Participedia Looks Back at 2013
Our friends at the Participedia, the open knowledge community focused on democratic innovation and public engagement, just published a great year-end post reflecting back on six innovative case studies from across the world that were added to the site in the last year.
It has been another great year for Participedia. We hope to become a key resource for scholars, activists, policy makers and citizens who are interested in new democratic practices and institutions. Our team has made big strides towards reaching that goal. This year, 445 new members joined the website and 152 new cases were added to our collection.
As a fitting finish to 2013, we have profiled six cases that were recently added to Participedia. Reflecting Participedia’s diversity and the global span of participatory innovation itself, each of these cases comes from a different country or region of the world, and each employs a different approach to public engagement.
We think the NCDD community can learn a lot from taking a look at the projects Participedia highlights in the post. They cover a wide range of projects including:
- The Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) project from India
- A Rahvakogu (People’s Assembly) in Estonia
- The California Citizen’s Redistricting Commission in the US
- A Policy Crowdsourcing endeavor in Finland
- Ireland’s Constitutional Convention
- And the La Plata Multi-Channel Participatory Budgeting initiative in Argentina
We highly recommend that you take a moment to reflect with Participedia on what lessons we can learn from these 2013 projects and how we can apply them in 2014. You can find the full article by clicking here.
Happy New Year, and happy reading!
