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That's a wrap on 2025!

That's a wrap on 2025!

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Closing the Digital Divide

Closing the Digital Divide

An interview with citizen participation expert Adrià Duarte (UCLG), exploring how cities can use digital tools to strengthen local democracy, and put human rights at the centre of digital transformation.
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Global State of Democracy 2025

Global State of Democracy 2025

Democracy on the move
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Digital Democracy - Call for Content

Digital Democracy - Call for Content

The Transformative Force of Digital Democracies
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e-sabha app

e-sabha app

Connecting Communities with Local Authorities and Government Agencies on a Single Platform.
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C6 Finland - Finnish Alliance model

C6 Finland - Finnish Alliance model

A bold new experiment in multilevel collaboration
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Friends and Neighbours - a community nature project
Cape Town, South Africa

Friends and Neighbours - a community nature project

The project aims to reconnect people with nature, build social capital and maintain and enhance ecosystem services.
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Institutional capacity building for the metropolitan management in Colima
Colima, Mexico

Institutional capacity building for the metropolitan management in Colima

This project helped implement a strategic plan for reducing fragmentation and spatial disparities, and increasing local capacity building
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Progressive procurement: the policy and practice of Manchester City Council
Manchester, United Kingdom

Progressive procurement: the policy and practice of Manchester City Council

The city of Manchester focuses its spending power to lock wealth into the local economy.
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Digital transformation of public procedures
Cordoba, Argentina

Digital transformation of public procedures

An e-government reform to improve municipal services.
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Forbidden Culture Week
Malmö, Sweden

Forbidden Culture Week

Celebrating artistic freedom that has at some time, somewhere and for some reason been censored or banned.
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Linköping Carbon Neutral 2025
Linköping, Sweden

Linköping Carbon Neutral 2025

In 2011 the Municipal Council adopted its long-term climate goal to make Linköping a carbon-neutral community by 2025.
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Hazhi Hassan
Munich, Germany

Hazhi Hassan

Individual | Student
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Anne Schmidt
Berlin, Germany

Anne Schmidt

Individual | Architect, urban designer, researcher
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Philipp Wilimzig
Bad Belzig, Germany

Philipp Wilimzig

Individual | Managing Director
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Hanitra RASAMISON
Antananarivo, Madagascar

Hanitra RASAMISON

Individual
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Berlin, Germany

Danielle Kerrigan

Individual | Research Assistant
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Nyabayo Douglas Ongori
Nairobi, Kenya

Nyabayo Douglas Ongori

Individual | Urban Planner
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