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What Young People Are Seeing, Changing and Questioning
A tote bag. A shrinking river. Plastic waste. A community where rubbish is not collected on time. These might seem like unrelated things, but they all appeared when we asked young people a simple question: what does protecting...
LIPA
COLUMN The Future of Democracy Is in Your Local Trash
And That's a Good Thing
THE HAGUE
LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Jan Van Zanen
'Peace Is Built at the Level of Government Closest to the People'
Image credit: OECD
BOGOTA
READINGS How to Become a Better Municipal Copycat
OECD Toolkit Can Teach Your City How to Steal (Ideas)
Photo from Amazon press kit
PHULERA
COLUMN The Best Local Democracy Show in the World
A Hindi-Language Portrait of a Village Panchayat Gets It Right
PAPUA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES From Forests to Fields of State Ambitions
Food Estate Project in Indonesia Creates Uncertainty for Lives, Livelihoods, Culture
TANGIER
NEWS: What Did the World's Cities and a Global Trade Union Just Agree...
Public Service Intl and United Cities and Local Governments Strike a Deal
SAN MATEO
COLUMN An Inescapable, and Very Local, Political Family
The Lemperts Love Door-Knocking and Complicated Issues
LAMU COUNTY
AWARD Lamu County Wins World's Leading Prize for Local Peacebuilding
The north Kenya government codified peace in municipal law and budget.
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN I Pledge Allegiance to the United Scammers of America
For the 250th, Why Not a New Name?
Germany
Young people may not like AI as much as you think…
Have you noticed that Gen Z is on the rise against Artificial Intelligence (AI) globally? They do not only ‘’...
LOS ANGELES
WORLD CUP OF DEMOCRACY Onto the Semifinals
A World Cup Decided by Participation and Deliberation Reaches Knockout Rounds