Political Parties stories and resources
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Making democracy work at campaign speed
Behind Zohran Mamdani's historic mayoral primary win was a decision-making system that coordinated 13,000 members with zero paid staff.
- Binding votes at scale
- Anonymous member voting
- Clear record of every decision
- Full data control via self-hosting
How a political party writes policy across a vast state
A political party stretched across vast Western Australia needed to turn hundreds of voices into unified policy — clause by clause, region by region.
- Policy input from regional groups
- Clause-by-clause policy draft review
- Pre-built consensus shortens meetings
- Iterative amendments until consensus
Cross-government initiative consults nationwide on sensitive policy framework
A national workforce capability framework on family and sexual violence was shaped through careful online consultation that drew meaningful, detailed…
- Closed nationwide sensitive-topic consultation
- Meaningful multi-sector feedback
- Clear process driving engagement
- Organized threads meeting government deadlines
National legislature deepens citizen engagement between sessions
A Welsh parliamentary committee turned a one-off citizen meeting into an ongoing dialogue that made both sessions more productive.
- Extended discussion between sessions
- Two-way citizen-policymaker dialogue
- Bilingual Welsh-English content
- Online agreement before meetings
Government agency runs transparent open source policy consultation
A national government agency replaced the traditional submissions process with open online dialogue, engaging senior IT leaders who would never have…
- Open, transparent policy consultation
- Two-way consensus-building conversations
- Engage hard-to-reach professionals
- Transparent policy document revision
g0v summit 2014: Taiwan and the future of democracy
I had the immense honour of being invited to participate in the g0v Summit in Taipei last year. The Summit was basically a chance for 700 people to get…
View event →Democracy coalition launches 461 citizen groups across a nation
A coalition of direct democracy groups launched hundreds of local decision-making groups covering every region of Greece, turning online discussion into…
- Nationwide citizen political participation
- Accessible to non-technical citizens
- Transparent voting with participation tracking
- Collective pressure on local officials
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