This paper brings together eight essays from world-leading experts in deliberative democracy, civic technology, and AI governance. It covers areas such as the growing role of citizen deliberation, citizen's assemblies, the role of technology in democratic processes, government-citizen interactions, governance technology, and leveraging AI for meaningful civic engagement.

This report sets out the need for democratic innovations and digital participation tools to move beyond one-off pilots toward more embedded and inclusive systems of decision-making.

Dominic Kelly investigates the false promise of digital democracy.

New experiments are showing how digital technologies can play a critical role in engaging new groups of people, empowering citizens and forging a new relationship between cities and local residents, and parliamentarians and citizens.

As a political tool the internet is neither top down nor bottom up, argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of Matthew Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy. Although there are many other interesting questions scholars and commentators could be asking about the impact of the internet on society and culture, a lot of the debate...