As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

• Civic literacy
• Matching views to votes
• Find your representatives

PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) aims to collaboratively build people's participation in and understanding of South Africa's budget and planning processes.

• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

Civic tech accelerator hosted by the Scottish government. If you’re an ambitious and innovative individual, team or company, CivTech is an outstanding opportunity

• Accelerators
• Challenges

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

• Good health and well-being

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Access social benefits

Our mission is to provide accessible information and tools to help citizens make informed decisions and participate in the democratic process.

• Matching views to votes
• Voter assistance tech

How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Digital transformation

An Instagram filter that reminds you not to get too close to wild animals as you take your photo

• animals
• Instagram

• Cameras

Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.

• France (national government)

• Govtech
• Consumer watchdogging

Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundational layers

GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.

• Foundational layers
• Cybersecurity

Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.

• students
• libraries

• General purpose open source tools
• Open knowledge

We’re building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale.

• Meet the others
• Engagement tech
• Nonprofit tech

We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for exploring the relationships between contemporary production activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.

• books
• city

• Urban planning

We are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives
• Investors

Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification
• Board games

Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.

• history

• Civic maps
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Curated definitions of key terms relevant to collective intelligence, democracy and governance.

• Learn about civic tech
• Democratic Innovations
• Glossaries

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Mair examines how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems

• books

• Books
• Political parties

We have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.

• People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies

This Library Note provides an overview of developments around citizens’ political engagement and participation through the internet.

• books

• Participatory democracy

They’re our neighbors, in-laws, and coworkers. Their story, along with the story of the social good that can result from citizen science, has largely been untold, until now.

• books

• Open science
• Citizen science

Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.

• books

• Participatory democracy

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

• books
• census

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Case of Computing

• books

we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies

We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democratic Innovations

newDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Democratic Innovations

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective

• books

• Fight disinformation

Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels.

• books

• Civic literacy

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016: “Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world

• books

• Citizen science

The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens.

• books
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Citizen Engagement

In Democracy 2.0, we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular.

• books

• Participatory democracy

This book offers conceptual frameworks, theoretical insights, and practical lessons for dealing with the problem

• books

Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource.

• books

• Civic data

Highlighting a wide range of topics including community inclusion, cultural innovation, and public safety, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, entrepreneurs, engineers, government officials, policymakers, academicians, ...

• books
• city

• Smart Cities and sensors

Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents.

• books
• city

• Smart Cities and sensors

In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Deliberation

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world.

• books

• Government transparency

Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.

• Open knowledge

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

• Google

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic teams at tech companies

CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.

• rural

• Voting and elections
• Get funding
• Election administration