The CONSUL DEMOCRACY platform keeps being implemented in new and interesting places!

🇬🇷 The city of Xylokastro is piloting CONSUL in Greece, under the inspiring guidance of our Regional Partner @eellak.

https://xylokastro.consul.ellak.gr/

🇸🇴 In Bossaso, Somalia, the implementation came about through a collaboration between the @undp and Enreda Coop.

https://bandar-qasim.so/

🇦🇺 In Victoria state, Australia, the newDemocracy foundation supports civil society groups with tech tools.

https://yoursay.sasvic.org.au/

¡Mañana! Tomorrow!
Encuentro en linea: Mejorando Málaga!

🗣️ Tendremos dos presentaciones, una de Isabel Pascual Villamor del Ayuntamiento de Málaga y una de David Aurusa de Enreda!

💡 Nos contarán sobre el uso de la plataforma, sobre el presupuesto participativo en la ciudad y nos enseñará practicas buenas, exitos sino también retos que han surgido en cuanto a la implementacion de procesos participativos y incluir a todos los Malagueños.

🔗 Registración: https://lnkd.in/e2ENScNG

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗡𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!

🏟️ The CONSULCON26 is a three day conference about participatory democracy, digital partipation, (open source) technology, and everything in between.

👯 The conference is organized by the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation and open to anyone interested in the themes above and/or to join an ever-growing community.

📝 The deadline for the call for proposals is 30 April.

🔗 https://consuldemocracy.org/2025/12/consul-conference-2026-munich/

📅 𝙎𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙨!

✨ The CONSULCON2026 will be held on 15-17 September 2026 in Munich, Germany!

💪🏻 The City of München is an Ambassador Level sponsor of the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation and in that capacity is acting as the CONSULCON26's host.

📝 Join us as a regular participant or as a session organizer or speaker! CfP is open until 30 April.

🔗 Information about the conference, tickets and the open call can be found on the conference webpage: https://consuldemocracy.org/2025/12/consul-conference-2026-munich/

💙 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗟 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁-𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗬 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲. 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀!

🇪🇸 On 11 December we will be joined by Luis Rodriguez Vega and Fernando Peñin Ramírez of the Dirección General de Participación Ciudadana at Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Expect a deep dive into Madrid's participation project, and ample time for questions and answers.

📝 More information and registration: https://consuldemocracy.org/2025/11/consul-meet-up-decide-madrid/

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗟 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀.

1️⃣ Consequential participation projects carried out on urban development and social policy using Polls and Discussions modules.
2️⃣ The Province is a strong advocate of open source technologies.
3️⃣ Its special role is to address the unequal distribution of population, wealth as well as citizen engagement between Groningen city and smaller municipalities.

@provgroningen

Platform: https://stemvanprovinciegroningen.nl/
Story: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/use_cases/netherlands/groningen-province

Finally! How-to-videos for using the CONSUL DEMOCRACY platform!

↖️ Easier to access than often long documentation articles (yes, ours included), instruction videos are short, concrete and easy to follow visual manuals.

📊 The videos cover many aspects of the platform, ranging from creating simple polls to extensive multi-phase processes.

🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 All videos are English-spoken, but subtitled in English and Spanish, with German and other languages on the way!

https://consuldemocracy.org/2025/09/how-to-use-the-consul-democracy-platform-video-instructions/

CONSUL in Celje, Slovenia!

🏘️ Celje is Slovenia's third largest but not so large city: total population is 48.000 people.

👯 2025 was its first year of participatory budgeting]. More than 4% of residents participated.

✨ Public officials observe a tangible positive change in the relationships between the municipality and its citizens: people feel listened to.

Link to platform: https://celjepomoje.si/
Use case: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/use_cases/slovenia/celje

#digital #participation #publictrust #budgeting #slovenia

Yay, we've been nominated for the Open Source Award 2025! With our citizen participation platform, we're in the community voting stage – and we need your support 💪

👉 You have one week left to vote for us – the deadline is 25 September.

Our German partner organization Mehr Demokratie is taking the lead 🙏

https://open-source-wettbewerb.de/voting/consul-democracy/

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𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑧 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 #opensource 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚.

𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑-19 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐.

𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝐷𝐺 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒.

Story: https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/use_cases/spain/badajoz-province

Platform:
https://participa.dip-badajoz.es/budgets/2