During the course of 2012 and 2013 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) supported several participatory initiatives to engage Tunisian citizens in the historical drafting of the country’s new constitution.

The purpose of the DEMOS project was to enable civic participation in the debate about high-profile law proposals in the Buenos Aires Legislature in Argentina, using the DemocracyOS software of the Democracia en Red foundation. The web app used was demos.legislatura.gov.ar.

VouliWatch.gr (Vouli=Parliament in Greek) is a collaborative Internet project aimed at bridging the divide between citizens and Greek representatives. It of­fers Greek cit­i­zens the pos­si­bil­ity to ask pub­lic ques­tions to Greek MP’s and MEP’s, as well as well as crowd­sourc­ing cit­i­zen data for leg­is­la­tion.

In 2014 the City of Boston initiated “Youth Lead the Change,” the nation’s first participatory budgeting (PB) process focused exclusively on youth (1). Its goals included civic education and engagement, and the inclusion of youth voices that are typically marginalized from politics in the City’s capital planning process.