mVoting & Imagine Seoul (formerly Democracy Seoul) — Digital Civic Participation

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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.

Live 📅 since 2013
Evidence📊 Independentgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ Seoul Solution (authority)Official policy-archive description and June 2016 usage figures for mVoting.
↗ Participedia (academic)Independent case documentation corroborating the June 2016 figures.
↗ Mic (press)Press coverage with matching usage figures.
↗ Seoul Metropolitan Government (authority)Official account of Democracy Seoul's Oct 2017 launch and cumulative suggestion/policy counts.
↗ Hankyung (press)Dec 2022 renaming of Democracy Seoul to Imagine Seoul (상상대로 서울).
📎 Cite this project

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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