Projects - Engagement tech

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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.

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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.

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Citizen Dialog Kit

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

place-based

Democracy Timeline Game

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

See how well you know Thai democracy

Consult Evaluation: Scottish Government’s Non-surgical cosmetic procedures consultation

10 Downing Street

"Consult was generally good at identifying the themes in a given consultation response."

reports

Frankly

The Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

Veeto

San Francisco

Veeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.

SAAFE DelibTech

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

Crowdapps

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45

Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions

apps
city

Crowdpolicy Innovation Management Platform

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45

The innovation management platform by Crowdpolicy helps organizations to run innovation programs with the right guidelines, organizational methods and advanced functions, tested in numerous implementations with measured results.

Crowd_Ideabox

El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45

Crowd_Ideabox is a direct and easy way to submit, collect and evaluate ideas inside an organization.

SAAFE

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies

PSi

London

Gain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.

Agora Citizen Network

France

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.

What Could BG Be

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

Sensemaker

New York City

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion – turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.

Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

reports

Guía para el Desarrollo de Espacios Participativos

Argentina

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

Colab

São Paulo

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

apps

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

Federal Balancing Act

United States of America (the)

An Interactive Budget Simulation

Simply Stakeholders

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relationships.

commercial

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.

Decidim

Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

United States of America (the)

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

ECHO

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders

United States of America (the)

Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker

Construyendo la Agenda de la IX Cumbre Global de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto en España

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Building the Agenda for the 9th Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Spain on Consider.it

Mentimeter

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

commercial

Zesumme Vereinfachen

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

ThemeFinder

10 Downing Street

ThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).

Consult (Gov.UK)

10 Downing Street

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

United Kingdom (government)

کارزار (Karzar)

Tehran

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

Google

Consul Conference (Consulcon)

Gran Canaria

Consul

OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Fundación Platoniq

Barcelona, Spain

The Platoniq Foundation designs digital participatory processes and facilitates innovative participation methodologies to help form more democratic societies and organizations, making use of open civic technologies.

People Powered

UrbanistAI

Europe

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

Efalia Engage (Fluicity)

Lyon

Engagez activement votre communauté dans les processus décisionnels

San José Data Usage Protocols & Public Comment initiative

San Jose, California, USA

Public Comment period for emerging place-based tech deployed in San José

city

Dublin City Council Engage platform

Dublin, Ireland

Join the Engage platform to share your thoughts on Dublin City Council projects, policies and plans. A Go Vocal instance.

Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence

Barcelona, Spain

Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero

AI tools for Decidim

Barcelona, Spain

Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.

Decidim

Asociacion de Software Libre Decidim (Decidim Free Software Association)

The Decidim Free Software Association is a democratic association for the governance of the Decidim community.

Decidim

Polis Pilot Netherlands

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Developing an API and localized version of Pol.is for the Netherlands. De provincie Zuid-Holland, de provincie Brabant, de provincie Groningen en het Overlegorgaan Fysieke Leefomgeving (onderdeel van Ministerie van I&W) willen bij dragen aan de totstandkoming van een Nederlandse versie van de applicatie Polis

Polis

Pencillabs

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

Somos uma empresa de tecnologia para instituições de impacto social. Mais do que códigos e soluções prontas, trabalhamos com nossos clientes para promover empoderamento tecnológico, gerando aprendizado, independência em seus processos e saltos estratégicos.

Unanimous AI

San Francisco

Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [plus Thinkscape and Mindmix]