News
2024-11-15
The call for applications for the 19th OIDP “ Best Practice in Citizen Participation” Award is now open!
2024-11-12
Join the webinar series “Discovering the Winners of the 18th OIDP Award”!
2024-10-23
More than 350 participants from local and regional governments gathered in Valongo for our 23rd Conference to call for democratic resilience
2024-10-21
The Municipality of Iztapalapa Wins the 18th IOPD Award
2024-10-08
REGISTRATION CLOSED: Vote for the Host City of the IOPD 2026 Conference
2024-09-17
Join the IOPD 2024 Assembly - October 7
2024-07-09
Call to host the 25th IOPD Conference in 2026
2024-07-04
IOPD Valongo 2024 Conference: Pre-registration now available
2024-06-18
You can now vote for your favourite practice for the 18th IOPD Award!
2024-05-23
127 applications submitted for the 18th IOPD Award 2024!
2024-05-09
Join the online session "Safeguarding SDG 11.3.2"
2024-04-15
Call for proposals for sessions or interventions at the IOPD 2024 Conference in Valongo
2024-04-11
Barcelona hosted a seminar on Policies and technologies for participatory democracy
2024-03-27
Interview with Annabelle Bretton, Councilwoman in charge of participatory democracy in Grenoble
2024-03-26
Call to join the jury of the 18th IOPD Award
2024-02-27
The IOPD participates in the 2024 UCLG Retreat and Annual Campus
2024-02-15
The call for the 2024 IOPD Award is now open!
2024-02-06
IOPD calls for peer learning sessions
2024-01-29
Córdoba will host the 24th conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
2023-11-20
Rio de Janeiro Declaration: Driving Measures to Strengthen Participatory Democracy and Address Global Challenges
2023-11-08
Rio de Janeiro hosted the 22nd IOPD Conference from 6 to 8 November 2023
2023-11-08
Rennes wins the 17th IOPD Award
2023-10-25
IOPD General Assembly 2023: We Invite Our Membership to Participate
2023-10-25
Apply to be the first IOPD woman Co-Chair to champion for gender equality in our network!
2023-10-25
Become Part of the Leadership of Our Network
2023-10-11
Barcelona kicks off its activities as 1st European Capital of Democracy (ECoD) 2023-2024
2023-09-18
IOPD organised a webinar for the International Day of Democracy 2023
2023-09-14
Call to host the 24th IOPD Conference in 2025
2023-09-12
IOPD Interview: Municipality of Iztapalapa (Mexico City)
2023-09-04
The IOPD is participating on the 8th Open Government Partnership Global Summit
2023-09-01
You can now vote for your favourite practice for the 17th IOPD Award!
2023-08-04
IOPD publishes a policy paper on Feminism and Participatory Democracy
2023-08-03
Upcoming IOPD webinar: International Day of Democracy
2023-07-31
Bogota has organized the International Congress on Participatory Budgeting
2023-07-11
IOPD Interview: District Institute of Participation and Community Action of Bogota
2023-07-10
IOPD organized a session on co-creation in the localization of the SDGs
2023-07-07
Finalists for the 17 IOPD Award
2023-06-30
Call for proposals for sessions or interventions at the IOPD 2023 Conference
2023-06-26
DecidimKids: a new digital module for child participation in Barcelona
2023-06-20
The IOPD took part in the 7th European Meeting on Participation
2023-06-15
The City of Montreal launches the Réflexion 2050 consultation on the City Project
2023-06-14
PeoplePowerd Accelerator - Create democratic solutions for climate and digital challenges
2023-06-07
149 applications submitted for the 17th IOPD Award 2023!
2023-06-02
Upcoming IOPD webinar: Co-creation in the localization of the SDGs
2023-05-26
Valongo promotes the UTOPIA session in collaboration with the Lab2050 project
2023-05-19
The IOPD co-organizes the UCLG Future Envisioning Exercise: Regaining Trust
2023-05-10
The Grenoble Citizens' Climate Convention puts forward 219 proposals for action
2023-05-08
São Paulo will host the Open Government Week 2023
2023-05-05
IOPD participates in the 17 Rooms 2023 initiative
2023-05-04
Barcelona: First European Capital of Democracy
2023-04-27
The City of Rio de Janeiro launches the Global Network of Anti-Racist Cities
2023-04-26
Bogota to invest 30 million pesos in incentives to promote innovation in participation
2023-04-25
Call for applications to join the juries of the 17th IOPD Award
2023-04-24
Parisians vote in referendum to remove electric scooters for hire from the capital's streets
2023-04-21
Arantzazulab publishes the first results of the project 'Conceptions of democracy in the Basque Country'
2023-04-19
SAVE THE DATE for 2023 IOPD Conference
2023-04-12
The call for the 2023 IOPD Award is now open!
2023-04-04
The IOPD organized a session on Municipal Feminism: Towards the political participation of women in all their diversity!
2022-12-14
Grenoble Declaration: the ecological transition and social justice will only be achieved with the participation of all!
2022-12-13
Grenoble hosted the 21st IOPD Conference from December 7 to 10, 2022
2022-12-12
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has won the 16th Award Best Practice in Citizen Participation
2022-11-23
Call for nominations of Promoter Member
2022-11-11
Call for the IOPD General Assembly 2022
2022-10-21
Cascais hosted the 5th Iberian Meeting on Democracy and Participatory Budgeting
2022-10-18
UCLG Congress took place in Daejeon from October 10 to 14
2022-10-14
IOPD Award finalists unveiled at UCLG Congress in Daejeon
2022-10-07
Two months before the IOPD Conference in Grenoble: important information
2022-10-04
UCLG Congress and World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders
2022-09-28
The IOPD participates in the Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy 2022
2022-09-27
Call to host the IOPD Conference in 2024
2022-07-14
Definitive list of finalist candidatures for the 16th IOPD Award
2022-07-13
Grenoble organizes the 48 hours of Cities in Transition - New Urban Proximities
2022-07-04
Barcelona adopts new citizen participation regulations that update direct democracy mechanisms
2022-06-23
The open evaluation of the 16th IOPD Award has ended.
2022-06-20
IOPD participates in the 2022 UCLG Executive Bureau
2022-06-09
Commenting and voting phase of candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
2022-05-19
Recovering the history of the IOPD: share your memories
2022-05-17
Contributions to create the Participatory Democracy Index are now open
2022-05-13
Call for proposals for the IOPD 2022 Conference
2022-04-22
Registration is open to form part of the working groups for the development of indicators of participatory democracy
2022-04-22
Barcelona promotes child participation
2022-04-05
Montreal launches a city-wide consultation to develop the 2050 Mobility and Urban Plan
2022-03-16
The call for the 2022 IOPD Award is now open
2022-03-04
The Crossroads of Sustainability, Climate Change and Health : practical approaches and lessons for the post-covid cities and territories
2022-03-02
UCLG meets at the retreat preceding the Daejeon Congress in October
2022-02-07
The IOPD begins the development of a quality index of participatory democracy
2021-12-07
IOPD held its 20th Conference's Virtual Week
2021-11-16
The City of Lima has won the 15th Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award
2021-10-27
Cocody hosted the 20th IOPD Conference on Sustainable Cities/Territories and Participatory Democracy
2021-10-13
Call to host the IOPD Conference in 2023
2021-10-11
The IOPD participated in the 2nd World Forum of Intermediary Cities
2021-09-29
Berliners voted in favor to expropriate big landlords in referendum
2021-09-15
2021 International Day of Democracy
2021-09-10
Paris tests majority voting in the participatory budget
2021-09-02
Next Local Democracy Talks on Participatory Climate Action will be held next September 15
2021-08-30
"Culture: Shaping the Future" The UCLG Culture Summit
2021-07-28
The 20th IOPD conference will be held the 20, 21 and 22 October in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2021-06-21
Barcelona's first participatory budgets achieve a participation of nearly 39,500 people
2021-06-03
Barcelona transforms the former Canódromo into the Ateneo de Innovación Digital y Democrática (Digital and Democratic Innovation Lab)
2021-06-02
Call to join the jury of the 15h IOPD Award
2021-06-01
Commenting and voting phase of the 15th IOPD Award has finished
2021-05-28
Local leaders share experiences on participatory budgeting
2021-05-17
Commenting and voting phase of candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
2021-05-12
On 27 May the panel Participatory Budget: Let Citizens Decide will take place
2021-05-07
Three mayors share experiences and challenges on citizen participation practices
2021-05-04
Consultation on Reinventing Democracy in Intermediary Cities
2021-04-26
UCLG will organize on April 30th a session on Intermediary Cities and reinventing local democracy
2021-04-22
Webinar on participatory budgeting and ecological transition
2021-04-21
IOPD co-organises with UCLG MEWA a webinar on civic engagement
2021-04-13
The IOPD will host a webinar on the Contributions of Participatory Budgeting to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
2021-04-09
Consultation on the Myanmar crisis held by Gwangju city: Call for human rights cities solidarity
2021-04-08
The citizens of Barcelona cast nearly 48,000 endorsements of the participatory budget projects and prioritized the 204 projects that will be submitted to the final vote
2021-03-29
The role of local participatory democracy practices in advancing urban equality: A conversation between UCLG-CSIPDHR and IOPD members
2021-03-08
On International Women's Day 2021 we call for the effective participation of women in public affairs
2021-03-05
The IOPD hosts a series of webinars on the role of participatory budgeting in the ecological transition
2021-02-12
The call for the 2021 IOPD Award is now open
2021-02-12
On hold since March, participatory budgets are reactivated in Barcelona
2021-02-11
UCLG Retreat & Campus takes place 15-22 February
2021-02-03
People Powered launches "How to Start a Climate Assembly" online course
2021-02-01
New regulations for volunteering and citizen consultation for youth and children in Lima
2021-01-27
The OCPM announces the consultation on the University of Montreal development project
2021-01-04
European Democracy action plan presented by the European Union
2020-12-24
Barcelona opens a new space for participation by young people
2020-12-18
"Women's interests might be perceived as something particular to them, leading to harmful decisions for 50% of the population"
2020-12-16
"Since Participatory Budgeting, we have seen an uptick in local elections and boarding commission applications"
2020-12-15
A panel on the lessons learnt on local democracy was held on 14 December
2020-12-04
Philadelphia Announces Participatory Budgeting to Reduce Racial Disparities
2020-12-02
Barcelona City Council presents the new Municipal Action Plan
2020-11-24
Decalogue for Participatory Slum Upgrading programmes in pandemic times
2020-11-23
Call for Contributions to the 2021 Work Plan
2020-11-17
The City and the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg announced on Friday measures to stimulate citizen participation
2020-11-17
UCLG's World Council was held virtually on 9-13 November
2020-10-28
France's Rencontres Nationales de la Participation were held on 19-23 October
2020-10-27
Local Participatory Budgeting has been institutionalised in Benin
2020-10-26
The 4th International Conference Paths to Follow was held on 19 and 20 October
2020-10-14
Reactions of Local and Regional Governments to UN75 Report
2020-10-14
The Participatory Budget of Lisbon received the Best Practices of Participation Award 2019.
2020-10-08
The IOPD co-organised an international gathering on participatory democracy
2020-10-05
The City of Buenos Aires has been awarded the 14th Award
2020-10-01
A Virtual Meeting on Participatory Democracy will be held on 5 October
2020-09-29
The city of Valongo will celebrate the European week of local democracy 2020
2020-07-20
UCLG has called for maintaining the SDGs as the framework in the 2020 edition of the HLPF
2020-07-09
IOPD Africa's webinar to launch the regional consultation took place on 14 July
2020-07-08
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy presents its new corporate identity
2020-07-07
International Forum on the Challenges of Citizen Participation, organized by the IECM
2020-06-25
Live Learning Experience: Local Democracy
2020-06-15
The Alcobendas City Council creates a School of Citizen Participation and Innovation
2020-04-29
Call to join the jury of the 14th IOPD Award
2020-04-28
UCLG presents its Decalogue for the COVID-19 aftermath
2020-04-21
"Citizen Cooperation facing COVID-19" space at ParticipateOIDP platform is now open
2020-04-17
Commenting and voting phase of the 14th IOPD Award has finished
2020-04-01
Commenting and voting phase of IOPD Award candidacies begins
2020-03-31
The 20th IOPD Conference has been postponed and is set to take place in 2021
2020-03-23
Faced with isolation, citizens strength their solidarity
2020-03-23
Citizens' and Youth Agoras overwhelmingly supported by EU Parliament
2020-03-18
39 proposals have been submitted to the 14th IOPD Award
2020-03-11
Survey on SDG Localization
2020-03-09
2020 International Women's Day
2020-03-03
The IOPD at the 6th UCLG Retreat and Campus
2020-03-03
The IOPD collects experiences of Participatory Budgeting and Climate Change
2020-02-28
The Warwick District Council citizens will vote on "climate action fund"
2020-02-17
The IOPD at the WUF 10 - Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation
2020-02-11
First participatory budgeting in Barcelona
2020-01-27
Participatory Budgeting in the City of Vancouver's West End
2020-01-23
The call for the 2020 IOPD Award is now open!
2020-01-17
The French Citizens' Assembly on Climate change
2020-01-15
The IOPD will be present at the Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF 10)
2019-12-19
2019 General Assembly outcomes
2019-12-17
IOPD 19th Conference
2019-12-17
Third day of the 19th IOPD International Conference in Iztapalapa
2019-12-17
Second day of the 19th IOPD International Conference in Iztapalapa
2019-12-17
First day of the 19h IOPD International Conference
2019-12-13
The 20th IOPD Conference will be held in Cocody (Ivory Coast) 2020
2019-12-11
Nariño wins the 13th IOPD Award
2019-12-05
Decidim, the digital platform, at the service of human rights entities in Barcelona
2019-11-28
The city of Montreal adopted its first participatory budgeting for 2020
2019-11-26
A Citizens' Assembly about gender equality launched by the Irish government
2019-11-25
International IDEA launches the 2019 Global State of Democracy
2019-11-20
World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders. Durban-Ethekwini, November 2019
2019-11-19
IOPD Special Lab at the UCLG World Summit - Listening to Citizens, Local Democracy at the Center of Governance
2019-11-15
A national network for participatory budgets in France
2019-11-14
Opening of a School Lab funded by participatory budgeting in NYC
2019-11-11
The french city of Strasbourg is launching its second Participatory Budgeting
2019-11-05
'Nazi emergency' declared in Dresden, a German city
2019-10-30
Local Democracy will be at the core of the 2019 UCLG Congress
2019-10-25
Conference in Valongo in the framework of the European Week of Local Democracy
2019-10-25
From "Citizen Budget" to Participatory Budgeting in Egypt
2019-10-22
The IOPD participated in Cascais Smart Citizenship Academy, in Portugal
2019-10-14
Marc Serra, new IOPD Secretary General
2019-10-11
The stage to participate in the elaboration of the IOPD General Assembly's Final Resolution is now open
2019-10-11
Call for the IOPD 2019 General Assembly
2019-10-11
Five youth program get funded thanks to participatory budgeting in the City of Victoria, Canada
2019-10-10
Dublin votes in favour of a pilot projet of participatory budgeting
2019-10-08
The IOPD participated in Taichung Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, in Taiwan.
2019-10-02
IOPD 13th Award Finalists
2019-09-12
Marc Serra new Secretary General of the IOPD
2019-09-10
Call for Candidate Cities to host the next IOPD Conference 2020
2019-07-22
PBP launches a global collaboration project on participatory budgeting
2019-07-17
Press conference and public presentation of the 19th IOPD conference
2019-07-16
The website of the 2019 IOPD conference is now available
2019-07-04
Barcelona on its pursuit on low emission areas.
2019-07-01
The comments and voting stage of the 13th IOPD Award has finished.
2019-06-26
Call to join the jury of the 13th IOPD Award
2019-06-26
Incentives for Organizational Participation: A Recruitment Experiment in Mexico
2019-06-26
Join and participate in the preparation of the IOPD 2019 Conference Program!
2019-06-18
Scotland promotes a citizen assembly chosen by lot
2019-06-14
Comments and voting phase of the candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
2019-06-04
Participedia update their web on global participatory experiences
2019-06-04
The City Council of Edinburgh involves citizens for the protection of the environment
2019-05-21
The secretary general of the IOPD participates in several conferences in Mexico
2019-05-17
Citizen participation is at the center of the Portuguese municipality debate
2019-05-09
Belgium promotes a new democratic mechanism
2019-04-16
The call for the IOPD Award 2019 is now open!
2019-04-01
19th IOPD Conference Concept Note
2019-03-06
The IOPD collects experiences of localization of the SDGs and local democracy
2019-03-01
Berlin set to hold referendum on banning big landlords and nationalising private rented housing
2019-02-18
Metz has established the first participatory budget eco-citizen of France for 2019
2019-02-18
The IOPD has participated in the 5th UCLG Retreat and Campus
2019-01-31
The City Council of Madrid launches a permanent deliberative panel with citizens chosen by lot
2019-01-16
La Paz already has laws proposed by citizens through the Citizens Legislative Initiative (ILC)
2018-12-21
Taoyuan wins the XII IOPD Award
2018-12-21
The Bordeaux City Council approves a participatory budgeting of 2,5 million euros
2018-12-18
The Valencia City Council submits a new regulation on citizen participation
2018-12-11
Barcelona hosts the #Cities4Rights international conference
2018-12-11
The 19th IOPD Conference will be held in Iztapalapa (Mexico) at the end of 2019
2018-12-10
The IOPD highlights the importance of an active citizenship to defend human rights
2018-11-30
The 18th IOPD Conference comes to an end after three days of intense debate in Barcelona
2018-11-07
The IOPD took part in the UCLG World Council 2018
2018-11-06
Agenda for Local Democracy
2018-10-18
The general secretariat launches a new consultation among the members of the IOPD
2018-10-10
Call for the IOPD 2018 General Assembly
2018-10-08
International meeting HABITAT III+2: Quito cities laboratory of the New Urban Agenda
2018-09-29
Rome has hosted the Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy
2018-09-19
The IOPD conference program is now available!
2018-09-10
The IOPD participates in Moscow in a conference on participatory budgeting
2018-09-04
The call for candidacies for the Presidency of the IOPD next 2019 is now open
2018-07-30
The stage to participate in the elaboration of the IOPD Agenda for the Local Democracy is now open
2018-07-13
The IOPD participates in the 1st World Forum of Intermediary Cities
2018-07-11
IV iberian meeting of democracy and participatory budgeting
2018-07-05
Inscriptions for the 18th IOPD Conference are now open
2018-06-25
The Scottish Government has announced the latest round of the Community Choices Fund
2018-06-25
Italian local elections, 2018
2018-06-22
Participatory Budgeting event in Intermediary Cities World Forum
2018-06-21
A Coruña will host the IV Iberian Meeting of Democracy and Participatory Budget from the 4th to the 6th July
2018-06-20
The Mayor of London has launched #CrowdfundLDN - a £1m fund to support projects that benefit local communities.
2018-06-20
Barcelona organizes the workshop Citizens' Consultations in a Local World: Democracy without Intermediation
2018-06-19
THE OCPM launches a consultation on access roads to Mount Royal
2018-06-15
2018 Participatory Budgeting in NYC
2018-06-13
Swiss citizens vote again on June 10
2018-06-12
Panel Innovative democracy and open government at CEMR 2018 Conference
2018-06-11
The IOPD takes part in the printemps des citoyens de Metz
2018-06-08
"Decide Madrid" receives the United Nation Public Service Award 2018
2018-06-01
The comments and voting stage of the 12th IOPD Award has finished
2018-05-31
The Irish abortion referendum: How a Citizens' Assembly helped to break years of political deadlock
2018-05-24
Preparatory workshop for the 18th IOPD Conference:
2018-05-24
Stockholm hosts a conference about how to improve democracy
2018-05-10
Local elections in UK 2018
2018-05-08
65 candidacies have been submitted to the 12th IOPD Award
2018-05-03
The Aragon Open Government Laboratory (LAAAB) starts up
2018-04-19
The city of Grenoble organizes a preparatory workshop for the IOPD Conference 2018 on the 22nd May
2018-04-12
The web page of the 2018 IOPD Conference is now available
2018-04-12
European Citizens' Initiative Day calls for genuine citizen participation
2018-04-04
A citizens' initiative gets more than one million signatures in favor of linguistic diversity in Europe
2018-03-22
Dutch municipal elections, 2018
2018-03-22
ALGA forms its first cohort of facilitators in participatory budget
2018-03-19
The call for the IOPD Award 2018 is now open!
2018-03-14
Latin America and the Caribbean come together to protect the right of their citizens to participate in environmental decisions
2018-03-13
Inaugurated the Civic Hall, the participatory democracy laboratory in Paris
2018-03-09
The IOPD participated in the 2018 French National Participation Conference
2018-03-05
Belgrade Municipal Election
2018-03-05
Switzerland has celebrated its first voting day of 2018
2018-03-05
The IOPD participates this week at the National Encounters of Participation in France
2018-02-26
Results of the vote of the Rennes Participatory Budget 2018
2018-02-26
The City Council of Barcelona promotes the participation of people with different cultural origins and backgrounds
2018-02-21
The IOPD has defended the democratic dimension of local governance at the 9th World Urban Forum
2018-02-15
Sri Lankan local elections, 2018
2018-02-15
Mayor Bill de Blasio Launches Participatory Budgeting in All NYC High Schools
2018-01-29
The IOPD has participated in the 4th UCLG Retreat and Campus
2018-01-19
The IOPD in the Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9)
2018-01-19
Side Event "Participatory Budgeting in Asian Cities: A Pathway towards Achieving the New Urban Agenda approaches"
2017-11-30
Turin and Jalisco launch citizen participation platforms using CONSUL, the free software from Madrid
2017-11-29
Report from the PB Scotland Conference 2017
2017-11-29
Scotland: Community Choices Budgeting Framework for the operation of the 1% target for Local Authorities
2017-11-27
Danish local elections, 2017
2017-11-27
International Forum
2017-11-24
The IOPD endorse the Manifesto for transformative social innovation
2017-11-15
Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey: 61.6% yes, 38.4% no
2017-11-10
United States elections, November 7 2017
2017-11-06
Sicilian regional election, 2017
2017-11-02
Córdoba ratified as a municipality that will coordinate the IOPD in Argentina
2017-10-31
Macedonia holds local polls runoff
2017-10-27
2017 Kosovo Local Elections
2017-10-23
Referendum in the regions of Lombardy and the Veneto
2017-10-19
Meeting between the IOPD Secretary General and the IOPD Africa Coordinator
2017-10-18
Penang organizes the Asia-Pacific Conference on Localising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2017-10-16
Lower Saxony state election, 2017
2017-10-16
Estonian municipal council election 2017
2017-10-09
Luxembourg communal elections, 2017
2017-10-02
Geneva lowers threshold for popular votes
2017-10-02
Popular vote in Switzerland of September 24, 2017
2017-10-02
Portuguese local elections, 2017
2017-09-19
Participatory budget of Paris: nearly 500 projects submitted to the vote of the Parisians
2017-09-18
The IOPD has participated in the final Transit Conference
2017-09-12
Cascais wins the the GIFT Public Participation in Fiscal Policy and Budget Making Award for his Participatory Budgeting
2017-08-01
17th IOPD Conference
2017-07-11
The OECD launch an online public consultation for its Recommendation of the Council on Open Government
2017-07-10
The IOPD participated in the Festival of the Participation of L'Aquila 2017
2017-07-10
The IOPD participated in the XII Metropolis World Congress
2017-07-10
International Training Session on Participatory Budgeting - Dakar 2017
2017-07-10
Signing of Agreement between UCLG-Afrique, Enda Ecopop, IOPD Africa and Assoal/ School of Governance and the Inter-African Alliance of the Participatory Budgeting
2017-07-05
Publication of the book "Feminisms for Participation"
2017-06-24
The City of La Paz won the 11th IOPD Award
2017-06-18
The city of Barcelona has been chosen to host the 18th IOPD Conference
2017-06-12
Italian local elections, 2017
2017-06-06
Cambodian communal elections, 2017
2017-05-31
New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in May 2017
2017-05-22
Federal voting of May 21 2017 in Switzerland
2017-05-22
Referendums in Swiss cantons on 21 May
2017-05-17
Nepal held its first local elections in 20 years
2017-05-17
L'Aquila (Italy) will host the second edition of the Festival of participation from 6 to 9 July
2017-05-15
North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2017
2017-05-15
West Bank 2017 municipal election
2017-05-08
Results of Chicago's 49th Ward Participatory Budgeting Initiative 2017 Announced
2017-05-08
Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2017
2017-05-08
2017 United Kingdom Local Elections
2017-05-03
City of Vernon launches new engagement website, participatory budget for residents
2017-05-02
New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in April 2017
2017-04-19
IOPD 11th Award Finalists
2017-04-18
Finnish municipal elections, 2017
2017-03-20
IOPD: mapping Citizen Participation worldwide
2017-03-20
The Barcelona City Council presents its proposal for a Regulation of Citizen Participation
2017-03-13
World Forum for Democracy 2017: call for lab submissions
2017-03-02
More than 212,000 people participate in the first citizen vote in Madrid
2017-02-27
Andalusian meeting about Democracy and Participatory Budgeting 2017
2017-02-24
The IOPD has participated in the UCLG 2017 Retreat
2017-02-22
New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in February 2017
2017-02-06
Six cities in the metropolitan area to use the decicim.barcelona software
2017-02-02
Candidacies submitted to the 11th IOPD Distinction
2017-01-24
Madrid inhabitants can decide which projects will be financed with the 100 million euros of the public budget 2018
2017-01-24
Madrid starts a citizen consultation about pedestrianization of Gran Vía
2016-12-30
The IODP has attended the Habitat 3 Conference
2016-12-29
The IODP has attended the Bogota Summit of Local Leaders
2016-11-04
Statement on the detention of the mayors of Diyarbakir
2016-10-20
Participatory planning, social inclusion and rights to cities:
2016-10-17
IOPD activities in Habitat 3
2016-10-11
Learning Forum Local finance, Inclusive governance and participatory budgeting
2016-09-12
International PB Conference
2016-09-12
Democracy Beyond Elections: Empowering Citizens, Strengthening Participation
2016-09-07
Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
2016-09-07
2016 IAP2 North American Conference
2016-09-05
Oslo Urban Arena
2016-09-05
Beyond the Vote: Democratic Innovation in Australia. Workshop
2016-07-25
International Day of Democracy conference to focus on democratic politics
2016-07-21
Bachir Kanouté participates in the 6th World Human Rights Cities Forum 2016 in Gwangju, Republic of Korea
2016-07-11
CeDEM Asia 2016
2016-07-07
The 4th International Open Data Conference
2016-07-07
6th UCLG ASPAC Congress
2016-07-07
Festival della Partecipazione: Participation Festival
2016-07-04
7th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
2016-06-17
The Presidency and the Secretary General of the IOPD meet to coordinate the work period 2016-2017
2016-06-16
Release of the report on the consultation on reducing Montrealers’ dependence on fossil energies
2016-05-26
The City of Montreal elected as the new president of the IOPD for the period 2016 -2017
2016-05-11
Habit III Conference
2016-05-11
5th UCLG Congress: WORLD SUMMIT OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEADERS
2016-05-11
World Forum for Democracy
2016-05-11
DEMOCRATIC CITIES Commons technology and the right to a democratic city
2016-05-11
Open Government Partnership Global Summit
2016-05-09
10th Award “Best Practice in Citizen’s Participation” outcomes
2016-04-01
New members attached to the IOPD in March 2016
2016-03-31
Open Standards in Local Government workshop
2016-03-29
Network democracy and new forms of citizen participation
2016-03-29
Participatory Budgeting Conference
2016-03-29
Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016
2016-03-17
Dual EGOV 2016 and ePart 2016 conference
2016-03-17
Leapfrog Summer School
2016-03-14
The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2016 (TICTeC2016)
2016-03-10
Technical mission to prepare the 16th IOPD Conference
2016-02-16
Launch of the book ‘Designing public policy for co-production: Theory, practice and change'
2016-02-08
3rd International Conference on Democratic Governance in the Developing World
2016-01-18
TransparencyCamp Europe
2016-01-18
CEMR Congress 2016
2016-01-07
New members attached to the IOPD during 2015
2016-01-04
Letter of welcome from the new General Secretary
2015-12-07
A session on Participatory Budgeting was held at Africities Summit
2015-11-20
Seattle Launches Citywide Youth PB
2015-11-18
4th International Conference on Participatory Budgeting In North America
2015-11-18
16th IOPD Conference
2015-11-18
D-CENT Showcase and Opportunities for UK Digital Democracy
2015-11-17
Lemann Dialogues
2015-11-04
ICEDEG 2016 - 3rd International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment
2015-11-04
Mozilla Festival
2015-11-02
6th International Conference on e-Democracy
2015-10-16
Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Master Class
2015-10-13
The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) takes a Leading Role in International Research Partnership on Participation and Democracy”
2015-09-29
Participatory Budgeting processes start in 6 US cities
2015-09-23
CeDEM 2016: International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2016
2015-09-16
The Mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau visit the UCLG and IOPD offices
2015-09-07
Smart City Expo World Congress
2015-09-07
MONTRÉAL THEMATIC MEETING ON METROPOLITAN AREAS
2015-09-04
Official presentation of the 16th International Observatory of Participatory Democracy Conference
2015-09-03
2015 IAP2 North American Conference
2015-09-01
New IODP members adhered in August
2015-08-31
UCLG World Council
2015-08-31
United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015
2015-08-31
World Forum for Democracy
2015-08-31
Africities Summit
2015-08-21
UK Participatory National Conference
2015-07-15
ORU FOGAR General Assembly
2015-07-06
The city of Matola (Mozambique), elected as new presidency of the IOPD, and home of the 16th International Conference.
2015-06-12
Frontiers of Democracy 2015
2015-05-25
15th European Conference on eGovernment – ECEG 2015
2015-05-07
International Forum on Innovation and Metropolitan Governance
2015-04-27
Open Government Partnership Global Summit
2015-04-15
Cartagena Data Festival
2015-04-10
5th World Human Rights Cities Forum
2015-03-30
The municipality of Quart de Poblet wins the 9th IOPD Award
2015-03-10
IOPD Internal Meeting
2015-03-05
Democracy Conference 2015
2015-03-02
Annual assessment of the IOPD
2015-02-23
International Conference on Public Policy: T12P06 - Public policy and citizen involvement
2015-02-23
Swiss Summer School Democracy Studies
2015-02-23
Democracy: A Citizen perspective
2015-02-18
Open the period to choose the chair of the IOPD in 2016
2015-02-16
Democratic Sector Day (DSD)
2015-02-09
The Democratic Contribution of Participatory Budgeting by Prof Yves Cabannes
2015-02-06
II European Congress on Proximity, Participation and Citizenship
2015-02-04
U.S. Public Participation Playbook Open Beta
2015-02-04
Final FoP-conference in Stockholm 29 June – 1 July
2015-02-04
Preparatory Committee 2: 14-16 April 2015
2015-02-04
II Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Adequate Housing Monterrey, México
2015-02-04
Sabadell Smart Congress
2015-02-02
3rd INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA CONFERENCE 2015
2015-01-29
15th IOPD Conference: Madrid 24 - 26 March, 2015
2015-01-29
15th Conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
2015-01-23
Connected Smart Cities
2015-01-23
World Social Forum Tunisia 2015
2015-01-23
5th Annual Urban Innovation Symposium: AuthentiCity
2015-01-19
Open Government Symposium
2015-01-16
Citizen University Annual National Conference
2015-01-16
Democracy and Participation in Latin America
2015-01-16
Crowdsourcing and Legislation Conference
2015-01-16
Digital Democracy in the EU
2015-01-16
The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015 (TICTeC2015)
2015-01-14
Participatory Budgeting Info Session in Seattle
2014-12-22
Nominations submitted to the 9th IOPD Distinction
2014-12-15
European conference on citizenship and twinning
2014-11-21
Contact democracy for the hyper-connected age
2014-11-18
Conference REsolutions Africa / Marrakesh 2014
2014-11-12
The City Innovation Summit
2014-10-28
1st EU Liquid Democracy Meetup
2014-10-28
Call of jury for the 9th Distinction for Best Practice in Citizen Participation
2014-10-27
Making Democracy Work…Better? The Internet as a Tool for Citizen Empowerment
2014-10-22
PB Cambridge Info Session
2014-10-20
Formal/Informal Institutions for Citizen Engagement for implementing the Post 2015 Development Agend
2014-10-17
Developing the space for a public conversation about democratic reform
2014-10-17
DLNI SALON – CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT – MEETING NEEDS AND DELIVERING TANGIBLE BENEFITS
2014-10-13
The Citizen and the Government: How They Connect
2014-10-10
International Meeting on the Right to the City
2014-10-09
Transformative Possibilities in the Global South
2014-10-09
Parisians have their say on city’s first €20m ‘participatory budget’
2014-10-07
SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS
2014-10-02
The IOPD Secretary- General meets with the Comptroller General of Mexico City
2014-09-29
Buntwani conference on Citizen Engagement
2014-09-25
25 Years of Participatory Budgeting: Analyzing the Resilience of a Traveling Innovation
2014-09-22
Launch of 2014 State of Participatory Democracy Report
2014-09-22
Launch of 2014 State of Participatory Democracy Report
2014-09-15
CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
2014-09-12
Open Government #WikiHack
2014-09-12
WINTER SCHOOL ON FEDERALISM AND GOVERNANCE
2014-09-10
IOPD attends Participedia meeting
2014-09-02
Open data, sustainable development goals and the data revolution
2014-09-01
6th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
2014-08-29
Open Policymaking Unconference BXL 2014
2014-08-04
The Open Government Tour - Winnipeg
2014-08-04
Open Government Tour 2014
2014-08-01
Conference “Citizen in my city, citizen in Europe Engagement & Participation”
2014-07-31
Civic Tech 4 Pack - Global Poplus, Middle America Open Gov, Hacking with Service Design, 20 Years
2014-07-30
5th UCLG ASPAC CONGRESS - TAIPEI 2014
2014-07-28
Government libraries as knowledge platforms for citizen engagement
2014-07-24
XI Metropolis World Congress
2014-07-21
CeDEM-Asia-2014
2014-06-30
Technology and democratic participation: friend or foe?
2014-06-25
WORLD FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY 2014
2014-06-20
Participate! Grass-roots democracy & development in Africa
2014-06-17
EDUCATION AND THE MAKING OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
2014-06-17
IOPD and Mercociudades have signed a collaboration agreement
2014-06-05
The city of Chengdu, China, has won the 8th IOPD Distinction "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
2014-05-31
Program 14th IOPD Conference
2014-05-30
Ceremony 8th IOPD Distinction
2014-05-29
INM Symposium - Developing Expertise in the Design of Participatory Tools: Professionalization and Diversification of the Public Participation Field
2014-05-19
Assessing the Participatory Turn and ‘New Democracy’ - Superdemocracy conference
2014-05-05
Big Data Week 3rd Edition
2014-04-30
TransparencyCamp 2014
2014-04-30
re:publica 2014
2014-04-23
Smarter Cities 2014
2014-04-23
5th Annual Cities Summit Tel Aviv
2014-04-23
Participatory Budgeting Project Wins 1st Brown Democracy Medal from Penn State
2014-04-16
14th IOPD Conference
2014-04-15
Book talk with the author of: Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner
2014-03-31
The IOPD present at the Kyoto Smart City Expo
2014-03-31
The Paris Conference: from Open Data to Open Gov
2014-03-28
The period for the choice of the Presidency of the IOPD during 2015 is open
2014-03-26
CBM Rapport presentation in Phillipines
2014-03-25
Kyoto SMART CITY EXPO
2014-03-25
CeDEM14 International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2014
2014-03-25
CES Events programme at Worl Urban Forum
2014-02-18
Digitial Citizens: How Feedback Loops can improve governance on everything from potholes to voting
2014-01-31
The Seventh Session of The World Urban Forum
2014-01-29
IAP2 North American Conference
2014-01-29
Involve at 10: visions of democracy
2014-01-29
3rd International Conference on Participatory Budgeting
2014-01-21
Reinventing Europe through local initiatives
2014-01-17
Open Government - public meeting, Kitchener-Waterloo
2014-01-16
P2Pvalue: Collaborative Production Online
2014-01-15
“Open City”, A New Cycle of Lectures in the Barcelona Debate
2014-01-10
DATA DAYS 2014
2014-01-10
Participatory and Deliberative Democracy conference
2014-01-09
Participatory Budgeting Network, London, Jan 27th 2014
2014-01-09
Presentation of ODIS report 2014
2014-01-09
Open Culture: Participatory Practices in Art & Science 16-25 May 2014, Toronto
2014-01-08
INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA HACKATHON
2013-12-19
Introducing Participedia
2013-11-27
3th International Congress of Educating Cities in 2014
2013-11-15
New Voices and Civic Technology: A Micro-Unconference
2013-11-15
International Conference on citizen participation in the budgeting and management of local and regional affairs in Africa
2013-11-14
Comittee on Participatory budgeting in the City of VIC
2013-11-05
WORLD FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY 2013
2013-11-04
SMART CITY EXPO: WORLD CONGRESS
2013-10-29
Open Government Partnership Annual Summit in London
2013-09-12
How Participatory Budgeting became normal practice on the NYC Council
2013-09-12
San Francisco To Test Online Participatory Budgeting
2013-08-21
World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders and 4th UCLG Congress "Imagining Society, Building Democracy"
2013-08-21
Workshops and debates on the latest developments in Participatory Budgeting(PB) in the UK
2013-05-07
Participatory Budgeting in NYC: Thinking Critically and Looking Forward
2013-04-23
Vallejo (California) became the first U.S. municipality to fully adopt participatory budgeting.
2013-02-11
Building a Democratic City. 2nd Conference on Participatory Budgeting in US and Canada
2012-12-14
Conference for E-democracy and Open Government - Call for papers
2012-11-26
The Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Transparency (BTAP) has recently launched its website
2012-11-12
Fiji: Participatory democracy in action – a constitution of the people
2012-10-31
Call for papers- 1st World Summit of Local Governments for the Right to the City
2012-07-30
Sixth edition of the Africities Summit “Building Africa starting from its territories"
