The Network of Democratic Commons was born after the meeting in Media Lab Prado. It is defined as a network of "people from different cities that, since 2015", is organized...

The first day of Democratic Cities meeting addressed how citizen participation and self-organization can reconfigure the economic system

The meeting "Democratic cities: common technologies and the right to a democratic city", held in Madrid from May 23 to 28, generated an important international dialogue between some of the...

Open-source and collaborative repositories, feminist hackers, open urban maps, citizens’ juries and participatory processes, videos of denunciation and opinion, community building, dynamic games, electoral campaign kits. Prototypes and processes developed...

From Madrid to the world: dozens of institutions replicate the Madrid Decide platform.

"Democratic Cities", the festival of participation technologies, was held on November 17 and 18 at the Teatro Español in Madrid. There were 2 days of international conferences, with experts and...

The international workshop #CIDemocracy- Collective Intelligence for Democracy organised by ParticipaLab at MediaLab Prado in late November 2016 produces tangible results. 15 days, 8 interdisciplinary groups, 80 participants from 30...

From Paris to Iceland, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Spain. Researchers, municipal technicians and activists from different countries have shared their new batch of direct democracy strategies, open source software, and...

This year we have 10 projects, hope you find some of them interesting. We encourage you to come as a collaborator. Visit our open call for collaborators here.

International workshop: Collective Intelligence for Democracy from November 6th to November 18th. Come with us to have two weeks of collaborative work, multidisciplinary teams around projects related to democracy, citizen...