Engagement tech
Perhaps the core premise of civic tech is that it can improve civic engagement. Whether in concert with formal governmental bodies or independent of them, civic tech promises to help citizens (in the Latin sense, of the city) engage with one another to share power in the pursuit of building just societies.
Recommended reading:
- A collection of case studies demonstrating where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens
- The Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit is an excellent collection of guides and resources for equitably engaging communities in order to share power.
Suffrago
Building the next generation of market research and polling through contextualised insights that fuel decision making.
Nexus Politics
The Operating System for Digital Democracy
Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment
These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.
Framework for Meaningful Engagement
The updated FME 2.0 offers very practical suggestions on how to engage civil society and affected communities in AI development to support platforms and AI developers in creating rights-based products...
Sociocracy For All
We help organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn sociocracy — a decentralized way of organizing that makes decision-making more equitable, efficient, and transparent.
The Common News
The Common makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.
Facilitation in the AI Era
A Community Roadmap for Technologies to Support Practitioners
Decidim Public Institutions Committee
This institutional alliance reinforces the commitment to a democratic, public, transparent and collaborative digital infrastructure, at a time when various indicators warn of a regression in democrati...
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Open Space Sandbox
Like a city-building game—but real life. Open Space Sandbox turns play into planning data
Awesome Polis
Community list of awesome projects, apps, tools and more related to Polis.
Breathe-in
Through the ‘Breathe-in’ project, part of the Breathe Cities Programme, teenagers are influencing mobility decisions that will affect their futures.
Church Street's NationBuilder
In just five months, 850+ residents engaged as Westminster’s Church Street team shifted from spreadsheets to real-time, data-driven engagement to build affordable homes in the community.
Interoperable Deliberative Tools (IDT) Cohort
The mission of this research area is to make today’s collective intelligence tools more open, modular, and interoperable, laying the groundwork for a capture-resistant ecosystem of deliberative toolin...
How do Civic Tech platforms work together?
Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability
People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement
Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust bet...
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Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE)
Le Conseil économique, social et environnemental conseille le Gouvernement et le Parlement. Il représente les organisations de la société civile et associe les citoyens à la vie démocratique.
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms
Online discourse faces challenges in facilitating substantive and productive political conversations. Recent technologies have explored the potential of generative AI to promote civil discourse, encou...
zKe: Youth Voices
This initiative, dubbed ‘zKe’ is a platform for sustained and meaningful national engagement by and for Kenya’s youth, offering online and offline spaces where young people can actively engage in poli...
UrbanistAI workshops in Panama City
Participants worked in mixed-age groups, using UrbanistAI to redesign public spaces based on photographs they had taken themselves.
Demokrasia Bis (the Mobile Citizens Lab)
The Mobile Citizens Lab will travel to various communities across the country, providing young people, who are often excluded from national dialogues, the tools and information they need to engage in...
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
The most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.
CONSUL Civic Assistant
For this project we will be working in a consortium of European partners on an AI-powered Civic Assistant to integrate in the CONSUL DEMOCRACY code base.
A Framework and Self Assessment Workbook, Public Voices in AI
This report and framework presents a conceptual framework and a practical workbook for including public voices in artificial intelligence (AI).
How does the public feel about AI analysing UK government consultation responses?
Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, in collaboration with the UK government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, has trialled an approach to involve the public in assessing AI tools...
Ignis
Grass-roots civic signaling for Neodemocracy
CrowdInsights
CrowdInsights offers a cloud-based SaaS solution for online community and stakeholder engagement and participation.
MISTO
AI-powered platform for Smart cities and corporations, enhancing safety, streamlining communication, and optimizing crisis and workflow management.
WhatsApp on Decidim
A Decidim WhatsApp chatbot feature that allows people without an email address and/or low connectivity to participate in Decidim instances
l'Observatoire citoyen des engagements municipaux
40 habitantes et habitants volontaires pour faire partie de l'Observatoire citoyen des engagements municipaux, ont évalué un par un, les 150 engagements de la mandature 2020-2026.
Budget Participatif Paris
Décider pour Paris
Budget Participatif, idées citoyennes, et consultations
Les idées citoyennes
Ce sont les idées, initiatives, projets que les Parisiennes et Parisiens peuvent proposer tout au long de l’année.
City consultations
Official consultations of Parisians
Comhairle
Accelerate and scale public participation in policy decision-making.
Kosovo Youth Connecting Project
Online consultation platform for youth project
CASA1000 Community Support Project
Online Platform for the World Bank funded Community Support Project
Demoxis
AI-powered civic engagement platform reconnecting people and power — one voice at a time.
LaSuite.coop
La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
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Public engagement hub [Parliaments]
This hub supports peer learning and knowledge exchange about public engagement with parliament.
Mapping Public Engagement in Parliaments across the world
The map of public engagement activities created (similar to this map showing parliaments’ access to academic research) will enable the International Parliament Engagement Network to foster lesson shar...
Digital Neighborhood Bulletin Boards
We're installing digital community bulletin boards on public sidewalks in San Francisco
ArcGIS Hub
ArcGIS Hub is an easy-to-configure community engagement platform that organizes people, data, and tools through information-driven initiatives.
DIPAS
Das erste medienbruchfreie digitale System zur Bürgerbeteiligung online und vor Ort. DIPAS entdecken DIPAS Repository
Deliberation.io
Facilitating large-scale, open dialogues between citizens to strengthen collective decision-making.
Waves
Demos is trialling AI-powered digital deliberation to strengthen trust in local government
STRONG Manoomin Collective
The STRONG Manoomin Collective is a tribally-driven research effort that aims to strengthen Ojibwe resilience by supporting development of scientific and environmental governance capacity.
New Belarus
New Belarus is a digital ecosystem created by Belarusians and for Belarusians, where we can be useful to each other, stay together wherever we are, and also learn to find and solve our national challe...
Fundacja Optimum Pareto
Racjonalny dyskurs publiczny jest możliwy
Swarmcheck
Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI
geo.pol.is
Public opinion infrastructure for cities