A Europe-wide project developing the next generation of
open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct
democracy and economic empowerment.
Read our research and learn about the project pilots.
A Europe-wide project developing the next generation of
open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct
democracy and economic empowerment.
Read our research and learn about the project pilots.
Open authentication and distributed identity management
to grow and open source eco-system of citizen engagement tools
Own your data
to say no to surveillance and give back citizens control and ownership of data
Open source and open standards
to build and grow knowledge commons
Blockchain trust
to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and audible
Explore the large-scale pilots that D-CENT partners have been conducting, involving thousands of citizens across Europe in municipal decision-making, policy and budgeting processes.
Digital platform for participation of the City of Barcelona. It is a tool to build a democratic, open and transparent city by enhancing citizen participation in the definition and development of policies.
Participatory budgeting platform for the city of Reykjavik. The platform is a development from the Betri Reykjavik prioritisation and participation platform allowing citizens to submit ideas on how to spend a part of the city budget in their neighborhood.
Open consultation and direct democracy platform. Launched by the city of Madrid after the municipal elections, citizens are able to propose, debate, prioritize and implement policy for the city.
Notifications of municipal policy decisions. Using the municipal open API on town hall agendas, the tool allows citizens to sign up to be notified when decisions are made about issues that concern them.
Discover and read our research reports conducted by project partners about the theoretical background, social and political processes as well as technical standards for the ethical development and deployment of technologies for democracy.
How technology is being used to help facilitate direct democracy and citizen engagement? Francesca Bria from the Nesta UK Innovation lab is the coordinator of the European-wide D-CENT project. D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) develops next generation digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.
D-CENT is European-wide project developing the next generation digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. D-CENT allows people to discuss and share content, engage in mass scale deliberation, collaborative policymaking, and voting. Learn more about D-CENT tools from this interview with software developer Natalie Eskinazi, ThoughtWorks.
As part of the D-CENT project, Dyne.org has developed Freecoin, a set of free and open source tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. In this interview, Jaromil Rojo of Dyne.org talks about his work on commons, trust, complementary currencies and Freecoin.
Róbert Bjarnason from the Citizens Foundation (one of the D-CENT project partners) talks about the tools for democratic participation and participatory budgeting they have been developing and piloting in Iceland.
Interviewing Evgeny Morozov, is a historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, and Click Here.
Gemma Galdon Clavell is a Research Director at Ethicas & Research Consulting, a company working on the ethical, social and legal impact of data-intensive technologies.
