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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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 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.
Talk to the City
San FranciscoTalk 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.
AI • Objectives • Institute
San FranciscoThe 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.
Delib Citizen Space
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHNext-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.
Agora (France)
Paris, FranceL'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.
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 is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.
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.
Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.
Brasil Participativo
Brazil (Brasil)Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)
POPVOX Foundation
United States of America (the)POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.
coletivo delibera
Brazil (Brasil)O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.
Es geht LOS!
BerlinWir sind ein zivilgesellschaftlicher, überparteilicher Think & Do Tank für losbasierte Bürgerbeteiligung. Wir initiieren geloste Bürgerräte kommunal, im Wahlkreis, national und sogar in öffentlichen Institutionen.
Innovationshauptplatz of the city of Linz
Linz, AustriaYou want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!
New Ways Feed
Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues
A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered
Creamos
Santiago, ChileEl Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.
Maino Tech
Helsinki, FinlandWe provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making.
Ampliando Democracia
Madrid (Spain)Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)
Red Ciudadana
GuatemalaParticipación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
Partimap
Hungary (Magyarország)PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.
Namma Mahiti Kendras
BangaloreIT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.
Hoplr
Ghent, BelgiumThe all-in-one platform for community engagement
Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
CONSUL für Schulen
Germany (Deutschland)Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule
Talk to Loop
The Hague, NetherlandsLoop’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).
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, USANYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
Climate section of 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.
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
Colab.re
Brazil (Brasil)Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
Purpoz
FrancePurpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)
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.
Civic Voices
NairobiWith the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network
A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.
actNOW
AfricaA public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement. Appears to still be under development.
PolicyEngine
United States of America (the)Compute the impact of public policy
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