{ "metadata": { "generated_at": "2026-09-19T03:48:59Z", "source": "http://designingopendemocracy.com", "org_count": 176, "last_activity_date": "2026-09-19" }, "organisations": [ { "slug": "888-cooperative-causeway", "title": "888 Co-operative Causeway", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "cooperative", "website": "https://www.888causeway.coop", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/888-cooperative-causeway.png", "summary": "Victoria's first registered co-operative co-working space, based in Melbourne CBD, providing affordable member-run workspace for social economy organisations alongside a podcast and events network focused on cooperative and mutual enterprise.", "concepts": [ "cooperative", "employee-ownership-trusts", "worker-cooperatives", "economic-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://www.888causeway.coop/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "directly known to be operating by a dod person" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; co-working space, events, podcast, membership all current.", "url": "https://www.888causeway.coop", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2019-06-26", "note": "Latest post: Corner and connect", "url": "https://www.888causeway.coop/corner-and-connect/" } }, "contact_email": "coopcauseway@gmail.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8156, "longitude": 144.9648, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "a-nous-la-democratie", "title": "À Nous La Démocratie!", "status": "active", "country": "FR", "type": "movement", "website": "https://anouslademocratie.fr/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/a-nous-la-democratie.png", "summary": "A French citizen movement founded in 2016 advocating for direct democracy through institutional reforms — sortition, the Citizen Initiative Referendum (RIC), and non-accumulation of terms.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "sortition", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://anouslademocratie.fr/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "date": "2025-07-15", "note": "website loaded. They got https://anouslademocratie.fr/articles/ but it differ from rss feed...", "url": "https://anouslademocratie.fr/2025/07/15/pour-la-premiere-democratie-francaise-un-entretien-avec-baya-bellanger-sur-son-nouveau-livre-gouvernons/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site and RSS feed live (200), consistent with prior 2026-07-19/2026-09-11 checks; latest blog post remains 15 Jul 2025 but no evidence of shutdown.", "url": "https://anouslademocratie.fr/", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-07-15", "note": "Latest post: Pour la première Démocratie française : un entretien avec Baya Bellanger sur son", "url": "https://anouslademocratie.fr/2025/07/15/pour-la-premiere-democratie-francaise-un-entretien-avec-baya-bellanger-sur-son-nouveau-livre-gouvernons/" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [ { "type": "facebook", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/anouslademocratie" }, { "type": "twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/@NousDemocratie" }, { "type": "youtube", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkxz7xNQps_QJqPboa0z1g" } ], "location": { "latitude": 48.8566, "longitude": 2.3522, "name": "France" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "accountability-round-table", "title": "Accountability Round Table", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "http://accountabilityrt.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/accountability-round-table.jpg", "summary": "A non-partisan Australian group of citizens — academics, lawyers, politicians, journalists — working to improve standards of accountability, transparency, and democratic integrity in Australian governments.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "constitutional-democracy", "liberal-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "http://accountabilityrt.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "date": "2026-06-08", "note": "website loaded. Saw them meet in person" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, content matches summary (accountability/integrity advocacy content confirmed).", "url": "http://accountabilityrt.org", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-28", "note": "Latest post: Enhancing government accountability", "url": "https://www.accountabilityrt.org/enhancing-government-accountability/" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "http://accountabilityrt.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "adr-india", "title": "Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)", "status": "active", "country": "IN", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://adrindia.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/adr-india.png", "summary": "A New Delhi-based non-partisan nonprofit working on electoral and political reform in India since 1999 — best known for the Supreme Court litigation that compelled mandatory candidate disclosure of criminal, financial, and educational backgrounds.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "website is present and loaded. Last report released by them is at 5 June, 2026" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "adr@adrindia.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://adrindia.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 28.5494, "longitude": 77.2001, "name": "New Delhi, India" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "africtivistes", "title": "AfricTivistes", "status": "active", "country": "SN", "type": "network", "website": "https://www.africtivistes.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/africtivistes.svg", "summary": "A pan-African civil society network founded in 2015 in Dakar — mobilising bloggers, cyber-activists and changemakers across 45 African countries to strengthen democracy, governance, and civic participation through digital tools.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with news dated 21 Jun-21 Aug 2026 (Jokkondiral election-observation tool launch, CEDEAO commentary, Election Civic Tech Fund); info@africtivistes.org / phone contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://www.africtivistes.com", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "info@africtivistes.org", "contact_phone": "+221 33 837 51 24", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 14.7167, "longitude": -17.4677, "name": "Dakar, Senegal" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "afrobarometer", "title": "Afrobarometer", "status": "active", "country": "GH", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.afrobarometer.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/afrobarometer.webp", "summary": "A pan-African survey research network headquartered in Accra conducting nationally representative surveys on democracy, governance, and quality of life in 35+ African countries — data freely available since 1999.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy", "liberal-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "https://www.afrobarometer.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Latest post: AB Update August 2026", "url": "https://www.afrobarometer.org/articles/ab-update-august-2026/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@afrobarometer.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.afrobarometer.org/contact-us", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 5.6037, "longitude": -0.187, "name": "Accra, Ghana" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-07", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "aman-palestine", "title": "AMAN – Coalition for Accountability and Integrity", "status": "active", "country": "PS", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/aman-palestine.png", "summary": "Palestine's national anti-corruption and governance integrity coalition — established 2000, accredited as Transparency International's Palestinian chapter in 2006, producing integrity indices, corruption reports, and electoral integrity monitoring.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "democracy", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/rss", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; latest news items dated 2026-09-12 and 2026-09-07, coalition and integrity work ongoing.", "url": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/en", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/rss", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/en/activities/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@aman-palestine.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.aman-palestine.org/contact-us", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 31.9026, "longitude": 35.2034, "name": "Ramallah, Palestine" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "apolitical", "title": "Apolitical", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "platform", "website": "https://apolitical.co", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/apolitical.ico", "summary": "A London-based global learning network and AI-tools platform for government — connecting 500,000+ public servants across 170+ countries to share what works and, more recently, to adopt AI in public institutions.", "concepts": [ "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-16", "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live and actively promoting its Futura AI platform as of September 2026", "url": "https://apolitical.co/" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-18" } }, "contact_email": "hello@apolitical.co", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "australia-institute-democracy", "title": "The Australia Institute — Democracy & Accountability Program", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://australiainstitute.org.au/about/structure/democracy-accountability/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/australia-institute-democracy.png", "summary": "A dedicated research and advocacy program within The Australia Institute focused on diagnosing and addressing Australia's democratic deficit — covering truth in political advertising, parliamentary reform, anti-corruption institutions, and campaign finance.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "constitutional-democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://australiainstitute.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site blocks scripted fetch (403) but web search confirms Democracy & Accountability Program active in 2026 under director Bill Browne, with publications in April/May/June 2026.", "url": "https://australiainstitute.org.au/about/structure/democracy-accountability/", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-17", "note": "Latest post: What’s the point of gambling reform?", "url": "https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-gambling-reform/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-point-of-gambling-reform", "checked": "2026-08-17" } }, "contact_email": "mail@australiainstitute.org.au", "contact_phone": "02 6130 0530", "contact_form": "https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2809, "longitude": 149.13, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "australian-democracy-network", "title": "Australian Democracy Network", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://australiandemocracy.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/australian-democracy-network.png", "summary": "A coalition of 200+ Australian civil society organisations working for a fairer, more open, and more accountable democracy — focused on campaign finance reform, protecting civil society advocacy rights, protest rights, and countering disinformation.", "concepts": [ "constitutional-democracy", "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-04-15", "note": "Website is up and they got a new post. 15 Apr 2026 Take the Pledge: Integrity Organisations call on Victorian Political Parties to Commit Now to Donation Transparency" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Site is a JS-rendered SPA that plain fetch cannot render; websearch corroborates ADN as an active 200+ org coalition (registered charity, founded 2020).", "url": "https://australiandemocracy.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "Server still up (sitemap detected)" } }, "contact_email": "media@australiandemocracy.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://australiandemocracy.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "australian-democrats", "title": "Australian Democrats", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://democrats.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/australian-democrats.png", "summary": "A re-established Australian centrist political party with a strong focus on democratic reform, electoral integrity, and evidence-based policy — including explicit support for citizens' assemblies and proportional representation.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "mixed-member-proportional-representation", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://democrats.org.au/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Site returns a Cloudflare challenge to scripted fetches; websearch corroborates the party is actively registering for 2026 state elections (Victoria, NSW).", "url": "https://democrats.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "date": "2026-05-24", "note": "Latest post: We took part in a Facebook Q&A", "url": "https://www.democrats.org.au/posts/6v15DUfhxyWNVoSqBBFje4/we-took-part-in-a-facebook-q-a" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.democrats.org.au/contact/", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "australian-greens", "title": "Australian Greens", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://greens.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/australian-greens.svg", "summary": "Australia's Greens party — tracked here for a specific, sourced governance-reform record (anti-corruption oversight, political donations transparency, truth-in-advertising law), not for its much broader multi-issue platform, which DOD does not track or endorse. Won amendments strengthening independent oversight when the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act passed the Senate in 2022, and has repeatedly proposed capping political donations and banning donations from \"dirty industries.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "accountability-sink", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-15", "date": "2026-08-15", "note": "Page created and sourced directly against greens.org.au primary documents (media releases, campaign pages, \"Our Story\"), following up on internal research into Australian parties' democracy-reform records." }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Latest post: test", "url": "https://greens.org.au/node/3038613", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "greens@greens.org.au", "contact_phone": "02 6140 3217", "contact_form": "https://greens.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.1869, "longitude": 149.133, "name": "Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "bersih", "title": "BERSIH 2.0", "status": "active", "country": "MY", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://bersih.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/bersih.png", "summary": "Malaysia's largest non-partisan coalition for electoral reform — a network of 90+ civil society organisations conducting independent election observation, voter registration drives, and public campaigns for free and fair elections since 2007.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "constitutional-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-28", "date": "2025-03-06", "note": "Latest post: Akta Perkhidmatan Parlimen — Bersih gesa kerajaan teruskan reformasi Parlimen", "url": "https://bersih.org/news/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "bersih.org pages (about-us, news, tag archives) confirmed indexed and live via search; direct scripted fetch returns 403 (Cloudflare bot check) — same BLOCKED pattern as other sites in this landscape, not a dead site.", "url": "https://bersih.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-06-28", "hint": "bot_blocked", "note": "News page unreachable — direct fetch tooling unavailable this run; web search confirms the coalition and its international wing (Global Bersih) remain active with current reform/campaign pages" } }, "contact_email": "info@bersih.org", "contact_phone": "+603-76280371", "contact_form": "https://bersih.org/about-us/#contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 3.1569, "longitude": 101.7123, "name": "Petaling Jaya, Malaysia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "better-politics-foundation", "title": "Better Politics Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "foundation", "website": "https://www.betterpolitics.foundation", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/better-politics-foundation.png", "summary": "A Berlin-based, non-partisan global foundation (formerly Apolitical Foundation) working to equip political leaders with better tools and support — through the Better Politics Index, the Better Politics Fund, research on politician safety and wellbeing, and a network of political-leadership entrepreneurs.", "concepts": [], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-16", "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live; \"Elected. Now What?\" report and Better Politics Week 2026 (Brussels) current as of September 2026", "url": "https://www.betterpolitics.foundation/" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-01-29", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.betterpolitics.foundation/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-18" } }, "contact_email": "info@betterpolitics.foundation", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.52, "longitude": 13.405, "name": "Berlin, Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "bhive", "title": "bHive", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "cooperative", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://bhive.coop", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/bhive.png", "summary": "A place-based platform cooperative in Bendigo, Victoria that has since closed — was the first of its kind globally, providing a member-owned sharing platform for local neighbourhoods to exchange skills, goods, and mutual aid.", "concepts": [ "cooperative", "worker-cooperatives", "economic-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-05-29", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": {}, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "", "activity_method": "" }, { "slug": "br-acc", "title": "br/acc (World Transparency Graph)", "status": "inactive", "country": "BR", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/brunoclz/br-acc", "logo": "", "summary": "An open-source Brazilian civic tech project that normalises 45+ scattered government databases into a single searchable graph — making public data genuinely accessible for accountability and civic research.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "radical-transparency", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-06-07", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "brunoclz privated all his repo, so looks like his project has ended" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -23.5505, "longitude": -46.6333, "name": "São Paulo, Brazil" }, "activity_date": "2026-06-07", "activity_method": "manual" }, { "slug": "budgit", "title": "BudgIT", "status": "active", "country": "NG", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://budgit.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/budgit.png", "summary": "A Nigerian civic-tech organisation that turns government budgets into plain language and pictures, then sends citizens to check whether the projects in them were actually built — now operating in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and the United States.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "democracy-tools", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-25", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-25", "note": "Site checked and page created: publications library updated 19 August 2026, headlines and country offices (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, US) all current", "url": "https://budgit.org/publications/", "checked": "2026-08-25" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-19", "note": "Latest post: How Digital Tools Like the PHC Accountability Tracka Are Closing the Gap Between", "url": "https://budgit.org/role-of-technology-in-improving-phc-service-delivery-how-digital-tools-like-the-phc-accountability-tracka-are-closing-the-gap-between-government-commitments-and-community-level-healthcare-re/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@budgit.org", "contact_phone": "+234 908 333 1633", "contact_form": "https://budgit.org/contact/", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 6.5114693, "longitude": 3.3699982, "name": "Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-25", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "build-a-ballot", "title": "Build a Ballot", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.buildaballot.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/build-a-ballot.png", "summary": "An Australian voter advice tool that helps citizens match their values to candidates before elections — launched before each state and federal election by Project Planet, a climate-focused charity.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "was definitely active last year, as noted by a dod member" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; live for SA 2026 election and Farrer by-election.", "url": "https://www.buildaballot.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-27", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.buildaballot.org.au/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "tool@buildaballot.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cafsa", "title": "Citizen Assemblies for South Australia (CAfSA)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://cafsa.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cafsa.png", "summary": "An Adelaide-based incorporated association advocating for the use of citizens' assemblies in South Australian policy-making, with a cross-partisan advisory board including a former SA Premier, a former Liberal Senator, and the executive director of newDemocracy.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://cafsa.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; current board (incl. former SA Premier Jay Weatherill), 2026 copyright notice.", "url": "https://cafsa.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-09", "note": "Latest post: CAfSA News Bulletin no. 8", "url": "https://cafsa.org.au/news-bulletin-no-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-bulletin-no-8" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://cafsa.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -34.9285, "longitude": 138.6007, "name": "Adelaide, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "capad", "title": "Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://canberra-alliance.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/capad-icon.png", "summary": "A Canberra-based community nonprofit promoting good governance and civic participation in the ACT through candidate accountability forums, deliberative conversations, and civic education — independently funded and member-run since 2015.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "citizens-assembly", "cooperative" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://canberra-alliance.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; Kitchen Table Conversations, Genuine Engagement Tool, MP priorities report current.", "url": "https://canberra-alliance.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-01-03", "note": "Latest post: Redescribing Democracy: a Review", "url": "https://canberra-alliance.org.au/redescribing-democracy-a-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redescribing-democracy-a-review" } }, "contact_email": "secretary@canberra-alliance.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2809, "longitude": 149.13, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cdd-west-africa", "title": "Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD West Africa)", "status": "active", "country": "NG", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.cddwestafrica.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cdd-west-africa.png", "summary": "An Abuja-based independent research and advocacy organisation focused on democratic governance and human security in West Africa — founded in 1997 to support Nigeria's democratic transition, now a regional hub for policy analysis, electoral integrity, and civil society capacity-building.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; blog posts and reports from 2026 (incl. Osun governorship election coverage) visible.", "url": "https://www.cddwestafrica.org", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "scrape": { "hint": "no_markup", "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "Server still up (sitemap detected)" }, "url": "https://www.cddwestafrica.org/blog/" }, "contact_email": "cddabv@cddwestafrica.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 9.0579, "longitude": 7.4951, "name": "Abuja, Nigeria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cddgg", "title": "Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/cddgg", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cddgg.png", "summary": "A world-leading academic research centre at the University of Canberra focused on deliberative democracy — home of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, and the institution behind the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active (director Hans Asenbaum, weekly seminar series, Journal of Deliberative Democracy). Note: the University of Canberra page now titles the centre simply 'Centre for Deliberative Democracy' (dropped '...and Global Governance' from the page title/short URL /research/centres/cdd), though the centre's own domain delibdem.org still uses the full name in its title tag -- worth rechecking on a future pass whether this is a completed rebrand.", "url": "https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/cddgg", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" } }, "contact_email": "delibdem@canberra.edu.au", "contact_phone": "+61 2 6201 5111", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2457, "longitude": 149.0745, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "centro-gumilla", "title": "Centro Gumilla", "status": "active", "country": "VE", "type": "research", "website": "https://gumilla.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/centro-gumilla.png", "summary": "A Venezuelan Jesuit social research centre — independent, critically engaged with Bolivarian institutions, publishing on community council governance, political participation, and social policy since 1968. One of the few credible independent governance research bodies operating inside Venezuela.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://gumilla.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; recent 2026 posts on civic participation and political-moment forums in Lara/Caracas.", "url": "https://gumilla.org", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-08-04", "note": "Latest post: Centro Gumilla, FUNDACEDEAP y Excuela consolidan alianza estratégica para formar", "url": "https://gumilla.org/alianza-gumilla-formacion-mujeres-emprendedoras/" } }, "contact_email": "comunicacionesgumilla@gmail.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 10.4806, "longitude": -66.9036, "name": "Caracas, Venezuela" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "china-democratic-league", "title": "China Democratic League (CDL)", "status": "active", "country": "CN", "type": "party", "website": "https://www.mmzy.org.cn", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/china-democratic-league.png", "summary": "The largest of China's eight officially recognised 'democratic parties' — ~357,000 members, primarily intellectuals in education, science, and culture. Operates within the CPC-led multi-party cooperation system under 'bounded articulation': advisory on sectoral matters, structurally incapable of challenging CPC authority.", "concepts": [ "vanguardism", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active (200 via browser UA); 2026 NPC/CPPCC session coverage and Central Committee research seminar visible.", "url": "https://www.mmzy.org.cn", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" }, "url": "https://www.mmzy.org.cn/mmyw/default.aspx" }, "contact_email": "webmaster@mmzy.org.cn", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 39.9042, "longitude": 116.4074, "name": "Beijing, China" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cideci-unitierra", "title": "CIDECI-Unitierra", "status": "active", "country": "MX", "type": "education", "website": "https://seminarioscideci.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cideci-unitierra.png", "summary": "An indigenous education and documentation centre in Chiapas, Mexico, aligned with the Zapatista autonomous communities — hosting the Zapatista 'Little Schools' and serving as a hub for research on the Juntas de Buen Gobierno governance model.", "concepts": [ "democratic-confederalism" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Direct fetch returned 503/connection reset; websearch corroborates active recent programming, incl. a Seedbed Seminar 'War Against Humanity' held 20-24 July 2026 at CIDECI-UniTierra.", "url": "https://seminarioscideci.org", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-08-09", "date": "2024-05-21", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 16.737, "longitude": -92.6376, "name": "San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "citizen-os", "title": "Citizen OS", "status": "active", "country": "EE", "type": "platform", "website": "https://citizenos.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/citizen-os.png", "summary": "An Estonian open-source civic technology platform for collaborative decision-making, public consultations, and online petitions — deployed in 50+ countries, with binding e-ID vote support in Estonia.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "https://citizenos.com/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "date": "2025-07-23", "note": "Latest post: Big Tech & Small Tech: Is Profit Over People Shrinking Civic Space for Good?", "url": "https://citizenos.com/news/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; platform stats current (14,705 users, 5,468 discussions).", "url": "https://citizenos.com", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://citizenos.com/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2023-06-19", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://citizenos.com/news/" } }, "contact_email": "info@citizenos.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 59.437, "longitude": 24.7536, "name": "Tallinn, Estonia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "citizens-foundation", "title": "Citizens Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "IS", "type": "platform", "website": "https://citizens.is", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/citizens-foundation.png", "summary": "An Icelandic non-profit developing Your Priorities, an open-source deliberation platform used in 45+ countries — best known for Better Reykjavík, which engaged over half of Iceland's eligible citizens.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "isegoria" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://citizens.is/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "Unsure how to read the blog section for year last posted. However https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app has activity 3 weeks ago.", "url": "https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, Your Priorities/Better Reykjavik content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://citizens.is", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2023-10-01", "note": "Latest post: The Power of Citizen Engagement: Why “Your Priorities” is the World’s Leading Pl", "url": "https://citizens.is/2023/10/01/the-power-of-citizen-engagement-why-your-priorities-is-the-worlds-leading-platform/" } }, "contact_email": "citizens@citizens.is", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 64.1355, "longitude": -21.8954, "name": "Reykjavík, Iceland" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "citizens-parliament-uk", "title": "Citizens Parliament (UK)", "status": "inactive", "country": "GB", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.citizensparliament.uk", "logo": "", "summary": "A UK campaign to replace the House of Lords with a randomly selected citizens' chamber — a permanent sortition-based upper house.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "ciudadania-inteligente", "title": "Ciudadanía Inteligente", "status": "active", "country": "CL", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.ciudadaniai.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/ciudadania-inteligente.svg", "summary": "A Chilean civic-tech organisation building tools and strategies to strengthen citizen participation, transparency, and public advocacy across Latin America and the Caribbean, active since 2009.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "deliberative-democracy", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live: featured articles on AI legislative early-warning system and Josefina Correa columns; footer copyright 2009-2026; info@ciudadaniai.org contact confirmed via /contacto page.", "url": "https://www.ciudadaniai.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.ciudadaniai.org/contacto", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.4489, "longitude": -70.6693, "name": "Santiago, Chile" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "civic-hive", "title": "Civic Hive", "status": "active", "country": "NG", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://civichive.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/civic-hive.png", "summary": "A Lagos-based civic-tech fellowship and innovation hub — training civic-tech practitioners, launching platforms for election transparency and civic participation, and running the West Africa CivicTech Conference.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with news dated 6-25 Aug 2026 (Creative Changemakers Fellowship, Osun State election coverage); info@civichive.org / phone contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://civichive.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-25", "note": "Latest post: APPLY: Creative Changemakers Fellowship 2026", "url": "https://civichive.org/ccmf2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ccmf2026", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "url": "https://civichive.org/2026-osun-state-governorship-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2026-osun-state-governorship-election" }, "contact_email": "info@civichive.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://civichive.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 6.5244, "longitude": 3.3792, "name": "Lagos, Nigeria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "civic-tech-field-guide", "title": "Civic Tech Field Guide", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "research", "website": "https://civictech.guide", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/civic-tech-field-guide.svg", "summary": "A crowdsourced directory describing itself as the world's most complete collection of projects, tools, and organisations using technology for democracy — founded 2016, now helping 50,000+ people a month find civic-tech work, tools, and collaborators rather than rebuild what already exists.", "concepts": [ "meta-organisation", "e-government", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-07", "date": "2026-08-07", "note": "Site loaded, active directory and listings confirmed.", "url": "https://civictech.guide/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live: blog post 5 Aug 2026, new manager announced 26 Jun 2026, directory shows 12,610+ projects; info@civictech.guide contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://civictech.guide", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-10", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://civictech.guide/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@civictech.guide", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.7128, "longitude": -74.006, "name": "New York City, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "coalition-of-everyone", "title": "Coalition of Everyone", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://coalitionofeveryone.com/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/coalition-of-everyone.ico", "summary": "An Australian organisation that ran participatory and deliberative democracy processes in communities — aimed at repairing and building democracy into everyday life. Wound up after six years of operation.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "consensus-mapping", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "code-for-australia", "title": "Code for Australia", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.codeforaustralia.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/code-for-australia.png", "summary": "An Australian civic technology organisation that partners with government and non-profits to deliver digital solutions — through a fellowship program placing technologists inside public institutions.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "personally know it exist and still running" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Website confirmed active; fellowship program, 12+ live products, B-Corp status.", "url": "https://www.codeforaustralia.org", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2024-06-28", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "info@codeforaustralia.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "code-for-japan", "title": "Code for Japan", "status": "active", "country": "JP", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.code4japan.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/code-for-japan.svg", "summary": "Japan's leading civic-tech organisation, part of the international Code for All network — running an open community for citizen-led digital problem-solving, co-developing participatory decision-making platforms with local governments, and promoting open data and government digital transformation.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with news dated 22 Jul-9 Sep 2026 (Code for Japan Summit 2026 program, monthly Civic Tech Fun! Fun! reports); Google Form contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://www.code4japan.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.code4japan.org/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.code4japan.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 35.6762, "longitude": 139.6503, "name": "Tokyo, Japan" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "community-independents-project", "title": "Community Independents Project", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.communityindependentsproject.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/community-independents-project.webp", "summary": "The national support and capacity-building body for Australia's community independent candidate movement — a decentralised network of locally organised, non-partisan groups that support community-driven independent candidates for parliament.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://www.communityindependentsproject.org/blog/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. Last convention at 2025" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — 2025 Candidates section and upcoming events listed; summary and contact info still accurate.", "url": "https://www.communityindependentsproject.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2022-09-04", "note": "Latest post: The second national Community Independents Convention, August 2022", "url": "https://www.communityindependentsproject.org/blog/the-second-national-community-independents-convention-august-2022" } }, "contact_email": "info@communityindependentsproject.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "conaie", "title": "CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador)", "status": "active", "country": "EC", "type": "governance", "website": "https://conaie.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/conaie.ico", "summary": "Ecuador's main confederation of indigenous nationalities — 14 nationalities, 18 peoples — a governance actor as much as an advocacy body, having co-drafted Ecuador's 2008 plurinational constitution and operating parallel indigenous justice and territorial governance systems.", "concepts": [ "buen-vivir" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-12", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-12", "note": "Direct fetch blocked by Cloudflare bot challenge (429); websearch corroborates CONAIE remains active, with a VIII Congress mandate for a 2026 national uprising against mining/oil plunder.", "url": "https://conaie.org", "checked": "2026-09-12" }, "rss": { "date": "2025-04-04", "note": "Latest post: Esmeraldas derramada: una historia de Las Piedras", "url": "https://radiojatarikichwa.com/?p=7656", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-22", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://conaie.org/sitemap_index.xml", "checked": "2026-08-28" } }, "contact_email": "conaie@ecuanex.net.ec", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -0.2295, "longitude": -78.5243, "name": "Quito, Ecuador" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-12", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "congreso-visible", "title": "Congreso Visible", "status": "active", "country": "CO", "type": "research", "website": "https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/congreso-visible.svg", "summary": "A legislative transparency project based at the Universidad de los Andes since 1998 — tracking all Colombian congressional activity, publishing voting records, and running 'Candidatos Visibles' voter information campaigns each election cycle.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "representative-democracy", "democracy-tools", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live: legislative calendar populated through Sep-Oct 2026 with scheduled commission meetings/votes; 339 laws enacted / 2,610 bills tracked stats current.", "url": "https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co/contacto", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 4.711, "longitude": -74.0721, "name": "Bogotá, Colombia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "constitutional-clarion", "title": "Constitutional Clarion", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "media", "website": "https://www.youtube.com/@constitutionalclarion1901", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/constitutional-clarion.jpg", "summary": "A YouTube channel run by Professor Emerita Anne Twomey (Sydney Law School) — a one-person public education initiative explaining how the Australian Constitution actually works: reserve powers, conventions, federalism, and referendum mechanics — for a general audience rather than a legal one.", "concepts": [ "constitutional-democracy", "representative-democracy", "tribal-epistemology" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "YouTube channel confirmed still active in 2026 — a specific new video ('The Challenge By White Australia To The Prohibited Hate Group Law') corroborated via web search; direct channel-page fetch blocked by YouTube's script restrictions.", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@constitutionalclarion1901", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8886, "longitude": 151.1873, "name": "Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "consul-democracy", "title": "Consul Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "ES", "type": "platform", "website": "https://consuldemocracy.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/consul-democracy.png", "summary": "An open-source e-participation platform originally developed by Madrid City Council, now stewarded by an independent foundation and used by ~350 governments worldwide.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "e-government", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "https://consuldemocracy.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-09", "note": "Latest post: Protected: Towards a digital commons: improving our governance model", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/2026/09/towards-a-digital-commons-improving-our-governance-model/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@consulfoundation.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.4168, "longitude": -3.7038, "name": "Madrid, Spain" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-09", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "conversations-at-the-crossroads", "title": "Conversations at the Crossroads", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/conversations-at-the-crossroads.png", "summary": "An independent Melbourne-based civic network running deliberative democracy initiatives, including large-scale citizens assemblies and a national program to scale deliberative participation.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "Website loaded. https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/events says next event is at Tuesday 30 June 2026 'The decline of democracy and the rise of the far-right'", "url": "https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/events" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — Reclaiming Democracy Together (May 2026, 1,700+ attendees) and ongoing events; contact email confirmed.", "url": "https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-01", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/events", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-24", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "admin@crossroadsconversation.com.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cooperative-bonds", "title": "Co-operative Bonds", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "practice", "website": "https://bonds.coop", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cooperative-bonds.png", "summary": "A Melbourne-based cooperative of cooperative developers, providing governance, business model, and development support to co-operatives, mutuals, social enterprises, and member-based organisations across Australia.", "concepts": [ "cooperative", "economic-democracy", "workplace-democracy", "community-business", "worker-cooperatives" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://bonds.coop/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — current programs, resources, and contact info match frontmatter.", "url": "https://bonds.coop", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://bonds.coop/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-07-30", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://bonds.coop/resources/co-op-news/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@bonds.coop", "contact_phone": "+61 418 223 517", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "council-watch", "title": "Council Watch", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.councilwatch.com.au", "logo": "", "summary": "Victorian citizen watchdog on local council governance — tracks council CEO salary disclosures, campaigns on rate caps, and compiles council complaints and councillor wellbeing data.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-21", "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Website live; active CEO salary transparency table, rate-cap campaign pages, complaints tracker, and Councillor Resilience Survey.", "url": "https://www.councilwatch.com.au" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.councilwatch.com.au/el_el-sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "cppcc", "title": "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)", "status": "active", "country": "CN", "type": "government", "website": "http://en.cppcc.gov.cn", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/cppcc.png", "summary": "China's top political advisory body — a CPC-led consultative institution comprising ~3,000 delegates. Scholars characterise it as a 'flower vase' operating under 'bounded articulation': members can propose within preset CPC limits but cannot challenge the structure of authority. Included here as a documented example of managed consultation, and where it fails the good-faith accountability test.", "concepts": [ "vanguardism", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Site loads (200 via browser UA; plain fetch got 503) — content/structure unchanged from prior review; no public contact info found.", "url": "http://en.cppcc.gov.cn", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 39.9042, "longitude": 116.4074, "name": "Beijing, China" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "ctin", "title": "Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)", "status": "active", "country": "ZA", "type": "network", "website": "https://civictech.africa", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/ctin.png", "summary": "A pan-African community of practice and action-learning network based at Wits University in Johannesburg — connecting civic-tech practitioners, maintaining the African Civic Tech Atlas, co-managing the AU Civic Tech Fund, and running the annual Civic Tech Innovation Forum.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "civictech.africa confirmed live and indexed (Contact Us, About CTIN pages) via search corroboration; direct scripted fetch returns 403 (bot check); info@civictech.africa contact matches.", "url": "https://civictech.africa", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-04-30", "note": "Latest post: Civic Tech Innovation Network Annual Report: 2024/25", "url": "https://civictech.africa/civic-tech-innovation-network-annual-report-2024-25/" } }, "contact_email": "info@civictech.africa", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -26.2041, "longitude": 28.0473, "name": "Johannesburg, South Africa" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "darkenu", "title": "Darkenu", "status": "active", "country": "IL", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://darkenu.org.il/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/darkenu.png", "summary": "Israel's largest civic movement (400,000+ supporters) defending rule of law, democratic participation, and fighting corruption — founded independent media outlet DemocraTV, and led mass protests against the 2023 judicial overhaul.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-12-02", "note": "website loaded. It mentioned that it was in the news פורסם: 17.11.25, 15:30 | עודכן: 02.12.25, 15:50 'חנוכה 2025: כל מה שאפשר לעשות עם הילדים בחג'" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Direct fetch blocked (403, bot protection); corroborated active via Wikidata, AllMEP, and Jerusalem Post — still Israel's largest civic movement running DemocraTV in 2026.", "url": "https://darkenu.org.il/en", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "thisis@darkenu.org.il", "contact_phone": "+972-3-5168005", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 32.0853, "longitude": 34.7818, "name": "Tel Aviv, Israel" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "decidim", "title": "Decidim", "status": "active", "country": "ES", "type": "platform", "website": "https://decidim.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/decidim.svg", "summary": "An open-source participatory democracy framework used by 400+ governments and organisations worldwide — citizen proposals, participatory budgeting, consultations, and collaborative legislation.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "e-government", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://decidim.org/blog/feed.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, participatory-democracy framework content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://decidim.org", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-03", "note": "Latest post: Decidim and the New York City Civic Engagement Commission formalise Partnership ", "url": "https://decidim.org/blog/2026-07-06-decidim-and-the-new-york-city-civic-engagement-commission-formalise-partnership-with-a-memorandum-of-understanding/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hola@decidim.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://decidim.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 41.3874, "longitude": 2.1686, "name": "Barcelona, Spain" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "delibera-brasil", "title": "Delibera Brasil", "status": "active", "country": "BR", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://deliberabrasil.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/delibera-brasil.png", "summary": "A Brazilian deliberative democracy organisation that designs and runs citizens' assemblies and minipublics using sortition — operating climate assemblies in the Amazon, minipublics in São Paulo's periphery, and theatre-based follow-up to turn assembly recommendations into policy.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active; mission summary matches (sortition-based minipublics, climate assemblies in Pará/Mozambique, São Paulo urban-safety deliberation). Contact info (email/phone) on site matches recorded contact:.", "url": "https://deliberabrasil.org", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://deliberabrasil.org/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "comunicacao@deliberabrasil.org", "contact_phone": "+55 11 95381-1356", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -23.5505, "longitude": -46.6333, "name": "São Paulo, Brazil" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-club", "title": "Democracy Club", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://democracyclub.org.uk", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-club.svg", "summary": "A UK civic tech nonprofit building free, open data infrastructure for elections — candidate databases, polling place finders, and ward boundary data used by the BBC, The Guardian, and local councils.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/feed/", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, UK elections open-data content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://democracyclub.org.uk", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-31", "note": "Latest post: Mapping Northern Ireland's proposed polling places", "url": "https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/07/31/mapping-northern-irelands-proposed-polling-places/" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-07-31", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@democracyclub.org.uk", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.4862, "longitude": -1.8904, "name": "Birmingham, UK" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-deutschland", "title": "DEMOCRACY Deutschland", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "civil-society", "website": "https://democracy-app.de", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-deutschland.png", "summary": "A German volunteer-run nonprofit that brings the Bundestag to citizens' smartphones — users can vote on live parliamentary procedures and compare their choices with how their actual representatives voted.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — live Bundestag session tracker showing Sept 21-25 2026 sitting week; contact info unchanged.", "url": "https://democracy-app.de", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "contact@democracy-deutschland.de", "contact_phone": "+49 176 470 40 213", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.52, "longitude": 13.405, "name": "Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-earth", "title": "Democracy Earth Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "AR", "type": "platform", "website": "https://democracy.earth", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-earth.png", "summary": "An open-source civic technology foundation building quadratic voting and sovereign identity tools — aiming to make democratic participation internet-native and censorship-resistant.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "liquid-democracy", "direct-democracy", "decentralized-autonomous-organization" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-09", "date": "2026-06-09", "note": "Site confirmed active; no blog or news feed found" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active (2015-2026 copyright, current SAIRI/AI-agent coverage); no public email or contact form found on site.", "url": "https://democracy.earth", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -34.6037, "longitude": -58.3816, "name": "Buenos Aires, Argentina" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-foundation", "title": "The Democracy Foundation", "status": "inactive", "country": "US", "type": "research", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://democracy.foundation/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-foundation.png", "summary": "An internet project dedicated to research and design of innovative decision-making methods, best known for a curated list of e-democracy and e-voting projects that remains maintained.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Site liveness recheck: website live but project dormant (no recent activity); website field corrected from Wayback URL to live URL per defunct-orgs-only convention", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-in-colour", "title": "Democracy in Colour", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://democracyincolour.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-in-colour-icon.png", "summary": "Australia's first national racial justice advocacy organisation led by people of colour, campaigning to address structural racism in Australian political, media, and civic institutions and to build the political power of communities of colour.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy", "isegoria" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://democracyincolour.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — current Racism Out and Thriving in Colour campaigns; contact email confirmed.", "url": "https://democracyincolour.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-29", "note": "Latest post: Democracy in Colour welcomes court ruling upholding racial discrimination findin", "url": "https://democracyincolour.org/democracy-in-colour-welcomes-court-ruling-upholding-racial-discrimination-finding-against-pauline-hanson/" } }, "contact_email": "info@democracyincolour.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-international", "title": "Democracy International", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.democracy-international.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-international.png", "summary": "A Cologne-based NGO advocating for direct democracy and citizen participation globally — organises the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy and supports reform campaigns worldwide.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "citizens-assembly", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://www.democracy-international.org/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — news/events through Oct 2026; contact form and phone confirmed, no separate public email found.", "url": "https://www.democracy-international.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.democracy-international.org/rss.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-13", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.democracy-international.org/news", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contact@democracy-international.org", "contact_phone": "+49 221 669 66 50", "contact_form": "https://www.democracy-international.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 50.9333, "longitude": 6.95, "name": "Cologne, Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-next", "title": "DemocracyNext", "status": "active", "country": "EU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.demnext.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-next.png", "summary": "An international research institute focused on the theory and practice of sortition-based democracy — replacing elections with randomly selected assemblies as the primary decision-making mechanism.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition", "isegoria" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-01-02", "note": "website loaded. https://www.demnext.org/news mentions www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/02/uk-museums-embrace-citizens-assemblies-to-frame-their-futures 2 January 2026 'How UK museums are embracing citizens’ assemblies to help frame their futures'", "url": "https://www.demnext.org/news" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, sortition/assembly research content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.demnext.org", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-06-24", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.demnext.org/news", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-27", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.demnext.org/sitemaps-1-sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@demnext.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 55.6761, "longitude": 12.5683, "name": "Copenhagen, Denmark" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-technologies", "title": "Democracy Technologies", "status": "active", "country": "AT", "type": "research", "website": "https://democracy-technologies.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracy-technologies.png", "summary": "A curated database and research initiative mapping the global landscape of democratic innovation tools — tracking 200+ platforms across participatory, deliberative, and digital democracy.", "concepts": [ "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "democracy", "direct-democracy", "meta-organisation" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2024-09-04", "note": "website loaded. Last article at September 4, 2024 AI-Washing Is an Opportunity" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active, recent articles present; still an online magazine + database mapping democratic innovation tools.", "url": "https://democracy-technologies.org", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-09-03", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "contact@democracy-technologies.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.2082, "longitude": 16.3738, "name": "Vienna, Austria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracy-without-borders", "title": "Democracy Without Borders", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.democracywithoutborders.org", "logo": "", "summary": "An international NGO seated in Berlin promoting global democracy through institutional reform of the United Nations — coordinator of the campaigns for a UN Parliamentary Assembly and a UN World Citizens' Initiative.", "concepts": [ "organizations-of-world-citizens" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Page created and verified against live sources (org website, Wikipedia) during landscape gap research", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.52, "longitude": 13.405, "name": "Berlin, Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "democracyco", "title": "DemocracyCo", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "practice", "website": "https://www.democracyco.com.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracyco.svg", "summary": "An Adelaide-based deliberative democracy facilitation practice co-founded by Emily Jenke and Emma Fletcher, designing and delivering citizens' juries and deliberative panels for government and industry across Australia and internationally.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "consensus-mapping" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://www.democracyco.com.au/feed/", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — current team leadership and both co-founders' phone numbers match recorded contact.", "url": "https://www.democracyco.com.au", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-05-02", "note": "Latest post: Housing Amplifcation", "url": "https://www.democracyco.com.au/housing-amplifcation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=housing-amplifcation" } }, "contact_email": "emily@democracyco.com.au", "contact_phone": "0421 098 355 (Emma Fletcher, co-founder) / 0427 834 062 (Emily Jenke, co-founder)", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -34.9285, "longitude": 138.6007, "name": "Adelaide, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracylab", "title": "DemocracyLab", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.democracylab.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democracylab.png", "summary": "A Seattle-based non-profit connecting skilled volunteers with civic technology projects — an open matchmaking platform for the civic tech movement, with 7,000+ volunteers and 300+ projects supported.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-09-10", "note": "website loaded. Last blog post is at https://blog.democracylab.org/10-000-volunteers-and-counting/ 10 Sep 2025 '10,000 Volunteers and Counting!'", "url": "https://blog.democracylab.org/10-000-volunteers-and-counting/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Site is a JS-rendered SPA (200 OK, shell only to plain fetch); corroborated active via MIT Solve/blog/GitHub — 7,000+ volunteers, 300+ projects matches summary.", "url": "https://www.democracylab.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.democracylab.org/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.democracylab.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 47.6062, "longitude": -122.3321, "name": "Seattle, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democracyos", "title": "DemocracyOS", "status": "inactive", "country": "AR", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://democracyos.org", "logo": "", "summary": "An influential open-source platform (2012–2017) for publishing proposals, hosting public debate, and collecting structured votes — used by the Argentine Senate and early vTaiwan.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "democratie-ouverte", "title": "Démocratie Ouverte", "status": "active", "country": "FR", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.democratieouverte.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/democratie-ouverte.jpg", "summary": "A French non-partisan association with over 10 years of democratic innovation work — experimenting with participatory tools, advising public bodies, and convening the French democratic innovation network.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "direct-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "date": "2026-05-18", "note": "Latest post: co-présidence engagée pour le renforcement de la démocratie", "url": "https://www.democratieouverte.org/le-blog" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — 2025 Activity Report and 2026 events listed; contact info matches frontmatter.", "url": "https://www.democratieouverte.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "hint": "no_markup", "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" } }, "contact_email": "contact@democratieouverte.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.8566, "longitude": 2.3522, "name": "France" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "designing-open-democracy", "title": "Designing Open Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.designingopendemocracy.com", "logo": "/assets/dodlogo_transparent.png", "summary": "An Australian-operated, nonpartisan forum of process engineers, social architects, and philosophers exploring how technology, engineering, and social-systems design can improve democracy — running since December 2016. This is DOD's own site, so this entry is self-authored rather than third-party researched.", "concepts": [ "meta-organisation", "deliberative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "cybernetic-governance" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-07", "date": "2026-08-07", "note": "This entry, and everything else on this site, is evidence of its own activity." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Self-authored entry; site confirmed live, latest blog post is the 25 Aug 2026 International Day of Democracy panel announcement (event already recorded). Mission description and links unchanged.", "url": "https://www.designingopendemocracy.com", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://designingopendemocracy.com/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [ { "label": "Telegram", "note": "main point of contact; day-to-day discussion and coordination", "type": "telegram", "url": "https://t.me/joinchat/HNk_UBX8A7jBPJPbAZU5Zg" } ], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "diem25", "title": "DiEM25", "status": "active", "country": "EU", "type": "movement", "website": "https://diem25.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/diem25.png", "summary": "A pan-European political movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis in 2016, calling for radical democratisation of EU institutions through transparency, a transnational constitutional assembly, and coordinated progressive politics across member states.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "democracy", "liberal-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "https://diem25.org/news/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with fresh Sep 2026 content: 2026 Coordinating Collective election results (15 Sep), Axel Springer Award protest (16 Sep), Serbia commentary (14 Sep). Press-room page confirms press@diem25.org as active media contact.", "url": "https://diem25.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://diem25.org/news/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "date": "2026-06-04", "hint": "bot_blocked", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://diem25.org/news" } }, "contact_email": "press@diem25.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 50.8503, "longitude": 4.3517, "name": "Brussels, Belgium" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "digidem-lab", "title": "Digidem Lab", "status": "active", "country": "SE", "type": "consultancy", "website": "https://digidemlab.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/digidem-lab.png", "summary": "A Swedish democracy lab designing and implementing digital participatory processes — an official Decidim partner running citizens' assemblies, participatory budgets, and community organising training for municipalities and organisations across Sweden and the Nordics.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "deliberative-democracy", "citizens-assembly", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "About page confirms org still active as an official Decidim partner running citizen dialogues for Nordic municipalities; mission summary matches. Recorded contact email (support@digidemlab.org) still current; a named director address was also found but a general address is already on file.", "url": "https://digidemlab.org/en/about/", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-02", "note": "Latest post: Panelsamtal med Audrey Tang", "url": "https://digidemlab.org/news/panelsamtal-kan-deltagandedemokrati-bli-en-motkraft-i-en-orolig-tid/" } }, "contact_email": "support@digidemlab.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 57.7089, "longitude": 11.9746, "name": "Gothenburg, Sweden" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "digipol", "title": "DigiPol", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://digipol.app/", "logo": "", "summary": "An open-source Australian app that lets citizens browse, read, and vote on bills before the Federal Parliament.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "e-government", "liquid-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "digital-rights-watch", "title": "Digital Rights Watch (DRW)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://digitalrightswatch.org.au", "logo": "", "summary": "A Melbourne-based Australian charity campaigning for transparency, accountability and oversight over government and corporate use of personal data — founded in 2016 in response to Australia's mandatory telecommunications data retention scheme.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-21", "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Site fetched directly; current campaigns include an \"AI Harms Register\", a \"Right to Refuse AI Scribes in Healthcare\" petition, and work on technology-facilitated gender-based violence.", "url": "https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: Submission to AUKUS Inquiry", "url": "/2026/09/10/submission-to-aukus-inquiry/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@digitalrightswatch.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [ { "type": "instagram", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/drwaus" }, { "type": "mastodon", "url": "https://aus.social/@drwaus" }, { "type": "bluesky", "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/drwaus.bsky.social" }, { "type": "github", "url": "https://github.com/digitalrightswatch" } ], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-10", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "e-democracy", "title": "E-Democracy", "status": "inactive", "country": "US", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://e-democracy.org", "logo": "", "summary": "A Minnesota-based nonprofit (founded 1994) pioneering online civic participation — running neighbourhood discussion forums that connect residents directly with local elected officials.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-07-05", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-09", "note": "blog.e-democracy.org returning 503; Wayback capture 2026-05-16 confirms recently alive — likely temporary outage" }, "dod": { "checked": "2026-07-05", "date": "2026-07-05", "note": "e-democracy.org redirects to blog.e-democracy.org, which returned 503 on this check; same intermittent-outage pattern as prior run's Wayback corroboration" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 44.9537, "longitude": -93.09, "name": "St. Paul, Minnesota, US" }, "activity_date": "2026-07-05", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "earthworker-cooperative", "title": "Earthworker Cooperative", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "cooperative", "website": "https://earthworker.coop", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/earthworker-cooperative.png", "summary": "A Victorian network of worker-owned cooperatives focused on clean energy manufacturing and services — building a democratic economy as a response to both the ecological crisis and economic inequality.", "concepts": [ "worker-cooperatives", "economic-democracy", "cooperative" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "https://earthworker.coop/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with recent news; confirmed Victorian worker-cooperative network, scope spans clean energy plus other cooperatives.", "url": "https://earthworker.coop", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-13", "note": "Latest post: Remembering Katherine Cunningham", "url": "https://earthworker.coop/remembering-katherine-cunningham/" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://earthworker.coop/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -38.2466, "longitude": 146.4307, "name": "Morwell, Victoria, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "economist-intelligence-unit", "title": "Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.eiu.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/economist-intelligence-unit.png", "summary": "The research and analysis division of the British media company The Economist Group — publisher of the annual Democracy Index, one of the two most widely cited global measures of democratic health alongside the V-Dem Democracy Indices.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "liberal-democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-16", "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live; Democracy Index 2025 campaign page current as of September 2026", "url": "https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2025/" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.eiu.com/n/sitemap_index.xml", "checked": "2026-09-18" } }, "contact_email": "london@eiu.com", "contact_phone": "+44 (0) 20 7576 8181", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "eisa", "title": "Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)", "status": "active", "country": "ZA", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.eisa.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/eisa.jpg", "summary": "A Johannesburg-based independent non-profit supporting credible elections and strong democratic institutions across Africa — conducting election observation, technical assistance, and governance programming in 16+ African countries since 1996.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://www.eisa.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — recent news and Abidjan regional office noted; contact info matches frontmatter.", "url": "https://www.eisa.org", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-26", "note": "Latest post: From Coalition Chaos to Democratic Stability: Reforming South Africa’s Local Gov", "url": "https://www.eisa.org/from-coalition-chaos-to-democratic-stability-reforming-south-africas-local-government/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@eisa.org", "contact_phone": "+27113816000", "contact_form": "https://www.eisa.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -26.2041, "longitude": 28.0473, "name": "Johannesburg, South Africa" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "electoral-reform-society", "title": "Electoral Reform Society", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/electoral-reform-society.png", "summary": "The UK's oldest and largest electoral reform organisation (founded 1884), campaigning for proportional representation, citizens' assemblies, and democratic renewal.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "sortition", "deliberative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/feed/", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, proportional representation/electoral reform content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: First Past the Post would have given the AfD nearly every seat in Saxony-Anhalt", "url": "https://electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post-would-have-given-the-afd-nearly-every-seat-in-saxony-anhalt/", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-and-research/blog/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "ers@electoral-reform.org.uk", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, UK" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "electoral-royal-commission", "title": "Electoral Royal Commission (Australia)", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://electionroyalcommission.org.au/", "logo": "", "summary": "An Australian campaign initiated by Pirate Party Australia calling for a formal Royal Commission into electoral and voting reform — the dedicated site now redirects to the Pirate Party.", "concepts": [ "preferential-voting", "representative-democracy", "mixed-member-proportional-representation" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "electronic-frontiers-australia", "title": "Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://efa.org.au", "logo": "", "summary": "Australia's longest-running digital rights organisation, established in 1994 — a volunteer-run non-profit advocating for privacy, free expression and civil liberties online through parliamentary submissions, regulatory complaints and public campaigns.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-21", "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "EFA's own site blocks automated fetches; web-search fallback found active 2026 involvement in the \"Stop Killing the Internet\" coalition (launched July 2026) opposing internet age-verification/identity measures, alongside DRW and 17 other digital-rights, privacy and child-safety organisations.", "url": "https://securitybrief.com.au/story/electronic-frontiers-australia-joins-internet-control-fight" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: International Day of Democracy 2026 and the Business of Outrage: How Social Medi", "url": "https://efa.org.au/international-day-of-democracy-2026/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@efa.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [ { "type": "mastodon", "url": "https://aus.social/@EFA" }, { "label": "X (Twitter)", "type": "x", "url": "https://x.com/efa_oz" } ], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-09-10", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "espacio-publico", "title": "Espacio Público", "status": "active", "country": "CL", "type": "think-tank", "website": "https://www.espaciopublico.cl", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/espacio-publico.png", "summary": "An independent Chilean think tank working on democracy and anti-corruption, innovation and ICT, diversity and human rights, and urban policy — named among the '100 Think Tanks to Watch 2025'.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "radical-transparency", "deliberative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active with August 2026 opinion columns and September 2024/2026 seminars; nine-theme think-tank mission and '100 Think Tanks to Watch 2025' recognition (already recorded) both match. Contact email matches recorded contact:.", "url": "https://www.espaciopublico.cl", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: Fondos generacionales: expertos abordan desafíos de su implementación en Espacio", "url": "https://espaciopublico.cl/fondos-generacionales-expertos-abordan-desafios-de-su-implementacion-en-espacio-publico/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contacto@espaciopublico.cl", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.4489, "longitude": -70.6693, "name": "Santiago, Chile" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "ethelo", "title": "Ethelo", "status": "active", "country": "CA", "type": "platform", "website": "https://ethelo.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/ethelo.png", "summary": "A Canadian collective intelligence platform used by 100+ municipalities and the Government of Canada — surfaces the least polarising, most broadly supported outcomes from large group consultations.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "direct-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "consensus-mapping", "collective-intelligence" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "https://ethelo.com/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active (2025-dated content); contact remains popup-form-only, no direct email found, matches existing note.", "url": "https://ethelo.com", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-03-30", "note": "Latest post: Engaged California Program", "url": "https://ethelo.com/case-study/engaged-california-program/" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://ethelo.com", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 49.2827, "longitude": -123.1207, "name": "Vancouver, Canada" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "ette-media", "title": "Ette Media", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "media", "website": "https://www.ettemedia.com/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/ette-media.png", "summary": "An independent Australian media-literacy outlet founded by journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, teaching audiences to spot spin, unpack headlines, and identify the commercial and political interests behind news coverage — via its podcast 'We Used to be Journos' and multi-platform content.", "concepts": [ "tribal-epistemology" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with posts dated 15-16 Sep 2026 (pay-for-play smart TV story, Ettention Please roundup); admin@ettemedia.com contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://www.ettemedia.com/", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: A timeline of media reports Netanyahu knew about October 7 before it happened", "url": "https://www.ettemedia.com/a-timeline-of-media-reports-netanyahu-knew-about-october-7-before-it-happened/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "admin@ettemedia.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "fairvote", "title": "FairVote", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://fairvote.org", "logo": "", "summary": "A US electoral-reform advocacy organisation founded in 1992, campaigning for ranked-choice voting and proportional representation — the national driving force behind RCV adoption in American elections.", "concepts": [ "preferential-voting", "mixed-member-proportional-representation", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Page created and verified against live sources (org website, Wikipedia) during landscape gap research", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-08", "note": "Latest post: Three cities to vote on ranked choice voting this November", "url": "https://fairvote.org/three-cities-to-vote-on-ranked-choice-voting-this-november/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 38.9942, "longitude": -77.0272, "name": "Silver Spring, Maryland, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-08", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "fbk", "title": "Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK)", "status": "active", "country": "RU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://fbk.info/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/fbk.webp", "summary": "An anti-corruption and pro-democracy organisation founded by Alexei Navalny — producing high-profile investigations of Kremlin-linked corruption, now operating in exile after being designated 'extremist' (2021) and 'terrorist' (November 2025) by Russian authorities. Led by Yulia Navalnaya following Navalny's death in prison in February 2024.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-04", "note": "website up. News at https://fbk.info/en/news/ latest article https://fbk.info/en/news/navalny-archive 4 June 2026 'We are launching the Alexei Navalny Archive'", "url": "https://fbk.info/en/news/navalny-archive" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "fbk.info/en live with news dated 8-14 Sep 2026 (Smart Voting candidates, governor investigation, Navalny Archive memorial map); fbk@fbk.info contact confirmed current.", "url": "https://fbk.info/en", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "hint": "no_markup", "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" } }, "contact_email": "fbk@fbk.info", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 55.7558, "longitude": 37.6176, "name": "Moscow, Russia (origin; operates in exile)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "fide", "title": "FIDE — Federation for Innovation in Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "BE", "type": "network", "website": "https://fidemocracy.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/fide.webp", "summary": "An independent, nonpartisan federation advancing deliberative democratic culture across Europe and North America — training practitioners, designing citizens' assemblies for governments from municipal to international level, and evaluating process quality.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-17", "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active with 2026 news and training programmes; deliberative-democracy/citizens'-assembly mission matches. Recorded contact (europe@fidemocracy.org + form) still current; a separate north.america@fidemocracy.org address also exists but a general channel is already on file.", "url": "https://fidemocracy.org" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-09-01", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://fidemocracy.org/sitemap.xml" } }, "contact_email": "europe@fidemocracy.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://fidemocracy.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 50.8503, "longitude": 4.3517, "name": "Brussels, Belgium" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "flacso-cuba", "title": "FLACSO-Cuba", "status": "active", "country": "CU", "type": "research", "website": "https://flacso.org/pa%C3%ADs/cuba", "logo": "", "summary": "The Cuban chapter of the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO), based at the University of Havana — one of the few academic bodies in Cuba publishing empirical research on Cuba's Poder Popular governance system, electoral participation, and local government reform.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-04", "note": "website loaded. news in main page. Latest is 4 Jun 2026 'Communiqué for the death of Dr. Raúl Vega-Pacheco Researcher and teacher of FLACSO Mexico'" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, FLACSO Cuba chapter content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://flacso.org/pa%C3%ADs/cuba", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 23.1136, "longitude": -82.3666, "name": "Havana, Cuba" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "flux-party", "title": "Flux Party", "status": "deregistered", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://voteflux.org/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/flux.svg", "summary": "An Australian political party that uses Issue-Based Direct Democracy (IBDD) to let constituents direct how elected representatives vote in parliament.", "concepts": [ "issue-based-direct-democracy", "liquid-democracy", "prediction-markets" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "folio-collective", "title": "Folio Collective", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "practice", "website": "https://folio.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/folio-collective.jpg", "summary": "A Melbourne-based, nonpartisan not-for-profit forum that runs small-group \"Folio Conversations\" — structured public dialogue between diverse citizens and invited expert \"Conversation Leaders\" on issues of civic and democratic concern — under the explicit mission \"Democracy evolves one conversation at a time.", "concepts": [ "deliberative-democracy", "collective-intelligence" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "https://folio.org.au/events/RSS", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-09", "date": "2026-08-09", "note": "Confirmed active via own website: past events list runs to 29 Jul 2026" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site back up (www.folio.org.au reachable; apex folio.org.au returned 503); Sept 24 virtual event confirmed live with registration open", "url": "https://www.folio.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-19" } }, "contact_email": "connect@folio.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "foro-nacional-por-colombia", "title": "Foro Nacional por Colombia", "status": "active", "country": "CO", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://foro.org.co", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/foro-nacional-por-colombia.svg", "summary": "A long-established Colombian civil society foundation working on citizen participation, peace accord implementation monitoring, and extractive industry governance — publishes Revista Foro (edition 118), runs anti-vote-wasting campaigns, and operates regional chapters in Bogotá and Cali.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active with 2025-2026 events/publications; citizen-participation/peace-accord-monitoring mission matches. Contact email had gone stale (foro@foro.org.co no longer appears on site) — updated to the site's current general address, contactenos@foro.org.co.", "url": "https://foro.org.co", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-04-21", "note": "Latest post: Informe Cuatro. Observatorio de la participación ciudadana en la implementación ", "url": "https://foro.org.co/informe-cuatro-observatorio-de-la-participacion-ciudadana-en-la-implementacion-del-acuerdo-final/" } }, "contact_email": "contactenos@foro.org.co", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 4.711, "longitude": -74.0721, "name": "Bogotá, Colombia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "fundacion-solon", "title": "Fundación Solón", "status": "active", "country": "BO", "type": "research", "website": "https://fundacionsolon.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/fundacion-solon.png", "summary": "A Bolivian research foundation led by Pablo Solón — former government minister and UN ambassador under Morales — developing Vivir Bien (Buen Vivir) as a substantive governance theory, and studying how plurinational constitutional design functions in practice.", "concepts": [ "buen-vivir" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://fundacionsolon.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://fundacionsolon.org", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Latest post: 40% de Bolivia para los mineros", "url": "https://fundacionsolon.org/40-de-bolivia-para-los-mineros/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@fundacionsolon.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -16.5, "longitude": -68.15, "name": "La Paz, Bolivia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "fundacja-stocznia", "title": "Fundacja Stocznia", "status": "active", "country": "PL", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://stocznia.org.pl", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/fundacja-stocznia.png", "summary": "A Polish foundation working across citizen participation, social innovation, and research — ran Poland's first citizens' assembly (on energy costs) and hosts the country's leading participation practitioners' forum.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active (105 incubated social innovations, 2026/2027 course enrolment); citizen-participation/social-innovation/research mission matches. Recorded contact (email + form) still current.", "url": "https://stocznia.org.pl", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-25", "note": "Latest post: Wspólne oświadczenie polskich i ukraińskich organizacji, działaczy i działaczek ", "url": "https://stocznia.org.pl/2026/06/25/wspolne-oswiadczenie-polskich-i-ukrainskich-organizacji-dzialaczy-i-dzialaczek-spolecznych/" } }, "contact_email": "stocznia@stocznia.org.pl", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://stocznia.org.pl/kontakt", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.2297, "longitude": 21.0122, "name": "Warsaw, Poland" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "fusion-party", "title": "Fusion Party", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://www.fusionparty.org.au", "logo": "", "summary": "An Australian political party formed in 2021 from the merger of five minor parties (Science, Pirate, Secular, Vote Planet, Climate Change Justice), retaining them as semi-autonomous internal branches. Platform includes political donation disclosure, an anti-corruption commission, whistleblower protections, and lowering the voting age to 16.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-15", "date": "2026-08-15", "note": "Wikipedia and party site confirm active registration; fielded candidates in the 2025 federal election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Party_(Australia)" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.fusionparty.org.au/sitemap_index.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.05, "longitude": 146.0833, "name": "Mansfield, Victoria, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "g0v", "title": "g0v (gov zero)", "status": "active", "country": "TW", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://g0v.tw", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/g0v.svg", "summary": "A Taiwanese civic tech community that forks government websites and services to make them more open, usable, and participatory — best known internationally for co-developing the vTaiwan deliberation platform.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "e-government", "consensus-mapping" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/cpcf6iv5pt9l6gl2ue3svo63e8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. FYI they have an english version at https://g0v.tw/intl/en/ . In https://g0v.tw/intl/en/event/ there is a calendar where there appears to be various events.", "url": "https://g0v.tw/intl/en/event/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with community updates and bimonthly hackathons; confirmed Taiwanese civic tech community, scope broader than just forking gov sites.", "url": "https://g0v.tw", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "ical": { "date": "2026-08-08", "note": "Latest event: COSCUP _ AI 開放治理 & Civic Tech 議程", "url": "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/cpcf6iv5pt9l6gl2ue3svo63e8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics", "checked": "2026-08-17" }, "scrape": { "hint": "no_markup", "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" } }, "contact_email": "g0v-talks@googlegroups.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 25.033, "longitude": 121.5654, "name": "Taipei, Taiwan" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "g1000", "title": "G1000", "status": "active", "country": "BE", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.g1000.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/g1000.png", "summary": "A Belgian civic innovation initiative that pioneered large-scale citizens' assemblies, bringing together randomly selected citizens to deliberate on complex public issues.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition", "consensus-mapping" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "https://www.g1000.org/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-05-11", "note": "website loaded. They got a news section at https://www.g1000.org/en/news where latest is 11.05.2026 'Your Voice Deserves a Seat: Launching Our Campaign for a permanent Citizens’ Assembly'", "url": "https://www.g1000.org/en/news" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with 2026 news (banking citizen panel, permanent Senate Citizens' Council campaign); confirmed Belgian deliberative-democracy initiative.", "url": "https://www.g1000.org", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2022-10-02", "note": "Latest post: Future Forum Zoet Water", "url": "https://www.g1000.org/en/cases/future-forum-zoet-water" } }, "contact_email": "info@g1000.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.g1000.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 50.8503, "longitude": 4.3517, "name": "Brussels, Belgium" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "gilt", "title": "G!LT (Offene Demokratie)", "status": "active", "country": "AT", "type": "party", "website": "https://www.gilt.at", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/gilt.png", "summary": "An Austrian open democracy party founded by actor and political activist Roland Düringer, arguing that representative democracy as currently practised is broken and proposing citizen-led alternatives.", "concepts": [ "liquid-democracy", "direct-democracy", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://www.gilt.at/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://www.gilt.at", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.gilt.at/feed", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "kontakt@gilt.at", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.2082, "longitude": 16.3738, "name": "Vienna, Austria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "golos", "title": "Golos", "status": "inactive", "country": "RU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.golos.org/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/golos.png", "summary": "Russia's only independent nationwide election-monitoring organisation for 25 years — training observers, documenting electoral violations, and operating a public 'Map of Violations' platform. Dissolved in July 2025 after its co-chair was convicted under foreign agent legislation.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 55.7558, "longitude": 37.6176, "name": "Moscow, Russia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "goree-institute", "title": "Gorée Institute", "status": "active", "country": "SN", "type": "research", "website": "https://goreeinstitut.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/goree-institute.png", "summary": "A pan-African civil society organisation founded in 1992 on Gorée Island, Senegal — working on political governance and electoral processes, peace consolidation, and democratic dialogue across West Africa, with diplomatic status and a nearly 35-year institutional track record.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Direct fetch timed out twice (network issue reaching goreeinstitut.org); corroborated active via web search — org's own site indexes a 24-26 Mar 2026 Annual Symposium (9th edition, 'Youth and Inclusive Governance', already recorded as an event) and a 16-17 Feb 2026 Dakar regional democracy conference. Mission/location unchanged.", "url": "https://goreeinstitut.org", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Latest post: Renforcement du dialogue stratégique entre le Sénégal et l’Allemagne autour des ", "url": "https://goreeinstitut.org/renforcement-du-dialogue-strategique-entre-le-senegal-et-lallemagne-autour-des-enjeux-de-paix-de-securite-et-de-gouvernance/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@goreeinstitut.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://goreeinstitut.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 14.7167, "longitude": -17.4677, "name": "Dakar, Senegal" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "governance-hub-africa", "title": "Governance Hub Africa", "status": "active", "country": "KE", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://governancehubafrica.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/governance-hub-africa.png", "summary": "A non-partisan regional platform working at the intersection of democratic governance, elections, digital innovation, and policy reform across all 55 AU member states — active through 2026 with programmes on civic empowerment, electoral integrity, and digital democracy.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "democracy-tools", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Contact page rendered via fetch (still a JS-only shell to plain curl) confirms org still active; civic-empowerment/electoral-integrity/digital-democracy mission matches. Contact audit found a public email and phone not previously recorded, added to contact:.", "url": "https://governancehubafrica.org", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "info@governancehubafrica.org", "contact_phone": "+233 256 124 067", "contact_form": "https://governancehubafrica.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -1.2921, "longitude": 36.8219, "name": "Nairobi, Kenya" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "grattan-institute", "title": "Grattan Institute", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://grattan.edu.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/grattan-institute.png", "summary": "A Melbourne-based public policy think tank with a democracy and governance program — producing research on electoral integrity, parliamentary reform, campaign finance, and trust in government. Not democracy-specialist; covers a broad range of policy areas.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-15", "rss_feed": "https://grattan.edu.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-15", "note": "Expanded page: real logo wordmark extracted from site header SVG (previous logo: was just the favicon), founding funding detail, CEO succession timeline (Daley to Wood to Sathanapally), corrected publication titles/links, added Electoral Reform Act critique with direct quote, linked Susan McKinnon Foundation as a funder", "checked": "2026-08-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-26", "note": "Latest post: Reform the system so disabled Australians can have better jobs and fairer wages", "url": "https://grattan.edu.au/reform-the-system-so-disabled-australians-can-have-better-jobs-and-fairer-wages/" } }, "contact_email": "info@grattan.edu.au", "contact_phone": "+61 3 9035 9881", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8006, "longitude": 144.9668, "name": "Carlton, Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "healthy-democracy", "title": "Healthy Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "practice", "website": "https://healthydemocracy.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/healthy-democracy.svg", "summary": "A US non-profit that designs and runs Citizens' Initiative Reviews — structured deliberative processes where randomly selected citizens evaluate ballot measures and publish findings for the wider electorate.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://healthydemocracy.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://healthydemocracy.org", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-02-17", "note": "Latest post: Want residents, not politicians, to find answers to LA’s thorniest problems? Try", "url": "https://healthydemocracy.org/la-assembly-news/2026/02/16/want-residents-not-politicians-to-find-answers-to-las-thorniest-problems-try-a-civic-assembly/" } }, "contact_email": "info@healthydemocracy.org", "contact_phone": "+1 503 841 6865", "contact_form": "https://healthydemocracy.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 45.5231, "longitude": -122.6765, "name": "Portland, Oregon, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "helen-clark-foundation", "title": "Helen Clark Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "think-tank", "website": "https://helenclark.foundation", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/helen-clark-foundation.png", "summary": "An independent public policy think tank based at AUT Auckland — one of four research streams is 'public policy, governance and the future of democracy,' publishing major work on democratic reform ahead of the 2026 New Zealand general election.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-17", "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active with Aug-Sep 2026 research output; public-policy/governance/democracy research-stream mission confirmed current via web search (Jonathan Boston-led stream still named 'public policy, governance and the future of democracy'). Recorded contact still current.", "url": "https://helenclark.foundation" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod" } }, "contact_email": "contact@helenclark.foundation", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://helenclark.foundation/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -36.8485, "longitude": 174.7633, "name": "Auckland, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "hkdc", "title": "Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC)", "status": "active", "country": "CN", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.hkdc.us", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/hkdc.png", "summary": "A Washington DC-based organisation advocating for the restoration of democratic governance in Hong Kong — specifically the election-based accountability system promised under One Country, Two Systems, which was effectively dismantled following the 2020 National Security Law.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "liberal-democracy", "constitutional-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-02-10", "note": "website loaded. News is https://www.hkdc.us/news where latest is February 10, 2026 'Crossing a New Line: The Conviction of Anna Kwok’s Father'", "url": "https://www.hkdc.us/news" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://www.hkdc.us", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-02-09", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.hkdc.us/news" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-15", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.hkdc.us/sitemap.xml" } }, "contact_email": "info@hkdc.us", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 22.3193, "longitude": 114.1694, "name": "Hong Kong (origin; operates in diaspora)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "horizon-state", "title": "Horizon State", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://horizonstate.com/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/horizon-state.png", "summary": "An Australian blockchain voting platform bringing secure, transparent digital voting to governments and organisations. Collapsed in 2019 under legal costs, was bought out by its community, and relaunched — relaunching its token in 2024 and currently offering managed elections.", "concepts": [ "end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-22", "note": "Domain observed redirecting to a registrar parking page on 2026-08-22 (was live with archived monthly copies through Jun 2026). Event citations for the Nov 2019 relaunch and Dec 2024 HST token launch repointed to their Wayback captures; status left active pending a recheck in case the parking is transient", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260419153549/https://horizonstate.com/hst-token/", "checked": "2026-08-22" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-22", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "icdt", "title": "Institute for China's Democratic Transition (ICDT)", "status": "active", "country": "CN", "type": "research", "website": "https://chinademocrats.org/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/icdt.png", "summary": "A diaspora research institute focused specifically on constitutional frameworks and transition planning for democratic governance in China — studying separation of powers, institutional design, and comparative lessons from democratic transitions elsewhere.", "concepts": [ "constitutional-democracy", "democracy", "liberal-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. Unsure if active... non of the social media links loaded. No news or blog." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://chinademocrats.org/en", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-09", "note": "Latest post: 王天成 | 异议人士有门必修课：《革命蓝图》中文版序", "url": "https://chinademocrats.org/?p=7010", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "office@chinademocrat.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 39.9042, "longitude": 116.4074, "name": "Beijing, China (origin; operates in diaspora)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "instituto-update", "title": "Instituto Update", "status": "active", "country": "BR", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.institutoupdate.org.br", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/instituto-update.svg", "summary": "A Brazilian regional platform for political innovation and imagination in the Global South — connecting, strengthening, and producing knowledge to expand political participation, especially for Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ women.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active; regional political-innovation-for-women mission summary matches. Recorded contact email still current (site footer shows a mailto link to the same address family).", "url": "https://www.institutoupdate.org.br", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-08-09", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.institutoupdate.org.br/feed" } }, "contact_email": "contato@institutoupdate.org.br", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -23.5505, "longitude": -46.6333, "name": "São Paulo, Brazil" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "international-idea", "title": "International IDEA", "status": "active", "country": "SE", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.idea.int", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/international-idea.png", "summary": "An intergovernmental organisation supporting the sustainability of democratic institutions worldwide — providing comparative data, policy analysis, and technical assistance on elections, constitutions, and democratic governance.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "constitutional-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "https://www.idea.int/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with August/September 2026 publications and events; confirmed intergovernmental org supporting democracy worldwide.", "url": "https://www.idea.int", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: Brazil - General Elections, 4 and 25 October 2026", "url": "https://www.idea.int/node/161838", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "+46 8 698 3700", "contact_form": "https://www.idea.int/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 59.3293, "longitude": 18.0686, "name": "Stockholm, Sweden" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-10", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "internet-freedom-foundation", "title": "Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)", "status": "active", "country": "IN", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://internetfreedom.in", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/internet-freedom-foundation.svg", "summary": "A Delhi-based digital rights advocacy organisation defending civil liberties in Indian democracy — challenging internet shutdowns, surveillance, and data protection failures through litigation, policy engagement, and civic literacy since 2016.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "e-government", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://internetfreedom.in/rss", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://internetfreedom.in", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://internetfreedom.in/rss", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "media@internetfreedom.in", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 28.5355, "longitude": 77.249, "name": "New Delhi, India" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "involve", "title": "Involve", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.involve.org.uk", "logo": "", "summary": "A UK charity that develops and promotes public participation and deliberative democracy, advising governments on how to design and run genuine engagement processes.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "https://www.involve.org.uk/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-13", "note": "Latest post: We're hiring! Digital Communication Officer", "url": "https://www.involve.org.uk/news-opinion/jobs/were-hiring-digital-communication-officer", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@involve.org.uk", "contact_phone": "+44 20 3745 4334", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "israel-democracy-institute", "title": "Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)", "status": "active", "country": "IL", "type": "research", "website": "https://en.idi.org.il", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/israel-democracy-institute.png", "summary": "Israel's leading nonpartisan democracy research institute — publishing annual Israeli Democracy Index, researching electoral reform, parliamentary oversight, judicial independence, civil service reform, and anti-corruption mechanisms since 1991.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "mixed-member-proportional-representation" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-03", "note": "Website loaded. News in mainpage. https://en.idi.org.il/hurvitz/2026/ June 2-3, 2026 which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYhEo0j54w ' The Israel Democracy Institute's annual Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society 2026 | Recap '", "url": "https://en.idi.org.il/hurvitz/2026/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live (curl returned 503 bot-block; content confirmed via browser-rendered fetch showing Sept 2026 articles)", "url": "https://en.idi.org.il", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.idi.org.il/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@idi.org.il", "contact_phone": "972-2-530-0888", "contact_form": "https://en.idi.org.il/about/contact/", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 31.7683, "longitude": 35.2137, "name": "Jerusalem, Israel" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "its-rio", "title": "ITS Rio", "status": "active", "country": "BR", "type": "research", "website": "https://itsrio.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/its-rio-icon.png", "summary": "A Brazilian research institute studying the impact and future of technology on society — with a dedicated 'Democracy and Technology' research track running projects on AI's role in elections, digital policy deliberation, and algorithmic governance.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-04", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://itsrio.org/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contato@itsrio.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -22.9068, "longitude": -43.1729, "name": "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "janaagraha", "title": "Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "IN", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.janaagraha.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/janaagraha.svg", "summary": "A Bangalore-based organisation working on urban civic participation and local government reform in India — connecting citizens to municipal processes through ward-level engagement, civic technology, and the I Change My City platform since 2001.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "direct-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://www.janaagraha.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://www.janaagraha.org", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-05-14", "note": "Latest post: Too Many Cooks in the Urban Services Kitchen", "url": "https://www.janaagraha.org/too-many-cooks-in-the-urban-services-kitchen/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@janaagraha.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 12.9716, "longitude": 77.5946, "name": "Bangalore, India" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "join-gov-tw", "title": "Join (join.gov.tw)", "status": "active", "country": "TW", "type": "government", "website": "https://join.gov.tw", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/join-gov-tw.png", "summary": "Taiwan's official government-run public policy participation platform, launched 2015 by the National Development Council with assistance from Digital Minister Audrey Tang's office — the state's own successor to vTaiwan, reaching a broader public than vTaiwan's digital-policy remit ever did.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-07", "date": "2026-08-07", "note": "Site loaded, active proposals visible on homepage across a range of policy areas.", "url": "https://join.gov.tw/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Platform confirmed active and operational (dynamic data updates every 10 minutes; proposal/co-sign/public-consultation/oversight/participatory-budgeting sections all live). Recorded contact (form only) still current — a government platform, no public email listed.", "url": "https://join.gov.tw", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://join.gov.tw/?feed=rss2", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://join.gov.tw/contactus", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 25.033, "longitude": 121.5654, "name": "Taipei, Taiwan" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "kialo", "title": "Kialo", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "platform", "website": "https://www.kialo.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/kialo.webp", "summary": "The world's largest argument-mapping and structured deliberation platform — uses a debate-tree format to organise pros, cons, and sub-arguments. Proprietary and free to use, with a separate education product.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "consensus-mapping", "deliberative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "Website loaded. Its a web app. Copyright at bottom mention © Kialo 2026" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, argument-mapping/debate platform content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.kialo.com", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://support.kialo.com/en/contact/", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.7128, "longitude": -74.006, "name": "New York, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "kongreya-star", "title": "Kongra Star (Women's Congress)", "status": "active", "country": "SY", "type": "governance", "website": "https://kongra-star.org/eng/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/kongreya-star.png", "summary": "The women's governance organisation of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria — maintaining parallel governance structures at every level of the AANES system, from commune to canton, as a structural check on all decision-making.", "concepts": [ "democratic-confederalism" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://kongra-star.org/?feed=rss2", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, Kongra Star content confirmed active, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://kongra-star.org/eng/", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-08-09", "date": "2026-08-08", "note": "Latest post: Şêrîn Abbas :Azadiya Rêber Abdullah Ocalan şertê bingehîn e ji bo serkeftina pêv", "url": "https://kongra-star.org/?p=33202" } }, "contact_email": "info@kongra-star.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://kongra-star.org/eng/contact/", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 37.0527, "longitude": 41.227, "name": "Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "labsus", "title": "Labsus — Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà", "status": "active", "country": "IT", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.labsus.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/labsus.png", "summary": "An Italian association pioneering 'shared administration' (amministrazione condivisa) — a legal and practical framework for citizen-government collaboration pacts to manage common goods, adopted by hundreds of Italian cities.", "concepts": [ "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "democracy-tools" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active (2026/2027 course enrolment open, second Festival dell'Amministrazione Condivisa already recorded); shared-administration/subsidiarity mission matches. Recorded contact (form only) still current.", "url": "https://www.labsus.org", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-08", "note": "Latest post: Quando le parole si fanno cura: collaborazioni inaspettate per la nuova vita di ", "url": "https://www.labsus.org/2026/09/quando-le-parole-si-fanno-cura-collaborazioni-inaspettate-per-la-nuova-vita-di-una-baita-trentina/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.labsus.org/contatti", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 41.9028, "longitude": 12.4964, "name": "Rome, Italy" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "lamestream", "title": "Lamestream", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "media", "website": "https://www.lamestream.com.au/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/lamestream.png", "summary": "An independent Australian podcast, newsletter, and YouTube show launched in 2025 by journalists Osman Faruqi and Scott Mitchell, examining the collapse of trust in Australian legacy media — ownership consolidation, political interference in newsrooms, and whether independent and influencer-driven media can fill the gap.", "concepts": [ "tribal-epistemology" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live with posts dated 11-16 Sep 2026 (ABC executive cuts, Swans saga); podcast/YouTube/RSS all active.", "url": "https://www.lamestream.com.au/", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.lamestream.com.au/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contact@lamestream.com.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "lateral-economics", "title": "Lateral Economics", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.lateraleconomics.com.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/lateral-economics.webp", "summary": "An Australian policy economics consultancy led by Nicholas Gruen — advising on economic reform, innovation, and democratic governance, with a particular interest in how institutions can better incorporate citizens' knowledge and deliberation.", "concepts": [ "isegoria", "deliberative-democracy", "cognitive-division-of-labour", "prediction-markets", "citizens-assembly", "tribal-epistemology" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "Know personally that this is still active." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://www.lateraleconomics.com.au", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-09", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.lateraleconomics.com.au/sitemap.xml" } }, "contact_email": "mail@lateraleconomics.com.au", "contact_phone": "+61 403 077 732", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "lcps", "title": "Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)", "status": "active", "country": "LB", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.lcps-lebanon.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/lcps.jpg", "summary": "An independent Beirut-based think tank founded in 1989 producing policy research and advocacy on governance, political representation, decentralisation, and electoral reform in Lebanon and the Arab region.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "accountability-sink" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "date": "2026-03-05", "note": "Latest press item: القواعد الأميركيّة في مرمى النار (via Daraj Media)", "url": "https://www.lcps-lebanon.org/en/press" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://www.lcps-lebanon.org", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-03-05", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.lcps-lebanon.org/en/press" } }, "contact_email": "info@lcps-lebanon.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 33.8938, "longitude": 35.5018, "name": "Beirut, Lebanon" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "liquid-democracy-ev", "title": "Liquid Democracy e.V.", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://liqd.net/en/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/liquid-democracy-ev.png", "summary": "A Berlin-based non-profit developing open-source digital participation software — creators of Adhocracy and Adhocracy+, and operators of meinBerlin, Berlin's official participatory platform.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "liquid-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "e-government", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "date": "2026-05-28", "note": "Latest post: Halbzeit – 6 Monate Freiwilligendienst bei Liquid Democracy e.V.", "url": "https://liqd.net/en/blog/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://liqd.net/en/", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-26", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://liqd.net/en/blog/", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-08", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://liqd.net/en/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hallo@liqd.net", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.52, "longitude": 13.405, "name": "Berlin, Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "liquidfeedback", "title": "LiquidFeedback", "status": "active", "country": "DE", "type": "platform", "website": "https://liquidfeedback.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/liquidfeedback.png", "summary": "An open-source liquid democracy platform developed in Berlin — best known as the decision-making system used by the German Pirate Party, enabling delegated voting on policy initiatives.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "liquid-democracy", "direct-democracy", "issue-based-direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-09", "date": "2024-01-01", "note": "⚠ Status uncertain: site live at liquidfeedback.com (FlexiGuided GmbH, redirects from .org) but no public development news found since 2012. May be stable/maintenance-only. Needs manual check before accepting." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://liquidfeedback.com", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "sales@liquidfeedback.com", "contact_phone": "+49 30 9789 4550", "contact_form": "https://liquidfeedback.com/en/contact.html", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.52, "longitude": 13.405, "name": "Berlin, Germany" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "lismore-peoples-assembly", "title": "Lismore People's Assembly", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "practice", "website": "https://reclaim.org.au/lpa-home/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/lismore-peoples-assembly-icon.jpg", "summary": "A grassroots deliberative assembly in Lismore, NSW, set up by residents in the aftermath of the 2022 floods to practise participatory and deliberative democracy outside the formal political system.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "direct-democracy", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "https://reclaim.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://reclaim.org.au/lpa-home/", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-02-09", "note": "Latest post: Nearly four years after the NR Floods, the community is given a (small) chance t", "url": "https://reclaim.org.au/nearly-four-years-after-the-nr-floods-the-community-is-given-a-small-chance-to-be-heard/" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-02-01", "note": "Latest post: Gallery", "url": "https://reclaim.org.au/category/lpa-resources/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "reclaimourrecovery@protonmail.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://reclaim.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -28.8166, "longitude": 153.2803, "name": "Lismore, NSW, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "loomio", "title": "Loomio", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "platform", "website": "https://www.loomio.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/loomio.png", "summary": "A New Zealand worker cooperative building open-source collaborative decision-making software — used by cooperatives, NGOs, and local governments to run structured discussions, proposals, and votes.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "liquid-democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "cooperative", "consensus-mapping", "worker-cooperatives" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. No certain blog or news. But looks active at least based on vibes." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, collaborative decision-making platform content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.loomio.com", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.loomio.com/marketing-sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contact@loomio.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -41.2865, "longitude": 174.7762, "name": "Wellington, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "luminate", "title": "Luminate", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "philanthropy", "website": "https://www.luminategroup.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/luminate.png", "summary": "A global philanthropic organisation funding civic technology, digital rights, independent media, and government transparency — spun out of the Omidyar Network in 2018 with a focus on open and accountable governance.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "radical-transparency", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-07-22", "note": "website loaded. Has a news page at https://luminategroup.com/news-and-insights . Latest seems to be 22 July 2025 'How storytelling can bring us closer to tech justice'", "url": "https://luminategroup.com/news-and-insights" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active, 2026 copyright; 252 current partners, $370M distributed since 2018; confirmed philanthropic funder in civic tech/digital rights space.", "url": "https://www.luminategroup.com", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "hint": "no_markup", "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@luminategroup.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, UK" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "make-it-16", "title": "Make It 16", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "campaign", "website": "https://www.makeit16.org.nz", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/make-it-16.png", "summary": "A youth-led, non-partisan campaign to lower New Zealand's voting age to 16 — won a Supreme Court ruling that the voting age of 18 breaches the Bill of Rights for 16- and 17-year-olds.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms campaign still active; voting-age-16 mission and 2022 Supreme Court ruling (already recorded) both match. Recorded contact email (hello@makeit16.org.nz) still current; a separate media@makeit16.org.nz press address also exists.", "url": "https://www.makeit16.org.nz", "checked": "2026-09-17" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-17", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.makeit16.org.nz/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@makeit16.org.nz", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -41.2865, "longitude": 174.7762, "name": "Wellington, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mass-lbp", "title": "MASS LBP", "status": "active", "country": "CA", "type": "practice", "website": "https://www.masslbp.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mass-lbp.webp", "summary": "A Canadian civic design firm specialising in citizens' assemblies, civic lotteries, and deliberative public engagement — with over 50 reference panels completed for governments and institutions across North America.", "concepts": [ "deliberative-democracy", "citizens-assembly", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2023-08-14", "note": "website loaded. Uncertain if active. Last social media post at Aug 14, 2023 'We’re aiming to expand our team this fall by adding a new Coordinator at MASS. We are looking for a candidate with the right mix of qualities, skills and experience to help us build our practice and raise our game.'" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with current initiatives (Canadian Youth Climate Assembly, Victoria-Saanich Citizens' Assembly); '50+ panels' figure unchanged.", "url": "https://www.masslbp.com", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "social": { "date": "2025-07-21", "note": "Latest video: What is MASS LBP?", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-WbnLvrBBc" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-05-22", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "hello@masslbp.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 43.6532, "longitude": -79.3832, "name": "Toronto, Canada" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mcguinness-institute", "title": "McGuinness Institute", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "think-tank", "website": "https://www.mcguinnessinstitute.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mcguinness-institute.png", "summary": "A non-partisan New Zealand think tank applying foresight methods to long-term governance challenges — runs Project CivicsNZ (civic education, political agreements, government department strategies) and publishes on public sector governance and institutional design.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-17", "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Homepage confirms org still active with events through September 2026, including public launch of the 'On the Fence' voter-advice tool with Massey University; foresight/CivicsNZ mission matches. Contact audit found a public email and phone not previously recorded, added to contact:.", "url": "https://www.mcguinnessinstitute.org" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "enquiries@mcguinnessinstitute.org", "contact_phone": "+64 4 499 8888", "contact_form": "https://www.mcguinnessinstitute.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -41.2865, "longitude": 174.7762, "name": "Wellington, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "memo98", "title": "MEMO 98", "status": "active", "country": "SK", "type": "research", "website": "https://memo98.sk", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/memo98.svg", "summary": "A Bratislava-based media monitoring and democratic civic engagement organisation with 25+ years of experience — monitoring media integrity during elections, researching disinformation, and supporting democratic consolidation in post-authoritarian contexts.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-12-20", "note": "website loaded. Blog at https://memo98.sk/articles/blog 20. December 2025 ' Moldova Story: How a Small Republic Resisted Hybrid War '", "url": "https://memo98.sk/articles/blog" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://memo98.sk", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-05", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://memo98.sk/articles/blog", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-12-15", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "memo98@memo98.sk", "contact_phone": "+421903581591", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.1486, "longitude": 17.1077, "name": "Bratislava, Slovakia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "memorial", "title": "Memorial", "status": "active", "country": "RU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.memorial.de", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/memorial.png", "summary": "Russia's best-known human rights and historical memory organisation — documenting Soviet-era repression and ongoing abuses for 35 years. Liquidated by Russian courts in December 2021 and designated 'extremist' in April 2026; continues operating in exile through its international chapters, including Germany.", "concepts": [ "accountability-sink", "democracy", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-04", "note": "website loaded. It's german... but this looks like news https://www.memorial.de/nachrichten wehere latest news is 04.06.2026 'Asat Miftachov wird im Lager gefoltert'", "url": "https://www.memorial.de/nachrichten" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, Memorial content confirmed, summary (exile status, German chapter) still accurate.", "url": "https://www.memorial.de", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.memorial.de/nachrichten", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "Server still up (sitemap detected)" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 55.7558, "longitude": 37.6176, "name": "Moscow, Russia (liquidated; international chapters active)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mieuxvoter", "title": "MieuxVoter", "status": "active", "country": "FR", "type": "civil-society", "website": "https://mieuxvoter.fr", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mieuxvoter.png", "summary": "A French association advocating for Majority Judgment voting — an alternative electoral method where voters grade each candidate rather than pick one, aimed at reducing strategic voting and better reflecting collective preferences.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "majority-judgment", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-14", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "date": "2025-08-29", "note": "Latest press item: Bilan des Primaires 2022", "url": "https://mieuxvoter.fr/presse" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-14", "note": "Site live, confirmed active", "url": "https://mieuxvoter.fr", "checked": "2026-09-14" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2022-04-06", "note": "Scraper only finds URL-embedded dates; page shows 2025 items", "url": "https://mieuxvoter.fr/presse" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://mieuxvoter.fr/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.8566, "longitude": 2.3522, "name": "France" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-14", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mivote", "title": "MiVote", "status": "deregistered", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190718233549/https://www.mivote.org.au/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mivote.png", "summary": "An Australian civic technology platform and political party (2014–c.2019) that presented citizens with four structured policy destinations per issue — not yes/no polls — backed by a research and ethics pipeline designed to produce informed, non-ideological votes that constitutionally bound its Senate candidates.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "e-government", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-02", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": {}, "contact_email": "admin@mivote.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "", "activity_method": "" }, { "slug": "mosaiclab", "title": "MosaicLab", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "practice", "website": "https://mosaiclab.com.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mosaiclab.webp", "summary": "An Australian deliberative democracy practice that designs and facilitates public deliberation processes — citizens' juries, panels, and assemblies — for governments and public institutions.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "consensus-mapping" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-12-08", "note": "website loaded. Latest blog post is on December 8, 2025 'SHIFTS SHAPING ENGAGEMENT NEXT YEAR'" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; December 2025/November 2025 blog posts on engagement trends and ML Giving donations confirm ongoing operations.", "url": "https://mosaiclab.com.au", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-08-26", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://mosaiclab.com.au/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@mosaiclab.com.au", "contact_phone": "0422 830 650", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "movilizatorio", "title": "Movilizatorio", "status": "active", "country": "CO", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.movilizatorio.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/movilizatorio.png", "summary": "A Colombian social innovation laboratory with global reach — transforming ideas into actions and apathy into social and environmental movements. Won the Schwab Foundation Award at the World Economic Forum (2026).", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "deliberative-democracy", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing (Schwab Foundation Award coverage, Jan 2026); contact via /contacto form confirmed", "url": "https://www.movilizatorio.org", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-05-11", "note": "Latest post: La conferencia para el abandono de los combustibles fósiles: más allá del discur", "url": "https://www.movilizatorio.org/conferencia-combustibles-fosiles-hoja-ruta/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.movilizatorio.org/contacto", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 4.711, "longitude": -74.0721, "name": "Bogotá, Colombia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mqg", "title": "Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG)", "status": "active", "country": "IL", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://mqg.org.il/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mqg.png", "summary": "Israel's main anti-corruption and rule-of-law watchdog — strategic litigation, Supreme Court petitions, and civic education since 1990. Has recovered billions in public funds and led legal challenges against the 2023 judicial overhaul.", "concepts": [ "constitutional-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://mqg.org.il/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; upcoming events listed into 2026, current campaigns (Attorney General dismissal, equal conscription) confirm ongoing operations.", "url": "https://mqg.org.il/en", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Latest post: עצומה – מוציאים אותם מלשכת ראש הממשלה!", "url": "https://petition.mqg.org.il/qatargate_pm_office/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "mqg@mqg.org.il", "contact_phone": "+972 2-6633400", "contact_form": "https://mqg.org.il/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 32.0853, "longitude": 34.7818, "name": "Tel Aviv, Israel" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "mysociety", "title": "mySociety", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.mysociety.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mysociety.png", "summary": "A UK civic technology charity that builds digital tools enabling citizens to hold governments accountable — including TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, and WhatDoTheyKnow, deployed in over 40 countries.", "concepts": [ "e-government", "radical-transparency", "democracy", "accountability-sink", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "https://www.mysociety.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with 2025-26 impact report and Sept 2026 blog post; flagship tools (TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow) still live.", "url": "https://www.mysociety.org", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-09", "note": "Latest post: They work for you (and we do too)", "url": "https://www.mysociety.org/2026/09/09/they-work-for-you-and-we-do-too/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "hello@mysociety.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, UK" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-09", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "mzalendo", "title": "Mzalendo", "status": "active", "country": "KE", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://mzalendo.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/mzalendo.png", "summary": "A Kenyan non-partisan parliamentary monitoring organisation (\"Mzalendo\" is Swahili for \"patriot\") running open-data tools that track MPs' voting records, committee work and constituency spending, plus annual scorecards on Parliament's performance.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "radical-transparency", "representative-democracy", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-25", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-25", "note": "Site checked and page created: about, our-work, scorecard, elections and contact pages all live; Elections Watch 2027 tooling published ahead of Kenya's next general election", "url": "https://mzalendo.com/about/", "checked": "2026-08-25" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-07", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://mzalendo.com/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@mzalendo.com", "contact_phone": "+254 726 464 063", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -1.2921, "longitude": 36.8219, "name": "Nairobi, Kenya" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-25", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "namfrel", "title": "NAMFREL (National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections)", "status": "active", "country": "PH", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://namfrel.com.ph", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/namfrel.jpg", "summary": "The Philippines' independent citizen election watchdog — founded in 1983, widely regarded as the world's first citizen-led election monitoring organisation, with 250,000+ volunteers conducting parallel vote counts and election observation.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "namfrel.com.ph still unreachable (connection timeout), consistent with prior known Wayback-URL exception; status: active retained per SOUL.md convention, no change needed.", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://namfrel.com.ph", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 14.5995, "longitude": 120.9842, "name": "Manila, Philippines" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "newdemocracy", "title": "newDemocracy Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.newdemocracy.com.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/newdemocracy.jpg", "summary": "An independent, non-partisan Australian research and development organisation that designs and runs real-world deliberative democracy trials using randomly selected citizens.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition", "isegoria", "cognitive-division-of-labour" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live (406 to bare scripted UA, 200 with full browser headers — bot-sensitive, not down), deliberative-democracy trial content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.newdemocracy.com.au" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-07-03", "note": "Latest post: A New Political Party: Why?", "url": "https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2026/07/03/a-new-political-party-why/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-political-party-why" } }, "contact_email": "iain.walker@newdemocracy.com.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "newvote", "title": "NewVote", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://newvote.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/newvote.webp", "summary": "An Australian civic technology institute combining direct, deliberative, and representative democracy — empowering people on specific issues and surfacing the informed 'will of the people' to elected governments.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "liquid-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://newvote.org/blog/rss.xml", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2020-05-16", "note": "website loaded. But social media is last noted in twitter May 16, 2020 https://x.com/newvote/status/1261440493004615681 . So uncertain on newvote status", "url": "https://x.com/newvote/status/1261440493004615681" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; content dated to 2019 but no evidence of shutdown, consistent with prior checks.", "url": "https://newvote.org", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2019-11-11", "note": "Latest post: How's SpeakUp @ the University of Queensland going?", "url": "https://newvote.org/blog/2019/11/10/hows-speakup-the-university-of-queensland-going" } }, "contact_email": "hello@newvote.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://newvote.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -27.4698, "longitude": 153.0251, "name": "Brisbane, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "nota-canada", "title": "None of the Above Party (Canada)", "status": "active", "country": "CA", "type": "party", "website": "https://nota.ca", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/nota-canada.png", "summary": "A Canadian provincial party (Ontario) that elects independent MPPs not bound by party discipline — advocating the 3Rs of direct democracy: Referendum, Recall, and Responsible Government laws.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "representative-democracy", "liquid-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://nota.ca/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2025-01-27", "note": "website loaded. https://nota.ca/news/ has January 27, 2025 'None of the Above Party Calls for Referendum on Trump Tariffs, Strategic Voting to Defeat Ford Government in Election'", "url": "https://nota.ca/news/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; most recent news item Jan 2025 re Ontario provincial election; confirmed active.", "url": "https://nota.ca", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-01-28", "note": "Latest post: None of the Above Party Calls for Referendum on Trump Tariffs, Strategic Voting ", "url": "https://nota.ca/none-of-the-above-party-calls-for-referendum-on-trump-tariffs/" } }, "contact_email": "info@nota.ca", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://nota.ca/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 43.6532, "longitude": -79.3832, "name": "Ontario, Canada" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "nzccl", "title": "NZ Council for Civil Liberties", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://nzccl.org.nz", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/nzccl.ico", "summary": "An independent watchdog defending democratic rights and civil liberties in Aotearoa — active participant in New Zealand's Open Government Partnership civil society engagement, with a dense programme of parliamentary submissions on bills affecting democratic participation, freedom of expression, and protest rights.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "liberal-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing submissions through Sept 2026", "url": "https://nzccl.org.nz", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-02", "note": "Latest post: Submission: Concealment of Location of Victim Remains Bill", "url": "https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-concealment-of-location-of-victim-remains-bill/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://nzccl.org.nz/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -41.2865, "longitude": 174.7762, "name": "Wellington, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "online-direct-democracy-australia", "title": "Online Direct Democracy Australia", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.onlinedirectdemocracy.org", "logo": "", "summary": "An Australian direct democracy electoral organisation that stood candidates on a platform of replacing the representative system with online direct citizen voting — the domain is now squatted.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "e-government", "liquid-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "open-australia-foundation", "title": "OpenAustralia Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/open-australia-foundation.png", "summary": "An Australian civic technology charity building tools that help citizens understand and engage with their parliament and government.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "e-government", "accountability-sink", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Site live, OpenAustralia Foundation civic-tech content confirmed, summary still accurate.", "url": "https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-13", "note": "Latest post: This is what our library is for", "url": "https://oaf.org.au/2026/08/13/this-is-what-our-library-is-for/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contact@oaf.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "open-government-partnership-australia", "title": "Open Government Partnership — Australia", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "governance", "website": "https://www.ag.gov.au/integrity/australias-open-government-partnership", "logo": "", "summary": "Australia's participation in the international Open Government Partnership. Dormant after its second action plan (2018–20), participation was renewed with a third National Action Plan (2023–25) on transparency, anti-corruption, and technology in governance — now hosted by the Attorney-General's Department, with a fourth Open Government Forum appointed in 2026.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "e-government", "constitutional-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Status corrected inactive→active: OGP participation renewed — NAP3 published Dec 2023, fourth Open Government Forum appointed May 2026 under Attorney-General's Department", "url": "https://www.ag.gov.au/integrity/australias-open-government-partnership", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2809, "longitude": 149.13, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "open-knowledge-brasil", "title": "Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR)", "status": "active", "country": "BR", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://ok.org.br", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/open-knowledge-brasil.png", "summary": "A Brazilian organisation promoting open data, public transparency, civic technology, and open knowledge — flagship projects include Querido Diário (crowdsourcing municipal gazettes), the Open Data Index, Parlametria (Congress tracking), and Perfil Político (candidate profiles).", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "radical-transparency", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026", "url": "https://ok.org.br", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Latest post: OKBR assina relatório que analisa o papel das plataformas na proteção da integri", "url": "https://ok.org.br/noticia/okbr-assina-relatorio-que-analisa-o-papel-das-plataformas-na-protecao-da-integridade-eleitoral/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://ok.org.br/contato", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -23.5505, "longitude": -46.6333, "name": "São Paulo, Brazil" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "open-society-foundations", "title": "Open Society Foundations", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "philanthropy", "website": "https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/open-society-foundations.png", "summary": "The world's largest private funder of independent groups working for rights, equity, and justice — founded by George Soros in 1979, with grants, fellowships, and national foundations active across 100+ countries.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "radical-transparency", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-05-20", "note": "website loaded. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom has May 20, 2026 'Open Society Foundations Launch $300 Million Initiative to Advance Economic Security and Defend Civil Liberties in the United States'", "url": "https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with 2024 expenditure data ($1.2B, 50,000+ grants); confirmed as large private funder for rights/democracy work.", "url": "https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-26", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "media@opensocietyfoundations.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.7128, "longitude": -74.006, "name": "New York, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "opora", "title": "Civil Network OPORA", "status": "active", "country": "UA", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://oporaua.org/en", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/opora.png", "summary": "Ukraine's leading non-partisan election observation organisation — monitoring elections since 2006, conducting parliamentary oversight, and co-founding the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE).", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "accountability-sink", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-13", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-13", "note": "Website confirmed active — Sept 2026 content incl. international voter-register-accuracy workshop; contact info matches frontmatter.", "url": "https://oporaua.org/en", "checked": "2026-09-13" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-03", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://oporaua.org/en/announce", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@opora.org.ua", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 50.4501, "longitude": 30.5234, "name": "Kyiv, Ukraine" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-13", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "participatory-budgeting-project", "title": "Participatory Budgeting Project", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "practice", "website": "https://www.participatorybudgeting.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/participatory-budgeting-project.png", "summary": "A North American nonprofit that has pioneered the spread of participatory budgeting in the US and Canada — helping governments, schools, and institutions engage over 740,000 people in directly deciding how to spend public funds.", "concepts": [ "participatory-budgeting", "direct-democracy", "deliberative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site active with Dec 2025/Mar 2026 blog posts; confirmed North American PB nonprofit (stats widget on homepage showing zeros appears to be a display bug, not a content issue).", "url": "https://www.participatorybudgeting.org", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-03-05", "note": "Latest post: PB Grows in New Jersey", "url": "https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/pb-seeds-eval/" } }, "contact_email": "info@participatorybudgeting.org", "contact_phone": "1347-652-1478", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.6782, "longitude": -73.9442, "name": "Brooklyn, New York, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "participedia", "title": "Participedia", "status": "active", "country": "CA", "type": "research", "website": "https://participedia.net", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/participedia.jpg", "summary": "A global open-access database and research platform cataloguing thousands of participatory democracy cases, methods, and organisations from around the world.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "participatory-budgeting", "direct-democracy", "democracy", "meta-organisation" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "https://medium.com/feed/@participediaproject", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-01-06", "note": "website loaded. News page points to https://participediaproject.medium.com/ where latest is Jan 6, 2026 'Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports'", "url": "https://participediaproject.medium.com/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Deep-dive history pass: added sourced milestone events (founding, major judgments/launches) with verbatim quotes verified against live pages", "url": "https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us/", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-01-05", "note": "Latest post: Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports", "url": "https://participediaproject.medium.com/participedia-schools-2025-summary-reports-5f84ce0bd47f?source=rss-4e7f7d842e0a------2" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2025-06-02", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://participediaproject.medium.com/" } }, "contact_email": "info@participedia.net", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 49.2827, "longitude": -123.1207, "name": "Vancouver, Canada" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "people-decide", "title": "People Decide", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.peopledecide.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/people-decide.png", "summary": "An Australian participatory democracy platform and political party of independents allowing citizens to vote on, create, and contribute to national laws and local government decisions online.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "e-government", "liquid-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "people-powered", "title": "People Powered", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "network", "website": "https://www.peoplepowered.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/people-powered.webp", "summary": "A global hub for participatory democracy — connecting government practitioners, researchers, and advocates through mentorship, training, accelerator programmes, and a resource centre. Serves as a membership organisation for the participatory democracy field worldwide.", "concepts": [ "participatory-budgeting", "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "democracy-tools" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-19", "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live; added Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy 2026 (Gaborone) event, confirmed OIDP/Athens/GDC/World Forum events still current", "url": "https://www.peoplepowered.org" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-08-25", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.peoplepowered.org/sitemap.xml" } }, "contact_email": "info@peoplepowered.org", "contact_phone": "(201) 431-5646", "contact_form": "https://www.peoplepowered.org/connect", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 40.6782, "longitude": -73.9442, "name": "Brooklyn, New York, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "peoplecount", "title": "PeopleCount", "status": "inactive", "country": "US", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://peoplecount.org/", "logo": "", "summary": "A US civic technology project focused on restoring political accountability through structured many-to-many communication between citizens and representatives.", "concepts": [ "direct-democracy", "accountability-sink", "consensus-mapping" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Site liveness recheck: website live but project dormant (no recent activity); website field corrected from Wayback URL to live URL per defunct-orgs-only convention", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": null, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "perludem", "title": "Perludem", "status": "active", "country": "ID", "type": "research", "website": "https://perludem.or.id", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/perludem.jpg", "summary": "An Indonesian independent nonprofit founded in 2005 — a leading civil society voice on electoral integrity, democratic reform, and electoral system design in the world's third-largest democracy.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "representative-democracy", "mixed-member-proportional-representation" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026; contact info confirmed", "url": "https://perludem.or.id", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-01", "note": "Latest post: Safeguarding The Rule Of The Democratic Game", "url": "https://perludem.or.id/safeguarding-the-rule-of-the-democratic-game/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "perludem@perludem.or.id", "contact_phone": "+62 21 22833919", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -6.2088, "longitude": 106.8456, "name": "Jakarta, Indonesia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "pirate-party-australia", "title": "Pirate Party Australia", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "party", "website": "https://pirateparty.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/pirate-party.svg", "summary": "An Australian political party focused on digital rights, civil liberties, and democratic reform, including initiating the Electoral Royal Commission campaign to investigate Australian voting reform. Deregistered as an independent AEC-registered party in 2021 and now runs as a distinct internal grouping within the Fusion Party — retaining its own membership and infrastructure, with its members also counted as Fusion Party members for electoral registration.", "concepts": [ "liquid-democracy", "issue-based-direct-democracy", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "Known personally to be active" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site blocks scripted fetch (403) but web search confirms PPAU continues as a distinct internal grouping within Fusion Party's federated structure, own membership/infrastructure intact as of 2026.", "url": "https://pirateparty.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2024-05-14", "note": "Latest post: Pirate Party Australia raises alarm over miscarriage of justice in David McBride", "url": "https://pirateparty.org.au/2024/05/15/pirate-party-australia-raises-alarm-over-miscarriage-of-justice-in-david-mcbride-case-lengthy-prison-term/" } }, "contact_email": "media@pirateparty.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "pmg", "title": "Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)", "status": "active", "country": "ZA", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://pmg.org.za", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/pmg-icon.png", "summary": "A Cape Town information service that has minuted every open committee meeting of South Africa's Parliament since 1998 — the only public record of the proceedings where most legislation is actually shaped.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "representative-democracy", "e-government", "democracy-tools", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-25", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-25", "note": "Site checked and page created: blog publishing weekly \"The Week Ahead\" and gazette digests, most recent dated 23 August 2026", "url": "https://pmg.org.za/blog/", "checked": "2026-08-25" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-09-08", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://pmg.org.za/blog/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@pmg.org.za", "contact_phone": "+27 21 465 8885", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.9250575, "longitude": 18.4214833, "name": "Church Square, Cape Town, South Africa" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-08", "activity_method": "scrape" }, { "slug": "polis", "title": "Pol.is", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "platform", "website": "https://pol.is", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/polis.png", "summary": "An open-source consensus mapping platform used in large-scale public deliberations — participants rate statements rather than debating, and machine learning surfaces the points of genuine agreement across thousands of respondents.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "consensus-mapping", "deliberative-democracy", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. No obvious news pages. But copy right is set to © 2026 on the page." }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site reachable (200 OK); JS-rendered homepage limits automated content confirmation, but no evidence of discontinuation.", "url": "https://pol.is", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" } }, "contact_email": "hello@compdemocracy.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 47.6062, "longitude": -122.3321, "name": "Seattle, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "prediki", "title": "Prediki", "status": "active", "country": "AT", "type": "platform", "website": "https://www.prediki.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/prediki.svg", "summary": "An Austrian prediction market platform that aggregates collective intelligence on political and policy questions — users make structured predictions with reasons, and the system surfaces the informed consensus.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "prediction-markets", "cognitive-division-of-labour", "isegoria" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2022-09-30", "note": "website active. News link https://www.prediki.com/meta/en/Management-by-Predictions-(Prediki-Blog-in-English)/ . Last is at Vienna, 30 September 2022 'Renewed Controversy About Election Polls'", "url": "https://www.prediki.com/meta/en/Management-by-Predictions-(Prediki-Blog-in-English)/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; active prediction markets including a Fall 2026 university course category (WFU PM FALL 2026), confirming ongoing operation despite dated footer copyright.", "url": "https://www.prediki.com", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "hint": "unreachable", "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2022-09-30", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.prediki.com/meta/en/Management-by-Predictions-(Prediki-Blog-in-English)/" } }, "contact_email": "support@prediki.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 48.2082, "longitude": 16.3738, "name": "Vienna, Austria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "prs-legislative-research", "title": "PRS Legislative Research", "status": "active", "country": "IN", "type": "research", "website": "https://prsindia.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/prs-legislative-research.png", "summary": "A New Delhi-based independent legislative research institute supporting parliamentarians and informing citizens — tracking bills, budgets, and MP activity for India's Parliament and state legislatures since 2005.", "concepts": [ "representative-democracy", "radical-transparency", "accountability-sink", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2024-05-20", "note": "website loaded. Has blog in main page under a tab. Last one is at May 20, 2024 'A note of gratitude to Mr. N. Vaghul" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; homepage content current to 15 Sep 2026 (Rajya Sabha Monsoon Session 2026 coverage).", "url": "https://prsindia.org", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2021-07-17", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "prsindia@prsindia.org", "contact_phone": "(011) 2323 4801", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 28.6315, "longitude": 77.2167, "name": "New Delhi, India" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "prsa", "title": "Proportional Representation Society of Australia", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.prsa.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/prsa.jpg", "summary": "Australia's oldest electoral reform organisation, advocating for proportional representation via the Single Transferable Vote — the system already used in Tasmania, the ACT, and the Australian Senate.", "concepts": [ "preferential-voting", "mixed-member-proportional-representation", "representative-democracy", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://www.prsa.org.au/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-05-01", "note": "website loaded. News page at https://www.prsa.org.au/latest01.htm 2026-05a 'LETTER ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION OUTCOME TO ALL SA MPs:'", "url": "https://www.prsa.org.au/latest01.htm" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; 'LATEST NEWS, as at September 2026' banner confirms current operation.", "url": "https://www.prsa.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2020-07-09", "note": "Latest post: Orders in Council gazetted for single-councillor wards have taken effect", "url": "https://prsa.org.au/news/2020/#2020-07b" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-06-01", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.prsa.org.au/qn/indexqn.htm", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@prsa.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2809, "longitude": 149.13, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "pspd", "title": "People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)", "status": "active", "country": "KR", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.peoplepower21.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/pspd.svg", "summary": "A major South Korean civil society organisation founded in 1994 — a pillar of Korean democratic accountability with ~13,000 members, monitoring the judiciary, legislature, and executive, and driving public-interest law, economic justice, and peace advocacy.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "deliberative-democracy", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026", "url": "https://www.peoplepower21.org", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Latest post: 홍지선 국토부장관 후보자에게 정책 질의서를 발송했습니다", "url": "https://peoplepower21.org/stablelife/2029235", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.peoplepower21.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 37.5665, "longitude": 126.978, "name": "Seoul, South Korea" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "radicalxchange", "title": "RadicalxChange Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://www.radicalxchange.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/radicalxchange.png", "summary": "A US-founded international nonprofit and movement advancing 'Plurality' — mechanisms like quadratic voting and quadratic funding that aim to make democratic and economic participation more expressive than one-person-one-vote. National-scale adoption in Taiwan and Japan's Team Mirai; a Melbourne chapter is forming as of August 2026.", "concepts": [ "collective-intelligence", "participatory-budgeting" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-07", "date": "2026-08-07", "note": "Confirmed active via own website and an upcoming Melbourne chapter launch event (27 Aug 2026).", "url": "https://www.radicalxchange.org/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026 (field projects, monthly salons)", "url": "https://www.radicalxchange.org", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@radicalxchange.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 37.8044, "longitude": -122.2712, "name": "San Francisco Bay Area, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "referendum-council", "title": "Referendum Council (Australia)", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "governance", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.referendumcouncil.org.au", "logo": "", "summary": "A formal Australian advisory body (2016–17) tasked with consulting on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — its process produced the Uluru Statement from the Heart.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "constitutional-democracy", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -35.2809, "longitude": 149.13, "name": "Canberra, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "representus", "title": "RepresentUs", "status": "active", "country": "US", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://represent.us", "logo": "", "summary": "America's largest grassroots anti-corruption organisation, co-founded in 2012, winning state and local reforms on ranked-choice voting, independent redistricting, campaign finance, and lobbying rules across partisan lines.", "concepts": [ "preferential-voting", "radical-transparency" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Page created and verified against live sources (org website, Wikipedia) during landscape gap research", "checked": "2026-08-21" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-01", "note": "Latest post: Why Do Prediction Markets Fuel Corruption, Crime, and Insider Trading?", "url": "https://represent.us/news/prediction-markets-explained/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 42.3251, "longitude": -72.6666, "name": "Florence, Massachusetts, USA" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-01", "activity_method": "rss" }, { "slug": "rwanda-governance-board", "title": "Rwanda Governance Board (RGB)", "status": "active", "country": "RW", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.rgb.rw", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/rwanda-governance-board.png", "summary": "Rwanda's government body for governance research and oversight — publishing annual governance scorecards, studying decentralisation and citizen participation, and administering the Ubudehe community classification system. Included for its governance design research, not as an independent watchdog of the Kagame government.", "concepts": [ "vanguardism", "democracy", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-05-29", "note": "website loaded. News page at https://www.rgb.rw/updates/news . Latest news Friday, 29 May, 2026 'Former Ethipia Prime Minister H.E. Hailemariam visits RGB'", "url": "https://www.rgb.rw/updates/news" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; news items dated through 26 Aug 2026 (Africa Mindset Reset panel, SIGNIS World Congress, NGO legal framework statement).", "url": "https://www.rgb.rw", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-26", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://www.rgb.rw/updates/news", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@rgb.rw", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.rgb.rw/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -1.9441, "longitude": 30.0619, "name": "Kigali, Rwanda" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "securevote", "title": "SecureVote", "status": "inactive", "country": "AU", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://secure.vote", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/securevote.png", "summary": "An Australian blockchain voting platform providing secure, scalable, and anonymous digital voting for governments, organisations, and token-based ecosystems. Now defunct — domain squatted.", "concepts": [ "end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-21", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Defunct-status recheck: Wayback CDX confirms archived snapshots of the original site; no evidence of revival found", "checked": "2026-08-21" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "sitra", "title": "Sitra", "status": "active", "country": "FI", "type": "foundation", "website": "https://www.sitra.fi/en/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/sitra.svg", "summary": "The Finnish Innovation Fund — a public foundation under parliamentary supervision with a dedicated Democracy work track that renews democracy and strengthens citizen engagement through democratic innovations and technologies.", "concepts": [ "deliberative-democracy", "democracy-tools", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026", "url": "https://www.sitra.fi/en/", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Latest post: Toimintaympäristökatsaus touko-elokuu 2026", "url": "https://www.sitra.fi/artikkelit/toimintaymparistokatsaus-touko-elokuu-2026/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "sitra@sitra.fi", "contact_phone": "+358 294 618 991", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 60.1699, "longitude": 24.9384, "name": "Helsinki, Finland" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "socentral", "title": "SoCentral", "status": "active", "country": "NO", "type": "foundation", "website": "https://www.socentral.no", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/socentral.png", "summary": "A Norwegian social innovation platform that initiates, coordinates, and drives collaborative projects for sustainable societal development — including Norway's first civil-society-initiated national citizens' assemblies on the use of national wealth and sustainable consumption.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "cooperative" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026", "url": "https://www.socentral.no", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.socentral.no/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.socentral.no/kontakt", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 59.9139, "longitude": 10.7522, "name": "Oslo, Norway" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "sortition-foundation-australia", "title": "Sortition Foundation (Australia)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/become_a_member_australia", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/sortition-foundation-australia.png", "summary": "The Australian chapter of the UK-based Sortition Foundation, running monthly community meetings and providing sortition recruitment services for Australian democratic processes — including Victorian council deliberations, federal electorate pilots, and national citizen assemblies.", "concepts": [ "sortition", "deliberative-democracy", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates.rss", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-02-26", "note": "website loaded. News page at https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates 26 February, 2026 'Frontiers of Democratic Lotteries Workshop'", "url": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site blocks scripted fetch (403); web search confirms Sortition Foundation Australia chapter (Melbourne) continues running assembly lottery selection services, consistent with existing summary.", "url": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/become_a_member_australia", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-06-18", "note": "Latest post: We're looking for a new Independent Director", "url": "http://www.sortitionfoundation.org/new_independent_director_2026", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "hint": "bot_blocked", "note": "News page unreachable" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-05-26", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "press@sortitionfoundation.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.7749, "longitude": 144.9934, "name": "Preston, Victoria" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "sortition-foundation", "title": "Sortition Foundation", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "advocacy", "website": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/sortition-foundation.png", "summary": "A UK-based organisation advocating for sortition (random selection) in democratic institutions — running the sortition process for European Citizens' Panels, campaigning to replace the UK House of Lords with a citizens' chamber, and building an open-source lottery platform.", "concepts": [ "sortition", "deliberative-democracy", "citizens-assembly", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates.rss", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-08-08", "date": "2026-06-18", "note": "Latest update: We're looking for a new Independent Director (18 June, 2026)", "url": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/updates" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site confirmed active via search corroboration: May 2026 Greater Manchester citizens' assembly poll, June 2026 Frontiers of Democratic Lotteries workshop, GitHub commits through Aug 2026; direct scripted fetch returns 403 (Cloudflare bot check).", "url": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-06-18", "note": "Latest post: We're looking for a new Independent Director", "url": "http://www.sortitionfoundation.org/new_independent_director_2026", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "hint": "bot_blocked", "note": "News page unreachable" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-05-26", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)" } }, "contact_email": "press@sortitionfoundation.org", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 52.234, "longitude": 0.0866, "name": "Cambridge, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "susan-mckinnon-foundation", "title": "McKinnon (formerly Susan McKinnon Foundation)", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "philanthropy", "website": "https://mckinnon.co", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/susan-mckinnon-foundation-icon.png", "summary": "A non-partisan Australian foundation working across all sides of politics to find common ground and practical pathways on major national challenges, with a focus on democratic and public sector reform. Rebranded from Susan McKinnon Foundation to McKinnon in 2025.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "constitutional-democracy", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-08-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-03", "note": "website loaded. https://mckinnon.co/insights is it's news page. Latest news is 03 JUN 2026 'McKinnon Political Leader of the Year 2025 - Federal – Shortlisted nominees'", "url": "https://mckinnon.co/insights" }, "dod": { "checked": "2026-08-15", "date": "2026-08-15", "note": "Added sourced History section (founding 2015, McKinnon Prize 2017, McKinnon Institute 2019, MessageMedia/Sinch sale 2021, Monash renewal 2024, rebrand 2025) after verifying each claim against directly-fetched primary sources" }, "scrape": { "date": "2026-08-21", "note": "Latest news page scraped", "url": "https://mckinnon.co/insights", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-10", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://mckinnon.co/sitemap.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@mckinnon.co", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8136, "longitude": 144.9631, "name": "Melbourne, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-08-21", "activity_method": "scrape" }, { "slug": "team-mirai", "title": "Team Mirai", "status": "active", "country": "JP", "type": "party", "website": "https://team-mir.ai", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/team-mirai.png", "summary": "A Japanese political party founded in 2025 by AI engineer Takahiro Anno, advocating e-democracy and digital democracy — using technology platforms to enable direct citizen input into legislative processes. Won 1 Upper House seat in 2025 and 11 Lower House seats in the February 2026 general election.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "liquid-democracy", "direct-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, confirmed active (11 lower house seats, nationwide caravan 2026 underway)", "url": "https://team-mir.ai", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://team-mir.ai/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 35.6762, "longitude": 139.6503, "name": "Tokyo, Japan" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "tev-dem", "title": "TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society)", "status": "active", "country": "SY", "type": "governance", "website": "", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/tev-dem.png", "summary": "The civilian governance coordination body of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) — an umbrella of communal councils, civil society organisations, and professional bodies implementing democratic confederalism in an active conflict zone.", "concepts": [ "democratic-confederalism" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-02-21", "note": "Website loaded at https://tev-dem.com/ . News is in front page. Latest is Feb 21, 2026 ' roja Zimanê Dayîk A Cîhanî li hemû gelan pîroz be û Hêviya me ye ku bibe roja vekirina dergihê azadiya gelên Sûriyayê û aramiya wan.'", "url": "https://tev-dem.com/" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Web search confirms TEV-DEM website remains active and the organisation continues coordinating Rojava's communal-council structure amid 2026 conflict pressure; co-chairs named as Zalal Jagar and Kharib Heso.", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Democratic_Society", "checked": "2026-09-15" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 37.0527, "longitude": 41.227, "name": "Qamishli, North and East Syria (AANES)" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "they-vote-for-you", "title": "They Vote For You", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "civic tech", "website": "https://theyvoteforyou.org.au", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/they-vote-for-you.ico", "summary": "Converts Australian parliamentary voting records into plain-English histories for every MP and Senator, run by the OpenAustralia Foundation.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "radical-transparency", "accountability-sink", "e-government", "parliamentary-monitoring" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-11", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-22", "date": "2026-06-22", "note": "Confirmed active via OpenAustralia Foundation project page" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "theyvoteforyou.org.au 403s to scripted requests (Cloudflare-style bot protection, consistent with prior landscape pattern for OAF-family sites); parent org OpenAustralia Foundation confirmed live same run, no change needed.", "url": "https://theyvoteforyou.org.au", "checked": "2026-09-11" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "contact@theyvoteforyou.org.au", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -33.8688, "longitude": 151.2093, "name": "Sydney, Australia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-11", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "tinz", "title": "Transparency International New Zealand (TINZ)", "status": "active", "country": "NZ", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://www.transparency.org.nz", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/tinz.svg", "summary": "The New Zealand chapter of the global anti-corruption coalition — running the National Integrity System assessment, campaigning for lobbying transparency, political donation reform, limits on parliamentary urgency, and beneficial ownership registers.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-19", "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live; added 28 Sept 2026 Pacific environmental-information report launch event", "url": "https://www.transparency.org.nz" }, "sitemap": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2026-09-03", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://www.transparency.org.nz/sitemap.xml" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.transparency.org.nz/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -41.2865, "longitude": 174.7762, "name": "Wellington, New Zealand" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "transparencia-por-colombia", "title": "Transparencia por Colombia", "status": "active", "country": "CO", "type": "ngo", "website": "https://transparenciacolombia.org.co", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/transparencia-por-colombia.png", "summary": "The Colombian chapter of Transparency International — running the Monitor Ciudadano de la Corrupción (open data and analytics platform), tracking electoral campaign financing in real time, and working across all 32 departments on corruption prevention and democratic integrity.", "concepts": [ "radical-transparency", "democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live; confirmed and added published email/phone to contact:", "url": "https://transparenciacolombia.org.co", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-08-19", "note": "Latest post: Recomendaciones en materia de transparencia y lucha contra la corrupción para at", "url": "https://transparenciacolombia.org.co/recomendaciones-atender-emergencia-terremoto-agosto-2026/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "transparenciatpc@transparenciacolombia.org.co", "contact_phone": "+57 (601) 4778282", "contact_form": "https://transparenciacolombia.org.co/contacto", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 4.711, "longitude": -74.0721, "name": "Bogotá, Colombia" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "ushahidi", "title": "Ushahidi", "status": "active", "country": "KE", "type": "platform", "website": "https://www.ushahidi.com", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/ushahidi.png", "summary": "A Kenyan-founded nonprofit (2008) that builds open-source crowdsourcing and crisis-mapping tools — originally created to map post-election violence in Kenya, now used for election monitoring, human rights documentation, and civic reporting worldwide.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "radical-transparency", "collective-intelligence" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; five-year strategy content and recent blog posts confirm ongoing operations, though homepage copyright/case-study references are dated 2022-2023.", "url": "https://www.ushahidi.com", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-09-11", "date": "2024-11-12", "note": "Latest post: The End; and the Means to that End (Angela Oduor Lungati)", "url": "https://www.ushahidi.com/about/blog" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.ushahidi.com/contact", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -1.2921, "longitude": 36.8219, "name": "Nairobi, Kenya" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "v-dem-institute", "title": "V-Dem Institute", "status": "active", "country": "SE", "type": "research", "website": "https://www.v-dem.net", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/v-dem-institute.png", "summary": "An independent research institute at the University of Gothenburg that conceptualises and measures democracy worldwide — home to the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) dataset and its annual Democracy Report tracking global democratic and autocratic trends.", "concepts": [ "democracy", "liberal-democracy", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-16", "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live; Democracy Report 2026 and press coverage current as of September 2026", "url": "https://www.v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-18" } }, "contact_email": "contact@v-dem.net", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 57.7089, "longitude": 11.9746, "name": "Gothenburg, Sweden" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "victorian-electoral-commission", "title": "Victorian Electoral Commission", "status": "active", "country": "AU", "type": "government", "website": "https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/victorian-electoral-commission-icon.png", "summary": "Victoria's independent electoral authority, established under the Electoral Act 2002, which runs state and local council elections and maintains a public electoral misinformation register ahead of the November 2026 state election.", "concepts": [ "democratic-infrastructure", "preferential-voting", "representative-democracy" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-17", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "checked": "2026-09-17", "date": "2026-09-17", "note": "Sourced org page from vec.vic.gov.au: About us, Contact us, and the electoral misinformation section" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-18" } }, "contact_email": "info@vec.vic.gov.au", "contact_phone": "131 832", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": -37.8177934, "longitude": 144.9568668, "name": "Level 11, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-17", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "vietnam-fatherland-front", "title": "Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)", "status": "active", "country": "VN", "type": "governance", "website": "https://mattran.org.vn", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/vietnam-fatherland-front.png", "summary": "Vietnam's constitutionally mandated consultative umbrella body — 50+ member organisations representing professional, religious, ethnic, and social groups — structurally analogous to China's CPPCC, operating under the Vietnamese Communist Party's single-party framework.", "concepts": [ "vanguardism" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-15", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "website loaded. News page in front page. Latest news 07/06/2026 'Khai mạc phiên thứ nhất Đại hội đại biểu toàn quốc Hội Nông dân Việt Nam lần thứ IX: Gần 600 đại biểu chính thức về dự'" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-15", "note": "Site live; content current to 15 Sep 2026, including coverage of the 11th National Congress (May 2026) and ongoing disaster-relief coordination.", "url": "https://mattran.org.vn", "checked": "2026-09-15" }, "sitemap": { "date": "2026-09-11", "note": "Page last modified (from sitemap)", "url": "https://mattran.org.vn/sitemaps.xml", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "tapchimattrantoquoc@gmail.com", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 21.0285, "longitude": 105.8542, "name": "Hanoi, Vietnam" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-15", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "vote-monitor", "title": "Vote Monitor", "status": "inactive", "country": "RO", "type": "platform", "website": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://votemonitor.org/", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/vote-monitor.png", "summary": "An open-source election observation platform built by Code for Romania — allows accredited observers to submit real-time field reports from polling stations, replacing paper forms with structured mobile data collection.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "e-government", "radical-transparency", "end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system" ], "last_checked": "2026-06-09", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-09", "note": "Site defunct; last live Wayback capture ~2022. Code for Romania project — check code4.ro for successor activity" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 44.4268, "longitude": 26.1025, "name": "Bucharest, Romania" }, "activity_date": "", "activity_method": "" }, { "slug": "vtaiwan", "title": "vTaiwan", "status": "active", "country": "TW", "type": "platform", "website": "https://vtaiwan.tw", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/vtaiwan.png", "summary": "A Taiwanese open-consultation platform (launched 2015) that uses Pol.is-based deliberation to surface consensus on contested policy. Influential in its early phase but never legally mandated; now continues as a volunteer-driven civic lab as the state's participation efforts moved to other platforms.", "concepts": [ "consensus-mapping", "deliberative-democracy", "radical-transparency", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-06", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "manual": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "website loaded. https://www.vtaiwan.tw/newsletters is it's news page. Latest is June 5, 2026 'vTaiwan Newsletter Issue Zero'. Its a mirror of their substack located at https://vtaiwantw.substack.com/p/vtaiwan-newsletter-issue-zero", "url": "https://vtaiwantw.substack.com/p/vtaiwan-newsletter-issue-zero" }, "dod": { "date": "2026-09-06", "note": "Site reachable (200 OK); known SPA shell limits automated content confirmation, but no evidence of discontinuation.", "url": "https://vtaiwan.tw", "checked": "2026-09-06" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "note": "No feed found" }, "scrape": { "checked": "2026-06-08", "hint": "spa", "note": "News page found, no machine-readable date" }, "sitemap": { "note": "Sitemap found, no lastmod", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "info@vtaiwan.tw", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 25.033, "longitude": 121.5654, "name": "Taipei, Taiwan" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-06", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "we-do-democracy", "title": "We Do Democracy", "status": "active", "country": "DK", "type": "consultancy", "website": "https://www.wedodemocracy.dk", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/we-do-democracy.png", "summary": "The Nordic region's leading deliberative democracy consultancy — designing, facilitating, and evaluating citizens' assemblies, participatory strategies, and democratic innovation for municipalities, governments, and organisations across Denmark, Norway, and the Nordics.", "concepts": [ "citizens-assembly", "deliberative-democracy", "sortition" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, actively publishing through Sept 2026", "url": "https://www.wedodemocracy.dk", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "date": "2026-09-02", "note": "Latest post: Borgerpanel afleverer otte gennembearbejdede anbefalinger til Folketinget", "url": "https://www.wedodemocracy.dk/nationalt-borgerpanel-kommer-med-anbefalinger-til-fremtidens-dyrevelfaerd/", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "https://www.wedodemocracy.dk/kontakt", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 55.6761, "longitude": 12.5683, "name": "Copenhagen, Denmark" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "wecollect", "title": "WeCollect", "status": "active", "country": "CH", "type": "platform", "website": "https://www.wecollect.ch", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/wecollect.png", "summary": "A Swiss civic-tech platform operated by the Stiftung für direkte Demokratie (Foundation for Direct Democracy) — helps citizens launch initiatives and referendums and collect digital signatures. 915,557 signatures gathered across 123 campaigns since 2015.", "concepts": [ "democracy-tools", "direct-democracy", "e-government" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "rss_feed": "", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-19", "note": "Site live, 920k+ signatures across 123 campaigns, 6 active initiatives", "url": "https://www.wecollect.ch", "checked": "2026-09-19" }, "rss": { "note": "No feed found", "checked": "2026-09-11" } }, "contact_email": "team@wecollect.ch", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 47.5596, "longitude": 7.5886, "name": "Basel, Switzerland" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-19", "activity_method": "dod" }, { "slug": "your-party", "title": "Your Party", "status": "active", "country": "GB", "type": "party", "website": "https://www.yourparty.uk", "logo": "/assets/org-logos/your-party.svg", "summary": "A UK political party founded in 2025, notable for using sortition (via the Sortition Foundation) to select delegates to its founding conference — producing a statistically representative membership sample balanced by gender, region, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics.", "concepts": [ "sortition", "citizens-assembly" ], "last_checked": "2026-09-16", "rss_feed": "https://www.yourparty.uk/feed", "ics_feed": "", "activity": { "dod": { "date": "2026-09-16", "note": "Site live at yourparty.uk: describes CEC elections scheduled Feb 2026, active fundraising/join CTAs, address The Atrium, Fonthill Road London; social channels active under @thisisyourparty.", "url": "https://www.yourparty.uk", "checked": "2026-09-16" }, "social": { "date": "2026-06-05", "note": "Latest tweet: police accountability post", "url": "https://x.com/thisisyourparty" }, "rss": { "checked": "2026-06-07", "date": "2026-06-07", "note": "RSS feed active", "url": "https://www.yourparty.uk/feed" } }, "contact_email": "herewego@yourparty.uk", "contact_phone": "", "contact_form": "", "contact_channels": [], "location": { "latitude": 51.5074, "longitude": -0.1278, "name": "London, United Kingdom" }, "activity_date": "2026-09-16", "activity_method": "dod" } ] }