowledge associated with thousands of kinds of democratic innovations that are in place in countries all over the world. We did so by digitally crowdsourcing knowledge in an area of research marked by rapid development and highly dispersed knowledge, much of it practical rather than academic.
Participedia.net is an open source online platform for collaborative co-production of knowledge about democratic innovations, with a focus on participatory governance. Its content comprises user-contributed articles and data available in multiple languages. Participedia is now the world’s largest repository of information about participatory governance, and we have built a global network of academics and practitioners who support and use it.
Prior to Phase 1, the Participedia project was founded in 2009 by Archon Fung (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Mark E. Warren (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia).
The following is an archive of Participedia Phase 1 team members and supporters.
Participedia is open to anyone. Our members include people of all backgrounds, nationalities, and professions. From policy analysts to professors, activists to teachers, Participedia is a place for anyone interested in democratic participation. Our community is at the heart of our endeavour: by joining up, you too can help build this growing resource by editing existing entries or publishing new content on public participation.
Participedia is built on a global partnership between organizations, institutions, and individuals who share an interest in participatory politics and governance. Our partners include co-applicants and collaborators under the SSHRC Partnership Grant. Please contact us if you would like to support the Participedia Project's global mission to expand the use and knowledge of democratic innovation by becoming a partner.
- Mark E. Warren, Participedia Project Director and Co-founder
- Department of Political Science / Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- University of British Columbia
- Archon Fung, Participedia Co-founder
- Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Harvard University
- Eileen Alma
- Coady International Institute
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Julia Abelson
- Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
- McMaster University
- Marco Adria
- Centre for Public Involvement
- University of Alberta
- Giovanni Allegretti
- Centro de Estudo Sociais
- Universidade de Coimbra
- Joanna Ashworth
- Centre for Sustainable Development
- Simon Fraser University
- Leonardo Avritzer
- Department of Political Science
- Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Michael Burgess
- W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
- University of British Columbia
- Simone Chambers
- Department of Political Science
- University of California, Irvine
- Nancy C. Doubleday
- Department of Philosophy
- McMaster University
- Luciana Duranti
- InterPARES Trust
- School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies
- University of British Columbiat
- John Dryzek
- Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis
- University of Canberra
- Amber Frid-Jimenez
- Studio for Extensive Aesthetics / Design + Dynamic Media
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- John Gastil
- The McCourtney Institute for Democracy
- Pennsylvania State University
- John Gaventa
- Institute of Development Studies
- University of Sussex
- Baogang He
- International Studies
- Deakin University
- Bonny Ibhawoh
- Department of History
- McMaster University
- Jan-Hendrik Kamlage
- Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
- Research College / University of Duisburg-Essen
- Paul Kingston
- Centre for Critical Development Studies
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Rodolfo Lewanski
- Department of Political and Social Sciences
- University of Bologna
- Peter Loewen
- Munk School of Global Affairs
- University of Toronto
- Françoise Montambeaul
- Centre d'études et de recherches internationals (CÉRIUM)
- Centre for International Studies
- Universite de Montreal
- Tina Nabatchi
- Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
- Maxwell School, Syracuse University
- Patrizia Nanz
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
- University of Potsdam
- Laurence Piper
- Department of Political Science
- University of the Western Cape
- Thamy Pogrebinschi
- Research Unit Democracy and Democratization
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- Robert C. Richards, Jr.
- University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
- Matthew Ryan
- Centre for Citizenship, Governance and Globalization
- University of Southampton
- Graham Smith
- Centre for the Study of Democracy
- University of Westminster
- Paolo Spada
- Centro de Estudo Sociais
- Universidade de Coimbra
- Dietlind Stolle
- Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
- McGill University
- Bettina von Lieres
- Centre for Critical Development Studies
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Melissa Williams
- Department of Political Science
- University of Toronto
- Jirong Yan
- Co-Innovation Center for State Governance
- Institute of Political Development and Governance
- Peking University
- Xiaojin Zhang
- Department of Political Science
- Tsinghua University
- André Bächtiger
- Department of Political Theory and Empirical Study of Democracy
- Universität Stuttgart
- Kaustuv Bandyopadhyay
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
- Edana Beauvais
- Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
- Department of Political Science
- McGill University
- Claudia Feres Faria
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Dustin Garrick
- Department of Political Science and Booth School of Engineering Practice
- McMaster University
- Katherine Gillieson
- Design + Dynamic Media
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Jez Hall
- PB Partners
- Sandy Heierbacher
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
- David Hume
- Ministry of Citizens' Services and Open Government
- Government of British Columbia
- David Kahane
- Department of Political Science
- University of Alberta
- Katie Knobloch
- Communication Studies
- Colorado State University
- Julien Landry
- Coady International Institute
- St Francis Xavier University
- Matt Leighninger
- Yankelovich Center for Public Judgment
- Public Agenda
- Michael MacKenzie
- Department of Political Science
- University of Pittsburgh
- Marjorie Correa Marona
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Alessandro Mengozzi
- Department of Social and Political Sciences
- University of Bologna
- Tiago Peixoto
- ICT4Gov Program
- World Bank Institute
- Marcus Abílio Gomes Pereira
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Hollie Russon-Gilman
- Open Technology Institute
- New America
- Alexandra Samuel
- Eleonora Schettini Cunha
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Eduardo Moreira da Silva
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Leonardo Barros Soares
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Joanna Wilson
- Department of Biology
- McMaster University
- Sule Yaylaci
- Department of Sociology
- University of British Columbia
- Changdong Zhang
- Department of Political Science
- Peking University
- David Talukder
- Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL)
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Julien Vrydagh
- Department of Political Science
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université catholique de Louvain
- University of British Columbia
- Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- Vancouver, Canada
- Harvard University
- Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Cambridge, United States
- Coady International Institute
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Antigonish, Canada
- Deliberative Democracy Consortium
- Washington, United States
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Studio for Extensive Aesthetics / Design + Dynamic Media
- Vancouver, Canada
- International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
- Barcelona, Spain
- Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI)
- Essen, Germany
- McGill University
- Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
- Montréal, Québec
- McMaster University
- Office of Research and International Affairs
- Hamilton, Ontario
- Nanyang Technological University
- Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme
- Singapore
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Peking University
- Co-Innovation Center for State Governance
- Institute of Political Development and Governance
- Beijing, China
- Pennsylvania State University
- The McCourtney Institute for Democracy
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Regional Authority for the Promotion of Participation (APP)
- Regional Council of Tuscany
- Firenze, Italia
- Syracuse University
- Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
- Syracuse, New York
- Simon Fraser University
- Centre for Sustainable Development
- Burnaby, Canada
- Tsinghua University
- Department of Political Science
- Beijing, China
- Universidade de Coimbra
- Centro de Estudo Sociais
- Coimbra, Portugal
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Departamento de Ciência Política
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- University of Alberta
- Centre for Public Involvement
- Edmonton, Canada
- University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
- Little Rock, United States
- Università di Bologna
- Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
- Bologna, Italy
- University of British Columbia
- InterPARES Trust
- Vancouver, Canada
- University of British Columbia
- W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
- Vancouver, Canada
- University of Canberra
- Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis
- Canberra, Australia
- Université de Montreal
- Centre d'études et de recherches internationals (CÉRIUM)
- Montreal, Canada
- University of Southampton
- Centre for Citizenship, Globalisation and Governance (C2G2)
- Southampton, United Kingdom
- University of Toronto
- Centre for Ethics
- Toronto, Canada
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Centre for Critical Development Studies
- Toronto, Canada
- University of the Western Cape
- Department of Political Studies
- Bellville, South Africa
- University of Westminster
- Centre for the Study of Democracy
- London, United Kingdom
- World Bank Institute
- ICT4Gov Program
- Washington, United States
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- Research Unit Democracy and Democratization
- Berlin, Germany
Participedia’s committees are comprised of project co-investigators and collaborators and are headed by a nominated chairperson who sits on the executive committee.
Participedia's executive committee comprises the chairs of each standing committee and it's meetings are open to any member of our extended team or co-signatories to the project's SSHRC Partnership Grant (co-investigators, collaborators, and administrative representative of partner institutions).
- Marco Adria, Chair, Communication & Knowledge Mobilization Committee
- Centre for Public Involvement
- University of Alberta
- Amber Frid-Jimenez, Participedia Design Lead and Chair, Design & Technology Committee
- Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media and Director, Studio for Extensive Aesthetics
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Archon Fung, Co-Founder
- Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Harvard University
- Patrick L. Scully, (member ex officio), Managing Director
- Matt Ryan, Chair, Research Design Committee
- Centre for the Study of Democracy
- University of Westminster
- Joanna Ashworth and Bettina Von Lieres, Co-Chairs, Teaching, Training and Mentoring Committee
- Centre for Sustainable Development
- Simon Fraser University
- Centre for Critical Development Studies
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Mark E. Warren, Participedia Project Director and Co-Founder
- Department of Political Science / Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- University of British Columbia
The Design & Technology Team uses participatory design methods to research and respond to the needs and goals of the Participedia community and is responsible for developing and testing the open source Participedia.net platform. The open source codebase for the platform is available on Github. The D&T Team is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and student mentorship, and operates out of the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Its members, including student and professional designers and technologists, contribute to the design and development of Participedia under the leadership of Emily Carr faculty member Amber Frid-Jimenez, Canada Research Chair in Art and Design Technology and Director of the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics.
- Amber Frid-Jimenez, Design & Technology Team Lead & Art Director
- Jesi Carson, Lead Designer & Communities Coordinator
- Katherine Gillieson, Lead Graphic Designer
- Stephan Garneau, Designer
- Dethe Elza, Lead Developer
- Andrea Del Rio, Designer & Developer
- Alanna Scott, Developer
- Sam Jiang, Designer & Developer
- Kushal Goenka, Developer
- Lydia Prince, Developer
- David Ascher, Tech Lead
- Patrick Scully, Managing Director
- Scott Fletcher, Managing Editor
The communication and knowledge mobilization committee advises the executive committee on the planning, implementing, and refining of communications between research partners. The committee also advises on the optimization of external communications with and among the Participedia community by supporting the development of content for the website, newsletter, and social media channels.
- Marco Adria, Co-investigator & Committee Chair
- Centre for Public Involvement
- University of Alberta
- Jesi Carson, Lead Designer & Communities Coordinator
- Studio for Extensive Aesthetics
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Sandy Heierbacher, Co-investigator
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
- Matt Leighninger, Co-investigator
- Yankelovich Center for Public Judgment
- Public Agenda
- Paolo Spada, Co-investigator
- Centro de Estudo Sociais
- Universidade de Coimbra
- Secchi Michelangelo, Research Assistant
- Centro de Estudo Sociais
- University of Coimbra
- Scott Fletcher, Managing Editor
- Department of Political Science / Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- University of British Columbia
The teaching, training, and mentoring committee is responsible for integrating Participedia materials into pedagogy, teaching, student involvement, and training resources for practitioners and public officials.
- Joanna Ashworth, Co-investigator
- Centre for Sustainable Development
- Simon Fraser University
- Ibhawoh Bonny, Co-investigator
- Department of History
- McMaster University
- Katie Knobloch, Collaborator
- Department of Communication
- Colorado State University
- Julien Landry, Collaborator
- Coady International Institute
- St Francis Xavier University
- Marjorie Correa Marona, Collaborator
- Department of Political Science
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Françoise Montambeaul, Co-investigator
- Département de science politique
- Université de Montréal
- Tina Nabatchi, Co-investigator
- Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
- Syracuse University/Maxwell School
- Laurence Piper, Co-investigator
- Department of Political Science
- University of the Western Cape
- Matthew Ryan, Co-investigator
- Centre for Citizenship, Governance and Globalization
- University of Southampton
- Timothy Shaffer
- Department of Communication Studies
- Kansas State University
- Nancy Thomas
- Institute for Democracy & Higher Education
- Tufts U
- Bettina von Lieres, Co-investigator
- Centre for Critical Development Studies
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
- Ethan Way, Research Assistant
- University of Toronto-Scarborough
The research design committee sets the strategic direction of Participedia’s research agenda.
- Leonardo Avritzer, Co-investigator
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Selen Ercan
- University of Canberra
- Matt Leighninger, Collaborator
- Deliberative Democracy Consortium / Public Agenda
- Peter Loewen, Co-investigator
- University of Toronto
- Michael MacKenzie, Collaborator
- University of Pittsburgh
- Patrizia Nanz, Co-investigator
- Research College / University of Duisburg-Essen
- Lucy Parry, Research Associate
- University of Canberra
- Matthew Ryan, Co-investigator
- University of Southampton
- Graham Smith, Co-investigator
- University of Westminster
- Dietlind Stolle, Co-investigator
- McGill University
- Mark E. Warren, Project Director, Co-Founder and Principal Investigator
- Department of Political Science / Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- University of British Columbia
Participedia is currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through a five-year Partnership Grant beginning in April 2015.
The Design & Technology Team operates out of the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, and is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Translation management software for this website is provided by Phrase.
The project was previously funded by a two-year SSHRC Partnership Grant from April 2011-2013. An earlier version of the Participedia website included a prototype for German language functionality, developed under the generous support of the Bertelsmann Foundation in 2012.
Participedia's core team of staff members maintain day-to-day operations, support the community, and ensure project goals are continually attained and refined.
- Jesi Carson, Lead Designer & Communities Coordinator
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- Dethe Elza, Lead Developer
- Scott Fletcher, Managing Editor
- University of British Columbia
- Rebecca Monnerat, Project Manager
- University of British Columbia
- Alanna Scott, Developer
- Patrick L. Scully, Managing Director
- Mark E. Warren, Project Director, Co-Founder and Principal Investigator
- Department of Political Science / Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- University of British Columbia