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Sep 24

The Civic Engagement Scorecard: Rating Civic Life in Your Community

by Quixada Moore-Vissing, PhD (Public Agenda) In order to improve democracy and strengthen civic infrastructure, citizens need opportunit...

Sep 12

Three Ways Remote Work Could Help Democracy

This paper discusses how remote work can impact on democracy by Increasing leisure resulting in more time and capacity for political acti...

Aug 8

If the answer is Zoom, you’re asking the wrong question

by Danielle Topaz (Delib) Since much of the world went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have been concerned,

May 15

Improving Citizen-Led Democracy Tools

This paper analyses the strenghts and weaknesses of the digitaldemocracy market and makes recommendations for future development. To re...

Apr 17

Digital Democracy and COVID-19

Abstract: This article describes some of the ways technology is being used to facilitate governance during the coronavirus pandemic, and ...

Feb 4

Blockchain Governance

Dr. Renny Rudea, member of our our advisory board, has recently published an article in TEM Journal: The Institutional Landscape of Blo...

Jan 14

2020 SDI Digital Democracy Report

The Solonian Democracy Institute is proud to announce the release of the SDI 2020 Digital Democracy Report. Over the past six months we ...

Oct 25, 2018

Unheard Voices - Fingal County Council

The Solonian Democracy Institute (SDI) has been selected for a pilot project run by Fingal County Council and SMART Dublin. As part of th...

Jul 16, 2018

DemCon Convention in Dublin

From the 18th to 20th of July 2018 the Solonian Democracy Institute organised the first Democracy Convention (DemCon) in Dublin attended ...

Jun 8, 2017

Participatory Budgeting and Citizen Participation

On June 8th 2017, the Solonian Democracy Institute held its inaugural conference in Dublin, Ireland. The focus of the conference was Part...

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