An alliance of European democracy innovators, brought together by the Council of Europe, is working on creating a networked incubator for participatory democracy, with city governments around Europe and beyond.
The incubator will support initiatives - digital and offline - that aim at enriched roles for citizens and representatives, that make a significant contribution to the redistribution of political power, and that support inclusion and the broadest possible participation in democracy. It will help create, replicate and scale up democratic innovations, building open infrastructure to boost democracy for smart, inclusive and innovative cities, connecting innovators and cities, and helping them to replicate and scale ideas.
In this workshop, members of the team behind the incubator will:
- Share their progress so far, and their hopes for the programme
- Ask participants to help them develop their ideas on what is needed and how the incubator can take ideas from small innovations to changing whole city systems
- Discuss the priorities for the incubator's work.
