Impact Evidence
Digital democracy is built by strengthening those who make it possible.
DemocráTICa fosters a learning, collaboration, and advocacy ecosystem that supports organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop capacities, generate knowledge, and build collective responses to digital challenges that strengthen more open, participatory, and democratic societies.
+1000
participating organizations of the program
100
funded initiatives
624
trained people
327
interconnected organizations
A regional model of resilience and civic sustainability
Strengthening digital democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean is not a task for a single actor or a single mechanism. It requires funding that reaches those on the ground, training that builds lasting capacity, spaces for sharing experiences, and collective action that helps shape the region's future.
The purpose of this page is to summarize the path taken by DemocráTICa during its first year of implementation, reporting on the lessons learned and the impact achieved so far.
Repository of strengthened initiatives
Digital democracy is built from the ground up, where organizations and collectives face concrete challenges related to citizen participation, the defense of rights, and access to information. More than 100 of these organizations participated in the DemocráTICa mechanisms, strengthening their capacities and developing solutions to address these challenges. This repository brings together these experiences and offers a glimpse into the regional ecosystem that is currently driving digital democracy in Latin America.
Voices of the territory
Transformation processes can rarely be summarized in a single metric. Behind every project lie decisions, tensions, lessons learned, and challenges that help us better understand the reality of the region.
Through the podcast Digital Democracy in Action , organizations, activists, and experts share stories that show how collective responses are being built to address Latin America's digital challenges. Each episode offers a contextualized perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing our democracies today.
Episode 1: Digital Sovereignty
We explore what it means to stop “renting space” on external platforms and instead build your own digital home.
Episode 2: Safe Spaces
We explore how polarization, disinformation, and hate speech impact public debate in digital environments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Episode 3: Civic Innovation
We explore how to sustain public trust in a context marked by polarization and disinformation in Latin America.