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 main outcomes.
Download the D-CENT ToolBox.
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 main outcomes.
Download the D-CENT ToolBox.
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.
Organised on the 23–28 of May 2016 in Madrid, the Democratic Cities – Commons technology and the right to a democratic city event joined close to 500 participants to talk, workshop, discuss and debate about network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation, and urban commons. The event was also the final one of the D-CENT project, showcasing our results, tools and research.
Interview with Francesca Bria from Nesta, as part of the Democratic Cities event 23-28 May, Madrid, Spain. Francesca is the EU Coordinator of the D-CENT project, the biggest European project on direct democracy and digital currencies.
D-CENT allows people to discuss and share content, engage in mass scale deliberation, collaborative policymaking, and voting. Learn more about our tools from 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 Roio of Dyne.org talks about his work on commons, trust, complementary currencies and Freecoin.
