Civic literacy
An education in civics itself, independent of tech, is a necessary precursor to effectively designing and building civic tech. Too many founders jump into democracy and government contexts with a favorite tech solution despite near-total ignorance of those sectors, their histories, or their inner workings. The projects here address traditional civic literacy education, often with a more modern and digital approach.
Volby pro všechny
Helping people with a migration background connect to Czech politics
POLYSAS Election glossary
We provide explanations and background information on elections, voting rights and digital democracy ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide
The Keseb Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide is a digital resource hub offering key trends, frameworks, and strategic recommendations to advance democratic resilience and innovation.
European Democracy Shield
The European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent me...
WHY SHIT NOT WORKING
Councilmember Ossé's Instagram videos explain why NYC's problems don't go away
Athletes as Influencers
Student athletes and coaches are in a unique position as leaders to rise above the noise, elevate civic action, and reach a broad audience of voters on their campuses, communities, and beyond.
CivxNow
With 390+ partners, CivxNow is the nation’s largest cross-partisan coalition working to prioritize civic education in the United States.
#WirMachenWien
Wir setzen uns unabhängig von Parteistrukturen für konkrete Umgestaltung, Aufwertung oder Erhalt von öffentlichem Raum in Wien im Sinne von Klimaschutz, Gesundheit, aktiver Mobilität, Begrünung, Leben...
Starlight Stadium
Starlight Stadium spans four episodes that each tackle a different aspect of the human rights monitoring cycle.
Kid Governor®
The Connecticut Democracy Center's award-winning civic education program.
The Complete Patriot's Guide To...
The Complete Patriot’s Guide series unpacks American myths, icons, and traditions to reveal their civic DNA.
Pixi Bücher
You can't start early enough – that's why we have short Pixi books on the topics of privacy and transparency for kindergarten-age children.
ACY Learning Hub
E-learning Platform for Myanmar Youth, including Public Engagement courses on media literacy, digital safety, and news literacy.
Federalism Index
The Federalism Index Project began with a clear mission: to assist educators, state leaders, and ordinary citizens to better understand and appreciate the significance of federalism in the overall str...
Apathy is Boring
Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. Learn more
Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation
The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and informational trust, and reducing hyper-partisan affective polarizatio...
Civic Innovation Fund (CIF)
The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growi...
THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Ou...
Mapping Civic Education in Europe
Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.
What the Fed?
AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing
Educación Cívica & Liderazgo Juvenil
Generamos espacios para fortalecer la participación política y cívica de las juventudes
Tainan City Council Watchbot
Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.
America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map
Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive...
Poliquicks
Nonpartisan political education app.
MP Scorecard
Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.
Find out about local government in your area
As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police...
Exploradores da Cidadania
A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your terr...
MyPolis
Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, B...
Democracy Fitness
With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!
Public Comments Initiative
EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative sheds light on public commenting and how to engage effectively with federal rulemaking.
FOIA.Wiki
This is a free and collaborative resource on the United States federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Os 230
Quem representa os portugueses na Casa da Democracia?
Replacing the Refs
The Landscape of Election Denial in America
Apolitical Foundation Accelerator
The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.
Próxima Geração
A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portug...
The School for Everyday Democracy
This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four...
Engaged Athlete Fellowship
Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broad...
Civic Genius
Democracy Only Works When We Do
MobileCit
We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis
Who Represents Me?`
Rep lookup tool designed for students and increasing civic literacy
Civic Story
Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.
Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) citizen toolkit
The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant na...
Journal für politische Bildung
Politische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.
Trait d'Union Podcast
Vous ne comprenez rien à l’Europe ou à l’Union européenne ?
Democracy Decoded
Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center
ElecciónMP
Conoce todo sobre el proceso de elección del Fiscal General del Ministerio Público de Guatemala
Democracy Classroom
Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.
BVV-Planspiel
Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist e...
A Starting Point
A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani
The Roadmap to the Official Count in the 2022 Election
A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice