E-Democracy is one of the oldest innovators of online participation and their Inclusive Social Media Initiative was an attempt to expand the use of online Issues Forums among social diverse, lower income communities typically excluded from digital forms of engagement.
The project involves scoping, service mapping and community engagement in 3 locations to identify barriers to the integrated delivery of assistance to help jobless families at the local level. It is designed to assist jobless families to move into education and employment. The demonstration project will be implemented in three...
Held in Bahia, Brazil, the 13th AWID International Forum brought together 1700 activists from over 140 countries from around the world. The forum focused on funding of women's rights groups in developing countries, ending violence against women, and women fighting for climate and environmental justice.
Since the early 2000s, Uganda has placed an emphasis on bottom-up development by NGO’s and microfinance. The ‘people-centred’ approach to poverty alleviation and community development allows active participation and self-determination absent in the traditional market and state top-down models that discouraged popular participation and alienated citizens.
On the 18th September 2014 Scottish residents voted in a legally binding referendum on the question “Should Scotland be an independent country?” Unlike many referenda, a citizens were engaged in dialogue and education in the months leading up to the vote. Over 84.59% of over 4.2 registered voters turned out,...