Stories

Digital Democracy and e-Governance
Digitalisation Can Divide Us or Empower Democracy — We Decide
Town halls are moving online, we are able to sign petitions from the comfort of our own homes, and collective action can suddenly start with a simple hashtag. Whether it is better connectivity, the ability to strengthen networks...
IDC Theme of the Month
Digital Democracy & e-Governance: How Digital Tools are Reshaping Citizen Participation in the 21st Century
On the International Democracy Community (IDC) platform, we're introducing monthly themes inspired by the ideas and interests you shared in our recent survey. We're kicking things off with the theme Digital Democracy and e-...
European Union
Under construction: the ECI
This year's European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) Day showed once again that the world's first and only...
European Union
ECI Day 2018: Working together
On April 10, 2018, the ECI Day took place in Brussels for the seventh time, with the main organiser and host...
European Union
“We are fighting with unequal means”
In a last-minute bit of good news ahead of this year’s ECI Day, the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’...
Taiwan
How Taiwan got one of world´s best direct democracy laws
The first European explorers from Portugal called this land simply Ilha Formosa, the beautiful island. Today...
Peru
The missed opportunity of direct demoracy in Peru
After almost a century of politically and economically turbulent times, Peru has re-established democratic...
Global
What drives citizen participation?
For seven years, Dr Klaus Hofmann has been researching legal instruments of direct democracy worldwide for...
Belgium
Crowdsourcing is a step forward in citizen participation
This year's Digital Democracy Day, initiated by ECAS, focused on the question of how crowdsourcing can...
Global
All roads lead to Rome – Join us for the 2018 Global Forum on Modern...
Climate change, inequality, conflict - our challenges today are so great that we cannot pretend to be able...
Germany
What companies can teach democracy
The most successful companies have learned how to continuously adapt to new challenges, if we want to make...
Netherlands
Meer Democratie Netherlands to sue Minister over Abolition of the Dutch...
Meer Democratie, our Dutch partner organisation, is starting a legal case against Dutch Minister of Interior...