Enrollments open for the Digital Participation Online Training!

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Enrollments are now open for the Digital Participation Online Training!

Watch our launch event on October 17 to hear experts on digital participation giving it a walkthrough. You can also view the slide deck of the presentation. Interpretation in Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, and French are also available.

We are witnessing a wave of robust digital participation programs across the globe, from Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan to Chile and more, which unlock public engagement in participatory policymaking, budgeting and decision-making digitally

A successful digital participation program depends on selecting the right platform and tools and employing the best strategies. 

We launched the Digital Participation Online Training, a free and self-paced training that covers everything you need to know to navigate these factors and to launch or improve your digital participation program.

Who is this training for? 

  • Government officials, policymakers and staff who run or want to run participatory programs with digital platforms

  • Civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations staff who want to promote, start or expand public participation in their communities through digital platforms

  • Advocates, innovators, community leaders and political party officials and who want to promote democratic practices through digital participation

  • Anyone interested about learning digital participation

What will you learn?

  • Approaches and strategies for public participation using digital platforms

  • Understanding the types of digital platforms using the Digital Participation Platform Ratings

  • Selecting a digital platform and developing an initial proposal for running a digital participation program

How will you learn?

The training is free and self-paced and is hosted on the new People Powered Learning Management system that features instructional videos, gamification, quizzes and assignments, and a dedicated discussion forum for you to learn from peers.

Bonus: we offer additional instructional support by providing personalized feedback on your submitted assignments and reflections till December. Enroll now to get this unique opportunity!

What to do:

Program partner

The course was developed in collaboration with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation: Global Innovation Hub.