Federation for Innovation in Democracy (FIDE) North America holds Citizens Assembly School conference in Washington DC. Conference illuminates current state of deliberative democracy in US.

Decidim is a software framework for citizan participation in democratic processes. These processes can involve elections, sortitions, referenda, initiatives, and other processes, or even multiple independent processes, as the system is configured on an ongoing basis. The public participates in the political activity topics using smart phones, computers, etc

How do you know if your town or city is a democracy? One way to understand the question is to examine cities that are considered leaders in local democratic practice and innovation. See what Barcelona and Bogota are doing.

On September 23, 2021, Linn Davis (Healthy Democracy) and Wayne Liebman (Public Access Democracy) traveled to Sacramento for the California League of Cities Conference, an annual gathering of mayors and city council members from across the state.