Projects - Engagement tech

Hoplr

Ghent, Belgium

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

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The Collective Intelligence Project

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

Citibeats

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

The People's Money

New York City, NY, USA

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

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Climate Democracy

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

The Participation Playbook

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

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Participatory Policymaking

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

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Legislative Theater

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

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Colab.re

Brazil (Brasil)

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

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The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

Purpoz

France

Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)

Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

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Civic Voices

Nairobi

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

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ONTRaC Learning Management System

Canada

This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network. Here you can access courses, guides, and additional resources as part of your digital transformation learning journey. Whether you are just embarking on this path or are a seasoned hand, there are courses tailored to your level and interest!

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Framework for Digitally enabled citizen-led participatory processes

A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.

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actNOW

Africa

A public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement.

PolicyEngine

United States of America (the)

Compute the impact of public policy

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CiviCue

Taiwan

CiviCue is a democratic media equipped with blockchain voting and friendly voter authentication to establish shared understanding.

Smart City-Strategie Berlin

Berlin

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

Urbanpinion

Eastern Europe

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

Budget Simulator for Pilot United Territorial Communities

Ukraine

A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

La Constitución es Nuestra

Santiago, Chile

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Center for Policy Alternatives

Sri Lanka

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

Join Together

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Digital tools for trade unions

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Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)

888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

People Powered

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform

New York, NY

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

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Column

Miami

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

My City Challenge Oakland

Oakland, California

An engagement program

inCitu

New York, NY

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

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Healthier Democracies Case Studies

Brooklyn, NY

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.