Projects - Communicating with the people

PlanningAlerts

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

place-based

The White House Office of Public Engagement

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

(Biden Administration) With a focus on making the White House inclusive and accessible to its citizens, the Office of Public Engagement is responsible for creating and coordinating direct dialogue between the Biden-Harris administration and the diverse American public.

Agora (France)

Paris, France

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

apps

New Ways Feed

South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

Common Measurements Tool

The Common Measurements Tool (CMT) is a survey instrument built specifically for the public sector that can be used across the full range of service areas, service channels, and client types. Its standardized methodology allows not just for effective performance measurement but also for direct comparisons between different organizations.

Paper: LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States | Scientific Data

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

YouTube

Canòdrom

Carrer Concepció Arenal 165 08027 Barcelona (Spain)

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

cities

Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings | Journal of Deliberative Democracy

Norway

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

LocalView

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

YouTube

Namma Mahiti Kendras

Bangalore

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

place-based

Custodianship in the Urban Commons

Boston, MA

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

public space

Gov UK Notify

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

GDS service for government users to notify constituents

Talk to Loop

The Hague, Netherlands

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

Column

Miami

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

Munipolis

Londynske namesti 886/4, Brno 639 00

Communication gateway for municipalities

HLÁŠENÍ ROZHLASU

Czechia

ŠEST komunikačních kanálů v jednom nástroji.

MetroQuest

Vancouver

MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

U-Report

Uganda

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

Where's my school bus?

Boston, MA

Our program offers real-time tracking of school buses through a mobile web app. We hope that — in a small way — this creates a better experience for parents and students.

Open Australia Foundation

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

Facebook Local Alerts

Menlo Park, California, United States

Allows local governments to notify residents with important information

Axon Vibe

Lucerne, Switzerland

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

Google Public Alerts

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

Google

Cicero

990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Legislative district matching and elected official data

Soofa

24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

public space

GovDelivery

Effective cloud communications tools are the key to reaching and engaging citizens - all while enhancing transparency and building trust.

Open.Media

1424 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

Granicus

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

Citywide

Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.

Notices from SeeClickFix

New Haven, CT

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

Nextdoor

Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community.

Front Porch Forum

Burlington, VT

Front Porch Forum is a free community-building service in Vermont.

Stay the Fuck Home dot com

The Self-Quarantine Manifesto

Peak Democracy

1900 Addison St, Berkeley, California 94704, United States

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

Councilmatic

United States of America (the)

Search, browse, subscribe and comment on your City Council bills, council members and events.

OurSay

Australia

Intelligence driving public sector performance

Displacement Alert

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United States

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement. With this information, community organizations, decision markers, and local residents can push back with outreach, education, organizing strategies, and policy change.

housing

FEMA Community Alerting Protocol

United States of America (the)

This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.

Veovo

Auckland, New Zealand

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.