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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Particitiz
Rue d'Alost 11, 1000 Bruxelles, BelgiumParticipatory process facilitators and partners
We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.
Abre Tu Muncipio
Santiago, ChileDigital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.
Civic Action Teams
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities
Kijiji Yeetu
KenyaKijiji Yeetu is a smart village platform that offers a unique ecosystem for activating our villages’ resources, knowledge, inspiration into viable development opportunities in 47 counties in Kenya, East Africa and beyond the world.
Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.
Streetmix
PhiladelphiaCivic engagement for street design
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
Sortition Foundation
Cambridge, UKOrganization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies
State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned
Vote411
1730 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036, USAElection Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund
La boîte à idées
Plougastel-Daoulas, FranceA la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.
OECD Digital Government Toolkit
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceThis toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.
Neocity
FranceNeocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en
NY Senate Bill Alerts
New York, USAThe New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.
Improving procurement to take on homelessness in Seattle
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaThe city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions
Wahl-O-Mat
Germany (Deutschland)The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.
Ethelo
VancouverEthelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
engage2
Sydney NSW, Australiaengage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.
TurboVote
Brooklyn, NYWe help you vote, no matter what.
VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.
Worldie – Social Media for Good
San Diego, CAWorldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.
coUrbanize
33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USAcoUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.
Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.
Polis
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaPolis is a 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.
JobKraftwerk
Germany (Deutschland)The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.
Veterans Affairs Canada Find benefits & services tool
Quebec City, QC, CanadaBy answering just a few questions, this tool can provide a list of benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that are the most relevant to you.
RapidPro
Nyaruka, Kigali, RwandaRapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.
Ryecatcher
420 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, United StatesRyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.
Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements
TalkLondon
LondonTalk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.
Pokket
75 5th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308Pokket℠ connects justice agencies and human service providers with returning citizens to break the cycle.
Decidim
Barcelona, SpainFree open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
OpenParlamento
RomeCosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.
Vote for Policies
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Vote for Policies makes it easy to compare what the political parties are promising to do in the 2017 general election. It helps you decide who to vote for.
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