Turning Vision Into Scalable Action
In collaboration with leading technology partners, we pilot innovative tools that expand citizen participation and strengthen transparency. From Diputómetro, a platform for political data and news transparency, to Electa, a blockchain-based tool advancing voting transparency, these experiments help turn civic vision into practical, scalable solutions.
Past Projects
From early concepts to real-world implementation, our past projects showcase the Innovation Lab’s role in advancing meaningful solutions for the communities and partners we serve.
Electa
Developed by Stakwork, Electa enabled Bolivia’s only independent, AI-supported, citizen-led audit of the 2025 elections. In partnership with Cuidemos el Voto and its 60,000 volunteers, the platform supported a statistically rigorous rapid count of 1,000 polling stations with a margin of error below 3%, and helped document and escalate 148 verified electoral incidents, providing a credible transparency mechanism at a moment of deep institutional mistrust.
Stakwork partnered with Demo Lab for one specific component: they hired two graduates from Demo Lab’s Freedom Academy pilot, our FWD Tech & Freedom technology and coding bootcamps, to build the public-facing results website used by journalists and observers on election night. This component focused on the site’s front-end and back-end development, while all core monitoring, data collection, and field operations were fully led by Stakwork and Cuidemos el Voto. This collaboration demonstrated how civic technology, coupled with citizen mobilization, can meaningfully strengthen democratic transparency.
Diputómetro
Diputómetro is one of Demo Lab’s Innovation Lab flagship projects, a civic-tech experiment that turned Costa Rica’s congressional data into something people could actually use. For two years of operation, backed by four years of updated legislative data, the platform made bills, votes, and deputy behavior visible and understandable to the public. It reached over a million visitors who explored how Congress worked, while more than ten media outlets amplified its findings. From this work emerged the Open State Civic Parliament, where civil society actors used Diputómetro’s insights to draft and push citizen-focused reforms, contributing to two approved bills and the development of a Citizen Participation Bill. As a whole, Diputómetro showed how the Innovation Lab can turn democratic ideals into working tools that shift power toward informed, engaged citizens.