Projects - Engagement tech

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

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.

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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

Petições para Assembleia da República

Lisbon

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

Iniciativa de referendo dos cidadãos

Lisbon

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

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.

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.

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.

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Octree

Geneva, Switzerland

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

voca

Geneva, Switzerland

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

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.

Decision 21

Prague, Czechia

Online platform for civic participation

Association Civic Tech Europe

Javna rasprava Lokal

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

Find local consultations (Gov.UK)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

The Computational Democracy Project

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

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AI • Objectives • Institute

San Francisco

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

Talk to the City

San Francisco

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

Delib Citizen Space

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

Decisive Team

Fast group decision-making.

Agora (France)

Paris, France

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

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Speakeasy.ai

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

Peticijos.lt

Lithuania (Lietuva)

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

Free Machine

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.