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The Global Forum in Mexico – Hands off our democracy!

From 27 February until 7 March the 2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy took place in Mexico and was...

Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy 2022

Home stretch: less than 100 days to the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

Finally! After two years of pandemic-related uncertainty and a first-ever online edition, our much-...

That's a wrap - Looking back on the first Online Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

From 21-29 September of this year, the world's largest gathering of direct democracy activists and experts...

Save the date: the Global Forum goes online

From 21 until 29 September Democracy International will be organising an online conference on modern direct...

World Citizens’ Initiative welcomed at Global Forum on Direct Democracy

This year, Democracy International, together with Democracy Without Borders and CIVICUS, started a...

Donostia Declaration Underlines Urgency for Democratization

DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN DECLARATION ON MODERN DIRECT DEMOCRACY: The 2016 Global Forum adopted a call for more...

The Democratization of Information: Bad for Democracy?

The world now confronts a bitter irony: the democratization of information has proven not to be all that good...

How Direct Democracy Makes Representative Democracy More Representative

There are many new opportunities for making representative more representative – by tools of direct democracy...

The 2016 Global Forum On Modern Direct Democracy Report

The sixth edition of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy took place in Donostia/San Sebastiàn, in the...

Global Forum 2016: How Cities Fix Democracy

Reykjavik, Vienna, Seoul, Los Angeles and Bern: these are pioneering cities in terms of modern participatory...