Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Mapping

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Direct action
• Story tech

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism

Civil is building the new economy for journalism.

• The Tech
• Media
• Blockchain

The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers

• US Election 2020
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech for public challenges

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."

• Participatory budgeting

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Group communication tools

Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Voter assistance tech

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• Courses
• Playbooks and design principles
• Innovation teams and labs

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Democracies Online Newswire since 1998

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Since 1924, The Duke Endowment has worked to help people and strengthen communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Auf meinBerlin finden Sie eine Übersicht über Projekte der Berliner Verwaltung sowie zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, sich aktiv an der Gestaltung unserer Stadt zu beteiligen

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

• census

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Learn about civic tech

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The world’s platform for change

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturer delivering clean, quiet transportation for all.

• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Emerging tech