---
title: Participedia
type: research
status: active
country: CA
website: https://participedia.net
logo: /assets/org-logos/participedia.jpg
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-01
  email: info@participedia.net
  source: https://participedia.net/about
summary: A global open-access database and research platform cataloguing thousands
  of participatory democracy cases, methods, and organisations from around the world.
concepts:
- citizens-assembly
- deliberative-democracy
- participatory-budgeting
- direct-democracy
- democracy
- meta-organisation
location:
  latitude: 49.2827
  longitude: -123.1207
  name: Vancouver, Canada
  precision: city
news_page: https://participediaproject.medium.com/
rss_feed: https://medium.com/feed/@participediaproject
events:
- date: '2009-09-01'
  title: Launched by Archon Fung (Harvard) and Mark Warren (UBC) as a crowdsourced
    wiki platform for democratic innovations
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_Fung
  quote: In September 2009, Fung launched Participedia, a website developed with Mark
    Warren of the University of British Columbia, aimed at strengthening democracy
    with its user-generated library of examples and methods of participatory governance
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  manual:
    checked: 2026-06-07
    date: 2026-01-06
    note: website loaded. News page points to https://participediaproject.medium.com/
      where latest is Jan 6, 2026 'Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports'
    url: https://participediaproject.medium.com/
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2026-01-05
    note: 'Latest post: Participedia Schools 2025 Summary Reports'
    url: https://participediaproject.medium.com/participedia-schools-2025-summary-reports-5f84ce0bd47f?source=rss-4e7f7d842e0a------2
  scrape:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2025-06-02
    note: Latest news page scraped
    url: https://participediaproject.medium.com/
last_checked: '2026-06-15'
---

Participedia is a collaborative academic platform hosted by the University of British Columbia and Harvard University. It functions as a living encyclopaedia of participatory democracy — cataloguing case studies, methods, and organisations from across the world with structured, comparable data.

For anyone researching what democratic innovations have actually been tried, where, and with what results, Participedia is one of the most comprehensive starting points available. The database covers citizens' assemblies, participatory budgeting, deliberative polls, community consultations, digital democracy experiments, and much more — with enough detail to understand both design and outcome.

The platform is open-access and contributions are welcome, making it a useful place to document new cases as well as research existing ones.

## Links

- Website: [participedia.net](https://participedia.net)

## See also

- [Citizens' Assembly](../concepts/citizens-assembly.md)
- [Direct Democracy](../concepts/direct-democracy.md)
- [Deliberative Democracy](../concepts/deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Participatory Budgeting](../concepts/participatory-budgeting.md)
- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Meta-Organisation](../concepts/meta-organisation.md)