Digital Peacebuilding Expo: Guide to Digital Participation Platforms (Featuring Matt Stempeck)

On March 13, the Digital Peacebuilding Community of Practice-led by the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), Search for Common Ground, the Toda Peace Institute, and Mercy Corps-and the Council on Technology and Social Cohesion hosted a digital peacebuilding expo, which featured a series of interactive, practical demonstrations and presentations of digital peacebuilding tools.
This session explored the Civic Tech Field Guide, the world’s largest collection of projects using technology for common good, to explore key insights of what works for digital participation platforms through the Guide to Digital Participation Platforms. Matt Stempeck, Founder of the Guide, provided an overview of promising approaches to designing and running digital platforms that facilitate deliberative processes and the most common challenges facing these efforts, while providing examples of key digital participation platforms from the matrix assembled by the Guide. The discussion also delved into promising or concerning trends-both present and in the future-around digital platforms that support deliberative processes, and implications for digital peacebuilders moving forward.