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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Ideenplattform
FrankfurtHier können Sie Ihre Ideen zur Gestaltung der Stadt vorstellen und um Unterstützung werben.
Policy Bridge KE
NairobiPolicy Bridge KE is a civic-tech platform built by young people, for young people, rooted in the belief that Kenya's youth hold real, practical solutions to the country's most persistent challenges.
Convexus
SeattleAn AI-facilitated civic tech platform where communities gather to align, deliberate, and act.
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CivicVerify
civic verifyIdentity-verified civic engagement platform where citizens participate in polls, surveys, and community discussions with authenticated identities, providing organizations with trustworthy public opinion data.
Suffrago
LondonBuilding the next generation of market research and polling through contextualised insights that fuel decision making.
The Common News
ChicagoThe Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.
In just five months, 850+ residents engaged as Westminster’s Church Street team shifted from spreadsheets to real-time, data-driven engagement to build affordable homes in the community.
Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability
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Le Conseil économique, social et environnemental conseille le Gouvernement et le Parlement. Il représente les organisations de la société civile et associe les citoyens à la vie démocratique.
Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust between the government and the community.
Demoxis
LondonAI-powered civic engagement platform reconnecting people and power — one voice at a time.
LaSuite.coop
France 🇫🇷La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
e-Democracia Brasil
BrasíliaO Portal E-Democracia foi criado em 2009 para uso pelos deputados e pelas comissões temáticas, com os objetivos de ampliar a participação social no processo legislativo e aproximar cidadãos e seus representantes, por meio da interação digital.
geo.pol.is
SeattlePublic opinion infrastructure for cities
Veeto
San FranciscoVeeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.
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.
PSi
LondonGain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.
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.
My Voice Counts
DelawareMy Voice Counts is a civic tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified, issue based voting and civic support.
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 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.
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
United States of America 🇺🇸Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
UrbanistAI
EuropeThe platform to reimagine the future of our cities.
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.
An annual participatory decision-making program where members vote on budgets, policies, and board selections
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]
SocietySpeaks.io
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Making Disagreement Useful Again
OpenStad.org
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱Het open source platform voor digitale participatie-projecten.
CartoDEBAT
Saint-Etienne, FranceArgument and transparency in public debate
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.
Civic Echo
GenevaCivic 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.
We’re building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale.
deliberAIde
BerlinWe 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.
Market research of existing Civic Technologies for participation
Scotland 🏴The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms
Rising Stars
BerlinDo you need help launching or enhancing a participatory program? Apply for expert mentoring support provided by the Nets4Dem network in Horizon Europe Area!
Auglinn
Wilmington, DEDrop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.
Future of Constituent Engagement
United States of America 🇺🇸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, AustraliaCommuniti 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, CAMeta'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
City-Level Decision-Making Tool
Orlando, FLThe Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.
Converlens
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaDiscover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.
Civic Engagement Scorecard
Washington, DCIt'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.
Plataforma de Articulación Comunitaria
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.
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