mVoting & Imagine Seoul (formerly Democracy Seoul) — Digital Civic Participation
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Seoul's 2013 voting app let residents put questions to their own neighbourhood: 1.1 million voters, 4,404 proposals, 88% citizen-initiated. Its successor logged thousands of suggestions, dozens of which became policy.
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mVoting, Seoul's mobile civic-participation app launched in 2013, lets residents propose and vote on policy questions, including polls limited to specific neighbourhoods; by June 2016 it had drawn over 1.1 million voters across 4,404 proposals, 88% citizen-initiated. Its 2017 successor Democracy Seoul, renamed Imagine Seoul in 2022, has logged thousands of citizen suggestions, dozens turned into policy. Both remain active.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “mVoting & Imagine Seoul (formerly Democracy Seoul) — Digital Civic Participation” — Seoul, South Korea. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/seoul-mvoting/ (last verified 2026-07-21). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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