Your Priorities
posted: February 7th, 2018
Your Priorities platform in Reykjavik is offering a successful model experimenting with citizens in Iceland, integrating large-scale deliberation into democratic decisionmaking. The platform crowdsources opinions on city legislation, with the most popular ideas then being debated by the city council.
https://www.yrpri.org
Consul
posted: February 7th, 2018
Consul is an e-government and e-participation digital platform software originally developed for the Madrid City government. The main principles on which the platform is based are: open participation, transparency, the combination of online and offline participation, and citizen empowerment. The platform helps to manage the complexity of participation, which is often a challenging task for councils. The platform brings government closer to the citizenry by opening up direct participatory channels for policy making.
Consul allows citizens to be an active part of the city government by offering them different kinds of participatory mechanisms for direct democracy, deliberation and other collaborative political practices. Consul allows users to launch collective debates, to propose and support proposals, to organise physical meetings, to run citizen surveys, to organise votes on how investment should be distributed, or to write laws in a collaborative way. In summary, a key value has been to integrate several functionalities into the same digital participatory platform.
It is one of the tools related to collaborative policy making from the D-CENT Toolbox (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies). Its objective is to enable citizens to participate in the policy making process using collaborative online platforms. The application backend is written in the Ruby language using the Ruby on Rails framework and it is freely distributed under an Affero GPL v3 license.
http://tools.dcentproject.eu/
http://consulproject.org/en/
Agora Voting
posted: February 7th, 2018
Agora Voting is a secure open source online voting software that protects the privacy of the vote and makes elections end-to-end verifiable. This tool has been developped within the D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) project, co-funded by the European Commission. D-CENT is a project that brings together citizen-led organizations that have transformed democracy in the past years, and helps them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic development.
Agora Voting allows organizations to carry out secure, flexible and transparent elections online. Votes are encrypted by the voter’s web browser and are kept private from even the election administrators. It has been used in multiple elections in Spain, including by political parties such as Podemos to do internal binding elections.
http://agoravoting.org/#index
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