Quick Overview

Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era is a project funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) and implemented by Future Worlds Center. There are five partner/liaison contact points, one in each of the five region who are supporting the regional activities.

The project invites everyone on the globe, individual , initiative or organization who is interested in the vision, to approach Future Worlds Center and explore way to collaborate.

Key objective

The key objective is to increase youth participation in democratic governance by empowering young people from across the world to invent and propose new, innovative and concrete actions. More than 1000 young people will contribute with ideas face-to-face and virtually during five Co-Laboratories engaging ICT and structured democratic dialogue methodology. The process is designed to mobilize young people and to increase interaction among youth globally with the aim to advocate for and enable meaningful youth participation in democratic processes.

Problem Analysis

Despite low youth participation in political processes and elected institutions, young people participate in democratic life through other means, such as political movements, youth organizations, and ad-hoc community initiatives mostly on informal arenas. Their meaningful participation in these processes depends on the political, socio-economic and cultural context and requires both young people and youth organizations to have the opportunities and capacities for youth participation, as well as operate within an enabling environment for civil society and especially young people. The disengagement of young people in democratic processes is the long-term problem to be solved.

Global Scope

The initiative has a global scope.

It intends to involve more than 1000 young change makers from across the world in a global exercise to re-invent and redesign democracy in our digital era.

Key Players

	Funding Organization The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) is funding the initiative Parallel and spin off initiatives are funded through other programs
	Implementing Organization Future Worlds Center is a Cyprus NGO operating globally
	Regions The project is being implemented in five regions. The initiative in each region is called: European Initiative Australasia Initiative African Initiative Middle Eastern Initiative
	Core Participants and Shadow Participants There are 20-25 Core Participants per Region and >1000 Shadow Participants globally
	Three different types of Mentors Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors Mentors in Digital Communication Strategy and Policy Mentors in the Science of Dialogic Design
	Regional Coordinators
	Country Liaisons
	Project Endorsements Many individuals, authorities and orgnaizations are endorsing the project by placing it under their auspices