A key part of NUS Project 100 is about making our democracy more inclusive and representative. The first phase of this process involved identifying a set of principles that would underpin a better democracy. Having passed these principles at National Conference in April, phase two is about thinking through what they might look like in practice. A group of officers and staff from NUS and students’ unions have been working together to start this work. In order to inform and inspire their thinking, the group requested an overview of other democratic innovations. What follows is a list of examples of democratic decision making from outside the student movement and how they could be applied at NUS. Clearly it would be neither practical nor desirable for NUS to adopt all these ideas – indeed many of them are contradictory. However, they represent a genuine appetite to think beyond the processes we currently use and explore new means of building a 21st Century democracy for NUS.