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.
Crowdbrite
Open planning platform
Peoples' Tech Assemblies
NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech
Participate.Online + Envirolytical
A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues
Decide Madrid
Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.
BiPart
Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making
Nordic Path
A public engagement project around air quality
Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform
Stop Guessing. Start Community Mapping.
Smarticipatie
Dutch participatory engagement company
All Our Ideas
All Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.
Make.org
Express your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete acti...
Débatlab
French association of consultation professionals for an innovative public debate.
OmaStadi
Helsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting
Particitiz
Participatory process facilitators and partners
Engaged Cities Award
We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.
빠띠 시민대화는 질문과 대화로 (Parti Citizens' Dialogue)
Party Citizen Dialogue is a citizen dialogue platform that creates change through questions and conversations.
Abre Tu Muncipio
Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.
Civic Action Teams
Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities
Kijiji Yeetu
Kijiji Yeetu is a smart village platform that offers a unique ecosystem for activating our villages’ resources, knowledge, inspiration into viable development opportunities in 47 counties in Kenya, Ea...
adhocracy+
Makes digital democracy easy - for everyone no matter where.
Cleveland Park Listserv
Cleveland Park Listserv
World e-parliament report
This latest edition of the World e-Parliament Report follows up on previous findings and identifies major steps forward in how parliaments are using information and communication technologies (ICT) to...
Government Digital Service UK
We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.
Barcelona Digital City
The priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformatio...
GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog
The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
SPILNO
Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions
Democracy Club (UK)
Democracy needs an upgrade
OurSay
Intelligence driving public sector performance
Parliament Watch (Uganda)
Parliament Watch is a non-profit organization that monitors and reports on the work of the Parliament of Uganda
Vot Diaspora
Vot Diaspora este o platformă dezvoltată de Code for Romania care oferă rapid românilor din Diaspora informații despre cum pot vota la alegerile din anul 2024.
RaRaRe
A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa
Legislation.gov.uk
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.
Vital Communities – VT and NH
Visit the post for more.
Code for France
Put technology at the service of the general interest
Protect the Vote
Protect the Vote is a national coalition of nonpartisan organizations focused on making sure everyone can vote. They have great volunteer opportunities across the country.
The Center for Election Science
We hope these tools help you out in running your next election
Desafios SP
Municipal open challenge program
Your Fucking Polling Place
A parodical -- but functional -- polling place lookup site modeled on 'What's for fucking dinner?'
Register to vote on Snapchat
Register to vote on Snapchat
CouncilStat NYC
A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents
Ethelo Citizen Budget
This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various cat...
Commonplace
Boost understanding, get consensus and deliver projects that people love with our all-in-one citizen engagement platform.
DemocraciaOS
DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.
Networked European Democracy
To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.
United Kingdom Digital Service Standard
The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.
New York City Volunteer Language Bank
a case study by GovLab
Vooter
Consultez différemment.
Civil Kapocs
segítünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings
Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy
Janaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.
News Nerdery
This Slack has over 1,300 members of the journalism-tech community from around the world, who chat in over 40 topical and geographic channels.
Participacio Ciutadana
Perquè la democràcia es fa entre tots i totes.