Democratics Lab

It will be based on the latest research and surveys on the cognitive frameworks (framing) of Spanish citizenship. We will understand: Why are people who are not intolerant attracted to authoritarian discourses? How can this trend be counteracted?

Digital strategies and tactics used successfully in other similar international contexts will be used.

Methodologies will be used in the workshop that will favor collective intelligence.

Digidem Guide

Digidem Guide is an application to guide the user to find the right digital tools for direct democratic participation through the Internet. The application will help users find the right tools based on criteria such as field of application, scope, need for security, technical knowledge or licensing...

Edition marathon 'Edita Tu Deuda'

The Edita tu Deuda edition marathon aims to improve the focus, quality and number of articles on debt, debt types and related content, as well as economic concepts and jargon, which are normally described in a technical and incomprehensible way for citizens. The aim of the edition is to increase public knowledge about debt and the economy with a much closer language and from a social perspective, given the direct relationship between the economy and the well-being of the population. Another of the objectives of this edition is to raise public awareness of the need for greater transparency and

Empurrando Juntos

This project addresses the challenge of collective deliberation with the construction of a webapp based on free software, to facilitate discussion processes. The webapp will be based on the source of one of the best considered collective deliberation applications, Pol.is. The project expands the...

Extending Consul’s Participatory Budgeting Functionality

Participatory budgeting (PB) is one of the most popular types of participatory democracy practices in the United States. It’s utilized in dozens of cities in the US and hundreds in the English-speaking world. As such, PB can serve as a foothold for participatory democracy in the US that can be...

GANA Municipales

Nariño in the South of Colombia is one of the regions with more diversity in the world. Nevertheless its human richness, geographical or cultural has been victim of the war in Colombia. One of the wealthiness of the Department in Nariño is its population diversity: farmers, indigenous people, afro...

Holopolis: prototyping future democracy

Taiwan has been experimenting with bringing citizens and government together in a civic deliberation process for crafting digital legislation. Our process, vTaiwan, brings people directly into governance and helps lawmakers implement decisions with a greater degree of legitimacy. We see our project...

Ideatón x the SDGs

This workshop organized by Medialab Prado and Cybervolunteers proposes build a space for dialogue, collaborative work and creation of proposals between citizens and social agents in the recognition and resolution of those global challenges that affect our daily lives. This call is part of the research project that takes place in Medialab called Citizen Narratives of the 2030 Agenda and the Objectives of Sustainable Development, where it is intended to promote processes for citizen empowerment on proposals and initiatives that transform our local reality and contribute to a good common globally

Indicators to measure democratic quality of processes

From different areas, work is being done to generate indicators to measure the quality of participatory processes. In some cases they tend to be mostly quantitative, especially in digital tools; where data extraction is easier. Now, processes tend more and more to hybridization. Not only because...

Interactive Workshop 'El Paraíso de la Deuda' (Debt Paradise)

El Paraíso de la Deuda (Debt Paradise) is both a workshop and a videogame, which we will play collectively and interactively so that anyone, from children to the "big ones", can understand the complex terms used in economic jargon, such as 'sovereign debt', 'bank loan' and 'labor reform', among many others.

To do this, we will put ourselves in the shoes of a cat king who will have to watch over the happiness of his people, having to face the expenses that this entails, while trying to control the debt. If we do things right our dear citizens will be happy, but as we screw up the coffers of