Well, that's it, unlike democracy our marathon is at an end. But if you still have appetite for more, don't despair - you can review today's events on iplayer or iplayer radio or the Democracy Day page. Thank you for staying with us - and goodbye.

Listen back to the BBC World Service debate on Islam and democracy, with Shaimaa Khalil chairing a live discussion involving Tariq Ramadan, Heba Raouf Ezzat and Shurooq Amin in London.

Arvind Gupta: Over-dependence on certain tools or platforms "can influence democracy, it's a worry". It gives some companies "a lot of control over our thinking".

Emma Mulqueeny on the "digital divide": "The divide for me is between digital life and real life - online is real, not a separate thing. Bullying, illegal practice is the same whether online or offline." That mental separation is more of an issue than access to technology, she says, because "lots of people are working on that [access]".

Rick Falkvinge (Sweden) warns that electoral voting on the internet at home is risky. There is a risk that a voter can come under pressure, from a spouse for example. "You need a physical space where the country ensures you have privacy - then go electronic."

Emma Mulqueeny of Rewired State, a digital innovation forum: "Young people are unbelievably political." She says electronic voting "makes a big difference to voter turnout".

Arvind Gupta (India): "Content is consumed better if it's in a language people are comfortable with. They're able to engage better, have a better debate." He says it would be good to develop more voice software for the many people who are illiterate in democracies like India.

Rick Falkvinge (Sweden Pirate Party): "A new generation is taking influence for granted, demanding to be listened to."

What about government surveillance on the web? Twitter's Vijaya Gadde says Twitter has filed a lawsuit against the US government, "but citizens also need to take a stand".

World Have Your Say BBC Democracy Day special is on now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gthtk

Do people only connect with like-minded people on the web? Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's manager of legal affairs and user rights, says "it's not just an echo chamber". In the Scottish referendum there were "vigorous debates online - millions of tweets".

Panel discussion: How much is the internet changing democracy?

Arvind Gupta, new media manager for Bharatiya Janata Party in India: "Listen, inform, engage - the listening part is very important, not just in the election campaign. Listening will have to be improved by politicians."

Rick Falkvinge of Sweden's Pirate Party: Internet is as big a change as the printing press was. And again, he says, "a small self-serving elite is trying to be the gatekeepers". "When the truth is democratised nobody has a monopoly on truth - it shatters old structures, and now they're defending themselves."

The democracy and technology debate is under way. Bill Thompson, co-host of World Service's Click programme, says you can't predict how the internet will affect even small things, like shopping - so much less a really complex thing such as democracy.

On the World Have Your Say Facebook page, external, readers continue to discuss Democracy and Islam. Sachin Laala writes: Democracy is meant for supreme harmony within humanity and moral boundaries. Ngetich Japheth writes: Individual's freedom is limitless but it comes with a consequence. By intruding other people's beliefs you have entered within their boundaries of freedom. Win me over to your beliefs by your words not by the sword and the gun. Paul Callow writes: I think Islam and a country that has personal freedoms and democracy is not a good match. Yet millions of muslims want to live in the free west where they know we have freedoms etc and that confuses me.

"Who needs democracy anyway?" That's what people around the world discussed with Chilean author Marta Lagos on our @viabbc Twitter Q&A this afternoon. A flavour of the conversation here:, external

Coming up at 18:00 GMT you can follow the BBC's Democracy and Technology debate - which will be live in the Radio Theatre.

Here are some photos you sent in of democracy in action this month:

Image source, Esther Lenthall

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Image source, joseph doe

Earlier in the day Anas Altikriti, chairman of the Muslim Association of Britain and president of the Cordoba Foundation, a think tank focusing on Islamic issues, took part in a multilingual discussion with our audiences about whether democracy has failed the Arab world. Catch up on the conversation here, external.