36 Voices Out of 3,600: What One Percent Participation Teaches About Digital Democracy
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Between December 2025 and February 2026, we ran an experiment. We opened a participatory platform — audierne2026.fr — and invited the 3,600 inhabitants of Audierne-Esquibien to co-write a municipal programme. Anonymous forms, public discussions on GitHub, full traceability from submission to integration.
36 citizens contributed. That's roughly 1%.