Projects - Engagement tech

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Argument and transparency in public debate

The West Ham and Beckton ChatGPT is a modified version of the Chatbot from OpenAI and Microsoft. 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.

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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

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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.

Empurrando Juntas

Brazil (Brasil)

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

Instituto Cidade Democrática

Brazil (Brasil)

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

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

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.

MosaicLab

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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

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

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!

Crowdsignal

Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes

Wordpress Vote Block

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

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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.

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

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Orbis Project

Milan

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

deliberAIde

Berlin

At deliberAIde, we use artificial intelligence to enable inclusive dialogues at scale

U_Code

Dresden

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

Public Square (podcast)

Podcast by CitizenLab

Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit

Philadelphia

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

The Citizens’ Biometrics Council

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

City-Level Decision-Making Tool

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

Iniciativa legislativa dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

Iniciativa de referendo dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

Petições para Assembleia da República

Lisbon

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

PeaceFem

The University of Edinburgh

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

Participate Practically

Prague, Czechia

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

Center for Democracy Innovation

Washington, DC

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings

Washington, DC

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

Civic Engagement Scorecard

Washington, DC

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.