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.
Legislative Theater
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Participation Playbook
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to ope...
District Builder
DistrictBuilder puts the power of drawing electoral maps in the hands of the people. Redistricting can be a transparent process that represents communities fairly and prevents gerrymandering.
Colab.re
Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.
The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
Purpoz
Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)
Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participa...
ONTRaC Learning Management System
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network
Framework for Digitally enabled citizen-led participatory processes
A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.
actNOW
A public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement. Appears to still be under development.
PolicyEngine
Compute the impact of public policy
CiviCue
CiviCue is a decentralized autonomous civic media platform equipped with blockchain civic tech that aims to disrupt existing media landscape by serving as a public good collectively owned and managed...
Smart City-Strategie Berlin
Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin
Urbanpinion
Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, rec...
La Constitución es Nuestra
Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
Citizen Helpdesk
The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.
Center for Policy Alternatives
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in S...
Budget Simulator for Pilot United Territorial Communities
A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.
Join Together
Digital tools for trade unions
Demokratiefabrik
The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
Airbnb.org
Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.
People Powered
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
Column
Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.
inCitu
We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' fe...
Healthier Democracies Case Studies
Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.
Nesta Democracy Pioneers
Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.
co:census courses
Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement
#TacticalVote (formerly Tactical2017)
Tactical voting against the Tories.
Abierto al publico
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
2020 Political Atlas
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
1Degree
Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources
Delib Dialogue
Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.
ACCESS NYC
Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.
ActiVote
A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.
Guide to Digital Participation Platforms
When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results
Responsive Policy Project
Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by c...
민주주의 서울 (Democracy Seoul)
Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform
Loomio Cooperative Limited
Parent company of the Loomio tool
Enspiral
Enspiral is a network of people working on stuff that matters. Our mission is to support people to do the same.
g0v
Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawin...
Cortico
Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue
Citizink
citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto
IBM Project Debater
Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
Discuto
Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Decidim Census
A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.
Legislative Theater with the Residents of Mulhouse, France
A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.
City as a Platform
Mapping solution for municipalities
Abre Alcaldías
Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America
Rahvaalgatus.ee
Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally