Welcome to Participedia

A global crowdsourcing platform for researchers, activists, practitioners, and anyone interested in public participation and democratic innovations.

Get Involved

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.

Explore & Research

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.

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Teach

Use Participedia in the classroom to engage students and showcase their research.

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Participedia Project

Visit Participedia.org for more information about the Participedia Project, including our mission, research clusters, events and more.

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