Designing Participatory Democracy

Digidem Lab believes in improving, developing and innovating our democracy. We believe in shifting power and mandate to formulate society's problems and solutions. Therefore, we provide and develop methods for political and democratic innovation.

New Nordic Deliberation Partnership

In a shared ambition to strengthen the Nordic democracies, the partnership Nordic Deliberation has now been founded.

New course in local organising

Do you want to get new tools to make the difference you or your organisation is working on?

The Swedish Food Agency organises the first Swedish citizens' assembly!

Sweden's first national citizens' panel met for the first time and began its work to produce recommendations for the Swedish Food Agency.

Our services

Participatory Budget and Citizen Participation

Process design and digital tools for participatory budgets.
Focus on underrepresented groups.
Digital platforms combined with physical processes.

Community organising

Methods for local organising.
Build local knowledge and power.
Create resilient and strong organisations.

Civic Tech and Digital Development

Develops digital technologies for civil society.
Building alliances in the civic tech field.
Advocating for inclusive and citizen-centric digital development.

Citizens' assembly

A demographically representative group is assembled.
During facilitated meetings, they have structured discussions of the issues.
They formulate recommendations that are passed on to decision-making bodies.

Projects

We develop participatory democracy for everything from international institutions and cities to local associations.

More projects

Official Decidim partner

Partner in Collective Intelligence through Digital Tools

Co-founding partner of Nordic Deliberation Network