Why partner with openDemocracy?
openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We believe that there is an urgent need for a global culture of views and want to play our part in facilitating this global conversation and making it accessible to all.
Partnering with openDemocracy is a way of joining in and furthering our project of openness, investigation and public exchange about the world and the way in which we govern ourselves. If you are holding an event, such as a conference or a seminar, we can provide publicity ahead of it taking place, a specially curated landing page dedicated to the event (before or after it takes place), or a network of pages aimed at keeping the issues from your debate alive for a longer period of time.
openDemocracy also hosts debates through which a series of arguments on a particular topic can unfold. These are also hosted on a dedicated page on the site.
For all of these types of partnership openDemocracy provides a progressive and influential media platform - 200K unique visitors a month, and over 15K Facebook fans, and 13K Twitter followers. We are widely read by media, academic and policy audiences
We're interested in exploring possibilities with you, so feel free to contact our Publisher, Andrew Hyde on info@opendemocracy.net, even if your idea for a partnership does not quite fit within the categories described below.
If you are holding a conference or any other kind event you can partner with openDemocracy to further the impact of your event and to keep the issues alive after it has taken place. Partnerships can range from pre-event publicity (Band 1) to help boost the profile of your event through the openDemocracy media channels, to a dedicated landing page curated before, during or after a conference or an event (Band 2) to a long-lasting feature on the site with openDemocracy providing editorial consultation to keep the issues from that conference or event alive (Band 3). These bands of partnerships are not intended to be mutually exclusive - a partnership may start with at Band 1 (pre-event publicity) and move on to Bands 2 or 3 as the relationship develops.
Band 1 (Click through for examples and more details)
Publicity ahead of events
Band 2 (Click for more details)
Landing/blogging page dedicated to your conference or event, curated before, during or after it takes place
Band 3 (Click for more details)
Permanent oD-based feature page
Another type of partnership that we offer is a debate hosted on the openDemocracy website. A debate is a way of introducing an unfolding series of arguments focused on a particular subject area into the openDemocracy publishing stream.
A debate would typically consist of a series of 'lead and respond' articles published on a weekly basis:
- - An article led by an author who is an expert in the field, outlining an argument
- - The article would unfold over the course of that week to include responses to this lead argument from other experts in the field
- - The lead author would then answer the responses
The following week a new 'lead and respond' article on the subject would be published. As well as being published into the stream on www.opendemocracy.net the debate articles would be housed on a special landing page curated by openDemocracy. As with everything published in openDemocracy, these articles would also be open to comments from our readers.
A debate would have to be run by an editor. We are open to discuss different ideas, but we consider two different editorial models labelled Band 4 and Band 5. In Band 4 the partner appoints and funds an editor, who is responsible for commissioning and editing each lead article and the responses to it. openDemocracy would sign off on the project, provide publishing space and support as well general advice on developing the debate. In Band 5 openDemocracy would provide direct editorial input, which could involve editing articles that are commissioned by the partner or involvement in the commissioning process itself.
COST would vary depending upon on the duration of the project and the editorial services needed. Contact us at info@opendemocracy.net to discuss your ideas with us.
Other project possibilities
Read through our separate page on creating a self-funded editorially independent openDemocracy Section and contact us on on info@opendemocracy.net to discuss ideas
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openDemocracy charges for editorial projects and partnerships and this revenue helps towards the costs of maintaining and developing the site and its content, which we want to keep free to readers around the world.
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Our main publicity channels for promoting your conference, launch or debate to our worldwide audience of readers, policy-makers, activitsts, academics and journalists
BANNER ADVERTISING
Prominent banner on openDemocracy article pages
ENEWS ADVERTISING
Inclusion of 50 words in our daily email alerts, reach c. 26,000 subscribers
ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION
-openDemocracy Twitter feed (14,000 followers)
-Facebook (17,000 fans) – plus potential reach of 5.5 million friends of Facebook fans) -
COST - CONTACT info@opendemocracy.net for pricing
Click through to see the Tahrir Square Meme event series
at the UEL for an example of how Band 2 project could look.
We can offer you a page on the openDemocracy website dedicated to your event. With enough notice – ideally a month – this can be created beforehand as a focal point for your event, and include:
Dedicated page on the openDemocracy website, with introductory text and images.
Your event details, including conference programme, speakers’ biographies, sponsors listed
Your event included in the Daily Newsletter (ENEWS) for a week
Sideboxes of related content. These could profile the work of conference participants, advertise the activities of your department, link to related material, or embed your Twitter feed or Facebook page
An article that you publish introducing your event would be tagged to this page
Example: See Tahrir Square Meme Event Series
Click through to see the Shock and Awe partnership with the LSE
for an example of how a Band 3 project could look.
Band 3 is based around a specially curated page/s of the openDemocracy website dedicated to your event or project, created and managed by our publishing & editorial teams. This option adds to a basic page by enhancing the relevant debates and issues from your event with additional editorial work from our editorial team. openDemocracy offers editorial advice on commissioning, framing debates and bringing focus.
Dedicated page on the openDemocracy website, with introductory text and images.
Your article or short series of articles written/commissioned by you - published and tagged to this page
Your event/project details, including conference programme, speakers’ biographies, sponsors listed
Tagging relevant articles from the openDemocracy archive to add more value and further context and connections to your page
Your event included in the Daily Newsletter (ENEWS) for a week
Sideboxes of related content. These could profile the work of conference participants, advertise the activities of your department, link to related material, or embed your Twitter feed or Facebook page
Example: See the network of pages of Shock and Awe: One Hundred Years' of Ariel Bombing
How long would the project last? MINIMUM 3 MONTHS COMMITMENT
COST - Would vary, depending upon the intensity of the editorial and publishing work involved. Contact us on info@opendemocracy.net
Contact Us
Our publishing and editorial teams are always open to discuss new ideas, so feel free to contact us on info@opendemocracy.net
