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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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Smart City-Strategie Berlin

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

CiviCue

CiviCue

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

CiviCue is a decentralized autonomous civic media platform equipped with blockchain civic tech that aims to disrupt existing media landscape by serving as a public good collectively owned and managed by all users who contribute to the platform wellbeing and benefit from profit sharing, thus balancing commercial interests and social values.

Urbanpinion

Urbanpinion

Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)

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.

Citizen Helpdesk

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

Budget Simulator for Pilot United Territorial Communities

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.

Center for Policy Alternatives

Center for Policy Alternatives

Batticaloa, 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.

La Constitución es Nuestra

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Join Together

Join Together

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Digital tools for trade unions

Demokratiefabrik

Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

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

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.

Airbnb.org

Airbnb.org

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.

NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform

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

Column

Column

Miami

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

inCitu

inCitu

New York City

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.

Healthier Democracies Case Studies

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.

Nesta Democracy Pioneers

Nesta Democracy Pioneers

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.

co:census courses

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

1Degree

1Degree

San Francisco

Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources

#TacticalVote (formerly Tactical2017)

#TacticalVote (formerly Tactical2017)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Tactical voting against the Tories.

Abierto al publico

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

Single Stop

Single Stop is an online screening tool that can quickly link students to federal, state, and local aid, with questions about household size, income, and location.

Delib Dialogue

Delib Dialogue

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

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

ACCESS NYC

ACCESS NYC

New York City, NY, USA

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

ActiVote

ActiVote

1 Avery St, Boston, MA, USA

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

Responsive Policy Project

Responsive Policy Project

United States of America (the)

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Enspiral

Enspiral

New Zealand

Enspiral is a network of people working on stuff that matters. Our mission is to support people to do the same.

g0v Taiwan

g0v Taiwan

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

vTaiwan presentation

vTaiwan presentation

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

An overview of the vTaiwan process

Citizink

Citizink

Málaga (Spain)

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

Discuto

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

IBM Project Debater

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.

Decidim Census

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

City as a Platform

City as a Platform

Estr. Paço do Lumiar 44, R/C Dto 1600-546 Lisboa, Portugal

Mapping solution for municipalities

Abre Alcaldías

Abre Alcaldías

Latin America

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

Rahvaalgatus.ee

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

Participate.Online + Envirolytical

Participate.Online + Envirolytical

Seattle, WA, United States of America

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

Peoples' Tech Assemblies

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

Decide Madrid

Decide Madrid

Madrid (Spain)

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

BiPart

BiPart

Italy (Italia)

Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

All Our Ideas

All Our Ideas

Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland

All Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.

Smarticipatie

Smarticipatie

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Dutch participatory engagement company

Nordic Path

Nordic Path

Norway (Norge, Noreg)

A public engagement project around air quality

Make.org

Make.org

France

Express your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete actions!

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