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Q&A: Two experts share insights into the new digital participation platform ratings
Q&A: Two experts share insights into the new digital participation platform ratings

Stéphane Dubé and Caroline Khene share some of the thinking that informed the 2023 edition of the People Powered digital participation platform ratings.

Check out the 2023 Digital Participation Platform Ratings
Check out the 2023 Digital Participation Platform Ratings

We tell you how to use our new ratings, plus offer a host of other useful resources.

Chilean institute harnesses digital platform to engage young people as change agents
Chilean institute harnesses digital platform to engage young people as change agents

Chile’s National Youth Institute uses CitizenLab to create a thriving community of young people who are developing solutions to social problems.

Participation must be designed to ‘leave no one behind’: Argentina case study
Participation must be designed to ‘leave no one behind’: Argentina case study

Involving vulnerable people in the development of a participation platform increases their engagement in civic life and trust in government, while improving governance.

In China, popular social media platform is harnessed to increase participation
In China, popular social media platform is harnessed to increase participation

China’s Participation Center has developed a WeChat “mini app” to grow the number of participatory budgeting participants to more than 3 million in Chengdu city.

Q&A: COVID, Civic Tech and Participatory Democracy
Q&A: COVID, Civic Tech and Participatory Democracy

Katya Petrikevich, cofounder of Participation Factory, talks about the impact of COVID on civic tech and the contribution of the new People Powered Guide to Digital Participation Platforms.

Q&A: Civic Tech in Africa–the Power and the Possibilities
Q&A: Civic Tech in Africa–the Power and the Possibilities

Melissa Zisengwe, program officer for the Civic Tech Innovation Network, talks about the evolution of the field in Africa and the contribution of the new People Powered Guide to Digital Participation Platforms.

Q&A: The Growth of Civic Tech and the New Guide to Digital Participation Platforms
Q&A: The Growth of Civic Tech and the New Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

Civic tech expert Matt Stempeck talks about what scares and excites him about the growth of the field and the role of the new People Powered Guide to Digital Participation Platforms.

Large Scale Digital Participation: Participatory Budgeting at the National University of Rosario
Large Scale Digital Participation: Participatory Budgeting at the National University of Rosario

How can participatory democracy programs quickly go online, and still be meaningful and inclusive? The National University of Rosario offers a new model for navigating this transition - the largest university participatory budgeting program in the world, all online.

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