Democracy

Agency for Citizen Participation Baden-Wüerttemberg

The Baden-Württemberg Dialogic Citizen Participation Service Center is a service offered by the state to all authorities and administrations to support citizen participation. It has grown out of the staff unit of the State Councillor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation. It provides advice and support free of charge and unbureaucratically.

Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra is an independent future fund. We carry out in foresight activities to understand the phenomena that influence the future, and together withour partners conduct experiments and pilot projects that strengthen the reform and resilience of society. We also provide tools to all interested parties to help them develop their future-oriented […]

Rosa Zubizarreta-Adai

Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada is an organization development consultant, author, researcher, and teacher of advanced facilitation practices. She has been learning about the Citizens’ Councils in Austria since they began in 2006, and as of 2023 is completing a dissertation on this topic.

Rosana Rodrigues

Rosana is a sociologist with a master in Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism (Coimbra University – Portugal). She is the manager of the Fortaleza Observatory, where she identifies and proposes innovative dialogues between society and government.

Ed Cox

Ed is the Director for Inclusive Growth at West Midlands Combined Authority (the mayoral body for the Birmingham city region). Ed is also the chair of Involve, one of the UK’s leading public participation charities.

Félix Romo-Gasson

Félix is the director of SESEA Chihuahua and member of the Academic Network of Open Government (Red RAGA).He strongly believes in transparency and accountability. Along with his team, he promotes citizen engagement across government initiatives as a tool to outweigh systemic corruption.

Mauricio Mejia

Mauricio works at the OECD, on the transition to an open state in LAC and the future of democracy. He strongly believes in the need to design new democratic infrastructures and digital public spaces to better include citizens and redistribute power. Mauricio teaches at SciencesPo Paris.

Lauren Howard

Lauren has worked in stakeholder engagement across private, public and not-for-profit sectors. She is a strong believer in creating spaces to foster dialogue from different perspectives, and is a champion for inclusive and participatory practices.

Komponent

Komponent assist the municipalities with development and practice-oriented competence development, locally anchored courses, analyses and advise within and across all the municipal welfare areas directed towards practitioners, managers and politicians. Komponent also design and facilitate citizen assemblies and other forms of deliberative democracy.