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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.
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San Juan Islands geo.pol.is
geo.pol.is/us/wa/san-juan

San Juan Islands geo.pol.is

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

Seattle, WA
since 2025
Specific digital participation instances, Engagement tech
land, Polis
Rant & Rave
uplandsoftware.com/rantandrave

Rant & Rave

Capture customer and employee feedback in the moment to drive positive change throughout your organization.

401 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
Organize campaigns, The Tech, Advocacy tech
Rhetoric
treecompany.be/rhetoric

Rhetoric

impactvol, kwalitatief en respectvol online debat

Mortsel, Belgium
Engagement tech, Debate
Picture It
treecompany.be/picture-it

Picture It

Neem een foto en deel je verhaal

Mortsel, Belgium
Engagement tech, Surveys & polling
Chat it
treecompany.be/chat-it

Chat it

Met onze mobile first webapplicatie laat je burgers input geven door middel van een dialoog waarbij meerkeuze en vrije antwoorden afwisselen met beelden, geluid, … alsof je in een echte conversatie zi...

Mortsel, Belgium
Engagement tech, Surveys & polling, Ideation
Tell It
treecompany.be/tell-it

Tell It

Vertel je verhaal en kom tot een gemeenschappelijke kennisbasis!

Mortsel, Belgium
Narrative tech, Story tech, Engagement tech
Build it
treecompany.be/build-it-interactieve-simulatie

Build it

betrek burgers bij keuzes in de publieke ruimte, en simuleer de impact!

Mortsel, Belgium
Engagement tech, Policy simulators
Stemtesten
treecompany.be/stemtesten

Stemtesten

Door het invullen van een 25 tot 35-tal stellingen, ontdek je welke politieke partijen aansluiten bij jouw mening en welke er net ver van afstaan.

Mortsel, Belgium
since 2003
Matching views to votes, Engagement tech
Test it
treecompany.be/test-it

Test it

bevraag, betrek en informeer in één keer

Mortsel, Belgium
Surveys & polling, Engagement tech
Tree company
treecompany.be

Tree company

Innovatiebureau voor digitale democratie

Mortsel, Belgium
Engagement tech, Digital participation platforms, Participatory democracy
TICTeC 25
Hit Tine
hittine.org

Hit Tine

Faster, Safer, Secure and Trusted Community for Myanmar Citizens

Myanmar (Myăma) 🇲🇲
since 2022
Engagement tech, Civic forums, Pro bono and volunteer
apps
Citizen Dialog Kit
citizendialogkit.com

Citizen Dialog Kit

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien) 🇧🇪
since 2018
Surveys & polling, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy
place-based
Democracy Timeline Game
elect.in.th/game-timeline

Democracy Timeline Game

See how well you know Thai democracy

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭
Games and gamification, Engagement tech
Consult Evaluation: Scottish Government’s Non-surgical cosmetic procedures consultation
ai.gov.uk/docs/Scot_Gov_NSCP_Evaluation_Report.pdf

Consult Evaluation: Scottish Government’s Non-surgical cosmetic procedures consultation

"Consult was generally good at identifying the themes in a given consultation response."

10 Downing Street
since 2025
Evaluate impact, Artificial Intelligence, Participatory democracy
reports
Frankly
frankly.org

Frankly

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

The Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University
since 2025
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Tech for your meetings
Veeto
veeto.app

Veeto

Veeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.

San Francisco
Lobbying, Engagement tech, Parliamentary and legislative tech
SAAFE DelibTech
delibtech.com

SAAFE DelibTech

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Trustmarks
Crowdpolicy Innovation Management Platform
crowdpolicy.com/en/crowdpolicy-innovation-management-platform

Crowdpolicy Innovation Management Platform

The innovation management platform by Crowdpolicy helps organizations to run innovation programs with the right guidelines, organizational methods and advanced functions, tested in numerous implementa...

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45
Challenges, Open innovation, Govtech
Crowd_Ideabox
crowdpolicy.com/en/crowd_ideabox

Crowd_Ideabox

Crowd_Ideabox is a direct and easy way to submit, collect and evaluate ideas inside an organization.

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45
Ideation, Open innovation, Engagement tech
Crowdapps
hello.crowdapps.net/index

Crowdapps

Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45
Govtech, Bureaucracy tech, Connectivity
apps, city
PSi
psi.tech

PSi

Gain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.

London
since 2020
Engagement tech, Collective intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Agora Citizen Network
agoracitizen.network

Agora Citizen Network

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.

France 🇫🇷
since 2024
Social networks, Civic forums, Group decision making
Rarimo, European Union, youth
What Could BG Be
report.whatcouldbgbe.com

What Could BG Be

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

Bowling Green, Kentucky
since 2025
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Specific digital participation instances
Google, Sensemaker, reports
Sensemaker
jigsaw-code.github.io/sensemaking-tools

Sensemaker

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and i...

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2024
Engagement tech, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Google, Sensemaker, toolkits
Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies
oecd.org/en/publications/tackling-civic-participation-challenges-with-emerging-technologies_ec2ca9a2-en.html

Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France
since 2025
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Reports
reports
My Voice Counts
myvoicecounts.io

My Voice Counts

My Voice Counts is a civic tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified, issue based voting and civic support.

Delaware
since 2025
Engagement tech, Surveys & polling, Organize events
apps
Guía para el Desarrollo de Espacios Participativos
argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/aaip_guia-espacios_participativos.pdf

Guía para el Desarrollo de Espacios Participativos

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

Argentina 🇦🇷
since 2025
Learn about civic tech, Fieldwide resources, Participatory democracy
Argentina (federal government), guides
Colab
colab.com.br

Colab

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunida...

São Paulo
since 2013
Engagement tech, Digital participation platforms, Participatory democracy
apps, WhatsApp
Federal Balancing Act
us.abalancingact.com/federal-budget-simulator

Federal Balancing Act

An Interactive Budget Simulation

United States of America 🇺🇸
Budget explorers, Govtech, Engagement tech
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09988

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

since 2024
Peer-reviewed research, Learn about civic tech, Artificial Intelligence
Simply Stakeholders
simplystakeholders.com/platform

Simply Stakeholders

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relations...

since 2004
Community-building resources, Nonprofit tech, Internal communication and coordination
commercial
ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection
kirkensnodhjelp.no/en/about-nca/for-contractors/protechtion

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspir...

Oslo, Norway
since 2024
Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Digital peacebuilding, Engagement tech
Decidim
Council on Technology and Social Cohesion
techandsocialcohesion.org

Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2023
Partner networks and coalitions, Engagement tech, Design
ECHO
dembrane.com/en-US/products/echo

ECHO

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
since 2024
Engagement tech, Artificial Intelligence, Speech recognition
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
arxiv.org/abs/2503.01769v1

Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders

Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker

United States of America 🇺🇸
Artificial Intelligence, Digital peacebuilding, Generative AI
Israel Palestine, peace
Construyendo la Agenda de la IX Cumbre Global de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto en España
ogpspain2025.consider.it

Construyendo la Agenda de la IX Cumbre Global de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto en España

Building the Agenda for the 9th Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Spain on Consider.it

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Specific digital participation instances, Government transparency, Engagement tech
Mentimeter
mentimeter.com

Mentimeter

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

Tech for your meetings, Surveys & polling, Engagement tech
commercial
Zesumme Vereinfachen
zesumme-vereinfachen.lu/fr-FR

Zesumme Vereinfachen

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg) 🇱🇺
Participatory democracy, Engagement tech, Specific digital participation instances
Consult (GOV.UK)
ai.gov.uk/projects/consult

Consult (GOV.UK)

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

10 Downing Street
Communicating with the government, Engagement tech, Govtech
United Kingdom (government)
ThemeFinder
github.com/i-dot-ai/themefinder

ThemeFinder

ThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).

10 Downing Street
Artificial Intelligence, Engagement tech
کارزار (Karzar)
karzar.net

کارزار (Karzar)

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

Tehran
Petitions, Engagement tech, Advocacy tech
Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10109

Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA
Peer-reviewed research, Academia, Artificial Intelligence
Google
Consul Conference (Consulcon)
consuldemocracy.org/2024/06/consulcon25

Consul Conference (Consulcon)

Gran Canaria
Meet the others, Conferences, In-person meetings
Consul
OpenCouncil
opencouncil.gr

OpenCouncil

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷
Engagement tech, Podcasts, Civic data APIs
local, city, TikTok
Dembrane
dembrane.com

Dembrane

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
since 2023
Engagement tech, Artificial Intelligence, Participatory democracy
Fundación Platoniq
platoniq.net

Fundación Platoniq

The Platoniq Foundation designs digital participatory processes and facilitates innovative participation methodologies to help form more democratic societies and organizations, making use of open civi...

Barcelona
Participatory democracy, Civic and social impact companies, Engagement tech
People Powered
UrbanistAI
site.urbanistai.com

UrbanistAI

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

Europe
since 2023
Artificial Intelligence, Engagement tech, Urban planning
city, apps, Sustainable cities and communities
Dublin City Council Engage platform
engage.dublincity.ie

Dublin City Council Engage platform

Join the Engage platform to share your thoughts on Dublin City Council projects, policies and plans. A Go Vocal instance.

Dublin, Ireland
Participatory democracy, Specific digital participation instances, Engagement tech
sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/information-technology/digital-privacy/data-usage-protocols-public-comment/public-comment-history

San José Data Usage Protocols & Public Comment initiative

Public Comment period for emerging place-based tech deployed in San José

San Jose, California
Govtech, Engagement tech, Emerging tech
city
People Powered Decides
participate.peoplepowered.org

People Powered Decides

An annual participatory decision-making program where members vote on budgets, policies, and board selections

Specific digital participation instances, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy
Decidim
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