Civic Tech Field Guide
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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.
Recommended reading:
- 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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SAAFE DelibTech
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies
Crowdpolicy Innovation Management Platform
El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45The 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 45Crowd_Ideabox is a direct and easy way to submit, collect and evaluate ideas inside an organization.
Crowdapps
El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions
SAAFE
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies
PSi
LondonGain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.
Agora Citizen Network
FranceWhere citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.
What Could BG Be
Bowling Green, KentuckyEngagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky
Sensemaker
New York CitySensemaker, an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, helps make sense of large-scale online conversations, leveraging LLMs to categorize statements, and summarize statements and voting patterns to surface actionable insights.
Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceThis paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.
Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas
Colab
São PauloCom 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.
Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.
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.
ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection
Oslo, NorwayNorwegian 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.
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.
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, SpainBuilding the Agenda for the 9th Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Spain on Consider.it
Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.
ThemeFinder
10 Downing StreetThemeFinder 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 StreetConsult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.
Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAStanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview
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, SpainThe 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.
UrbanistAI
EuropeThe platform to reimagine the future of our cities.
Engagez activement votre communauté dans les processus décisionnels
San José Data Usage Protocols & Public Comment initiative
San Jose, California, USAPublic Comment period for emerging place-based tech deployed in San José
Dublin City Council Engage platform
Dublin, IrelandJoin the Engage platform to share your thoughts on Dublin City Council projects, policies and plans. A Go Vocal instance.
The Decidim Free Software Association is a democratic association for the governance of the Decidim community.
Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero
AI tools for Decidim
Barcelona, SpainWork 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.
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
Pencillabs
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, BrazilSomos 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 FranciscoUnanimous 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, IcelandActive Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.
Stanford Online Deliberation Platform
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USAThe 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
OpenStad.org
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Het open source platform voor digitale participatie-projecten.
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.
Participa gencat
Catalonia (Spain)Portal de participació ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Decidim instance.
West Ham and Beckton GPT
LondonAs 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, FranceArgument and transparency in public debate
Common Good AI
PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264Common 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, DCA Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations
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