I am involved in two large data collection projects. The Participatory Budgeting Census and Participedia. I am also experimenting with using social media in crowd-sourcing information on e-participation software.

 

The first project currently focuses on mapping participatory budgeting in Brazil and aims in the future to extend the mapping globally.

 

The second project currently focuses on collecting qualitative case studies on a variety of democratic innovations and aims in the future to become the largest global repository of qualitative and quantiative data on democratic innovations.

 

The third project is exploratory, it started as a collection of cases of e-participation software, now is becoming one of the largest available curated census of e-participatory budgeting with more than 100 software categorized.

News 2024

 

The PB Brazilian Census online phase is completed

 

I directed the first summer school on RCT at Southampton University

 

We helped deploy the Participedia Summer School in Cape Town

 

[Phoenix update] The partners have completed the evaluation 8 of the 11 Territorial Commissions of Codesign activities

 

C-BEAR won the Pippa Norris prize

 

[Phoenix update] We have finished the codesign of the pre/post surveys for the 11 Phoenix pilots

 

I got a bit of funding to redo the Brazilian PB Census

 

News 2023

 

[Phoenix update] Territorial Commissions of Codesigns are ongoing in 11 locations across Europe

 

I have got a bit of funding to assist the UK PB Network

 

We completed the Citizens' Assembly in Southampton

 

We did the first (at least I think it is the first) door knocking experiment applied to promote participation in a CA

 

In the fall I am on Sabbatical between Morocco, Italy and the UK

 

Demoplay project completed, we have a new version of EMPAVILLE!

 

Follow-up blog post in dialogic form with Kyle Redman in Deliberative Democracy Journal

 

Supporting Bologna CA evaluation coordination

 

The blog I wrote with Tiago Peixoto on Sortition and Representation has reached more than 5000 visualizations