http://participedia.net/ Participedia is an open global knowledge community for researchers and practitioners in the field of democratic innovation and public engagement. About Participedia Also available in: Deutsch <http://participedia.net/de/ueber-participedia> /Participedia/ harnesses the power of collaboration to respond to a recent global phenomenon: the rapid development of experiments in new forms of participatory politics and governance around the world. We live in a world in which citizens of most countries are asking for greater involvement in collective decisions. Many governments, non-governmental organizations, and even some corporations are responding by experimenting with ways to increase public participation. Hundreds of thousands of participatory processes occur each year in almost every country in the world. They are occurring in a wide variety of political and policy problems. And they often supplement and sometimes compete with more traditional forms of politics, such as representative democracy. Participedia responds to these developments by providing a low-cost, easy way for hundreds of researchers and practitioners from across the globe to catalogue and compare the performance of participatory political processes. *Practitioners, activists, government officials, and journalists* will benefit from Participedia's searchable database of cases, methods, and organizations, including knowledge about how well processes have worked for similar problems, under similar conditions. *Social scientists, policy analysts, democratic theorists, and other scholars* will benefit from access to a dynamic, diverse, and growing source of comparable qualitative and quantitative data. We encourage you to contribute information on case studies, methods and organizations. The more you participate, the more you will appreciate what this site has to offer. The Participedia Team >> <http://participedia.net/content/team> The initial vision for Participedia was developed by Archon Fung (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Mark E. Warren (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia), and is guided by an Executive Committee. This site was created by Drupal developers Affinity Bridge <http://affinitybridge.com> in partnership with the SIM Centre at Emily Carr <http://simcentre.ca>, with contributions from a wide range of collaborators. Find the full list of Executive Committee, web team and project collaborators here. >> <http://participedia.net/content/team> Partners >> <http://participedia.net/content/partners> Participedia reflects partnerships with people and organizations across the globe who share an interest in participatory politics and governance. Please contact us if you would like to discuss developing a partnership to support Participedia's global mission. View the full list of our current partners here <http://participedia.net/content/partners>. >> Generous support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) made possible the development of this beta version of Participedia. This funding was provided in the form of a Partnership Development Grant, for two years beginning April 2011. In 2012, The Bertelsmann Foundation <http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-B507EC83-B34BA45D/bst_en...> provided generous support for development of multi-language functionality. Bertelsmann's investment in creating a German-language interface that is fully integrated in the main website platform will allow us to create an infrastructure that makes it possible to add many more languages. Domains (.org and .com) generously provided by Intellitics, Inc <http://www.intellitics.com>.