Civic Tech Field Guide
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Platforms that invite citizens and residents to contribute their ideas, creativity, and perspectives to the governance process
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Innovationshauptplatz of the city of Linz
Linz, AustriaYou want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!
My City Challenge Oakland
Oakland, CaliforniaAn engagement program
Zencity Engage (formerly Civil Space)
British ColumbiaBring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.
Delib Dialogue
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHDialogue 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.
C3PLACES
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e TecnologiasUsing ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places
Discuto
Amtsgasse 13aOnline collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Cocoriko
58 Old Chelsea road, suite 101 Chelsea, Quebec J9B 0C9Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.
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TallinnEstonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally
Pauta Participativa
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazilinvites citizens to help set Parliament's agenda with a sophisticated form of ranked voting that allows them to express more nuanced preferences than traditional first-past-the-post systems
Ideascale
BerkeleyIdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, government, and education. Gather ideas and implement them.
ConsultVox
EuraTechnologies, 165, Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, FranceCo-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence
CityScope Champs-Élysée
Pavillon de l'Arsenal, boulevard Morland, Paris, FranceAn interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées
Change Research
San FranciscoChange Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win
Consul Democracy Foundation
AmsterdamCONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation is a new organisation whose mission is to manage and continuously develop the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL.
Mexico City Crowdsourcing a Constitution: case study
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoTo get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks
Social Pinpoint
Newcastle, NSWSocial Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.
Partecipa
Bologna, ItalyPartecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.
Bologna Neighborhood workshops
Bologna, ItalyCon i Laboratori potrai segnalare, creare e far votare proposte per il tuo quartiere: contattaci o vieni agli incontri, per lavorare insieme a tecnici del Comune di Bologna ed esperti di coprogettazione.
Your Priorities applies AI
Reykjavík, IcelandEmpowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence
Participation Factory
Prague, CzechiaParticipation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.
Wikilegis
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, BrazilLets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses
These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.
Place Speak
New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADAPlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.
Medialab Prado
Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid, SpainMedialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
coUrbanize
33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USAcoUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.
Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.
Immaginazione Civica
Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 BolognaThe Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods
Civis
MumbaiCivis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.
Argu
Argu, Maliebaan, Utrecht, NederlandBeslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.
Gabinete de Inovação
Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazilum laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros
Meet the Kiosks event
6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124, USAJoin Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.
Polco
Middleton, WIPolco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.
AppCivist
The CITRIS Invention LabAppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.
Participez Nanterre
Nanterre, FranceBienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative. A Decidim instance.
Fluicity
4 Rue du Caire, 75002 Paris, FranceFluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.
meinBerlin
BerlinAuf meinBerlin finden Sie eine Übersicht über Projekte der Berliner Verwaltung sowie zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, sich aktiv an der Gestaltung unserer Stadt zu beteiligen
Open Source Politics
Liberte Living-Lab, rue d'Alexandrie, Paris, FranceOpen Source Politics is a company that builds participatory democracy open source tools and hosts collective inteligence workshops for private or public stakeholders willing to engage in a public consultation or a participatory budgeting process.
ioby
540 President Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USAioby brings neighborhood projects to life, block by block.
Hello Lampost
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.
SEMA
The Innovation Village Kampala, Kampala, UgandaWe gather citizen voices to improve public services
Crowdgauge
Des Moines, Iowa, United StatesGauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd
The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
Participa Portugal
PortugalA maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal
Delib Suite
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHMakers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.
To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.
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