Projects - Engagement tech

UrbanistAI

Europe

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

cities

San José Data Usage Protocols & Public Comment initiative

San Jose, California, USA

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

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

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

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]

Active Citizen

Reykjavík, Iceland

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.

Your Priorities

Stanford Online Deliberation Platform

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.

SocietySpeaks.io

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Where Conversations Shape Our Future

Participa gencat

Catalonia (Spain)

Portal de participació ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Decidim instance.

Decidim

OpenStad.org

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Het open source platform voor digitale participatie-projecten.

Murmuration.org

United States of America (the)

Amplifying the Power of Civic Engagement

Policy Synth

Iceland (Ísland)

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

ChatGPT

West Ham and Beckton GPT

London

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

CartoDEBAT

Saint-Etienne, France

Argument and transparency in public debate

Common Good AI

PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

MOXY

Washington, DC

A Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations

Community-Centered Planning for Mobility as Social Service

Indiana

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

Localwatch

Athens

Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του

cities

Civic Echo

Geneva, Switzerland

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

Instituto Cidade Democrática

São Paulo

Civil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.

Empurrando Juntas

São Paulo

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

SketchMapTool

The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!

Using machine learning to help vulnerable tenants in New York City

New York City

Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.

housing

MyPolis

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Creating space to build a democracy for all

deliberAIde

Berlin

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.

MosaicLab

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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

MASS LBP

Toronto

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

Market research of existing Civic Technologies for participation

Scotland

The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms

Public Comments Initiative

United States of America (the)

EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative sheds light on public commenting and how to engage effectively with federal rulemaking.

Civic Voices

Nairobi

An online public participation platform.

Bpart

Flanders

Jouw Platform Voor Online Participatie

Crowdsignal

Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes

Rising Stars

Berlin

Do you need help launching or enhancing a participatory program? Apply for expert mentoring support provided by the Nets4Dem network in Horizon Europe Area!

Wordpress Vote Block

Powered by Crowdsignal, you can use the Vote block to allow your audience to rate your work or express their opinion.

Wordpress

Auglinn

Wilmington, DE

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

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Gazteparte

Basque Country (Euskadi)

Gazteparte es el primer espacio digital para escuchar la opinión y las propuestas de los jóvenes y trasladarlas a las instituciones públicas.

Actionable Steps to Make Technology Work for Democracy

An Interactive Workbook by International Republican Institute

Enrolling Citizens: a primer on archetypes of democratic engagement with AI

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

Primer by Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh

Future of Constituent Engagement

United States of America (the)

POPVOX Foundation is working with legislative offices, support institutions, civil society, academics, and tech innovators to explore the future landscape of two-way engagement between representatives and constituents.

Communiti Labs

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

Orbis Project

Milan

Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales

Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method