Designing Open Democracy is an Australian-operated forum of process engineers, social architects, and philosophers exploring how technology, engineering, and the design of social systems can be applied to strengthen democracy at every level of society.
We are nonpartisan and do not presume any single democratic model or approach to be superior. We are agnostic about which system or approach — but not about whether it is genuinely trying to serve its people. That distinction lets us engage seriously with the full range of democratic traditions and ideas, including unconventional ones, without pretending all approaches are equally valuable.