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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.

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WITNESS

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

Berkeley City Council municipal bonds civic crowdfunding

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

La boîte à idées

La boîte à idées

Plougastel-Daoulas, France

A 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

This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.

Neocity

Neocity

France

Neocity 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

The 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.

Wahl-O-Mat

Wahl-O-Mat

Germany

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

Ethelo

Ethelo

Vancouver

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

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

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

Apollo

Apollo

Washington, DC

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

Engagement methods for housing associations and beyond

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

SPILNO

SPILNO

Darvina St, 5, Kyiv, Ukraine

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

Government Digital Service UK

Government Digital Service UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

Barcelona Digital City

Barcelona Digital City

Barcelona, Spain

The priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformation.

GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog

GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog

GovLab New York University

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

Protect the Vote

Protect the Vote

Common Cause, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Protect the Vote is a national coalition of nonpartisan organizations focused on making sure everyone can vote. They have great volunteer opportunities across the country.

Parliament Watch

Par­lia­ment Watch is a non-profit or­ga­ni­za­tion that mon­i­tors and re­ports on the work of the Par­lia­ment of Uganda. The or­ga­ni­za­tion also lever­ages tech­nol­ogy to share live minute-by-the-minute up­dates on so­cial me­dia and pro­vides in-depth analy­sis to cre­ate a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing on the busi­ness of Par­lia­ment.

RaRaRe

RaRaRe

58 Omorinre Johnson Street, Lekki Phase I, Lekki, Nigeria

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

Legislation.gov.uk

Legislation.gov.uk

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.

Talkto.nyc

Talkto.nyc

New York, NY

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

DemTools

DemTools is designed to help empower civil society organizations, political parties and legislatures around the world by applying technology solutions to common challenges

The Center for Election Science

We hope these tools help you out in running your next election. If you do not have word processing or spreadsheet software, you can use Libre Office or Open Office for free. If you've found this resource valuable, please tell others and consider a donation. Additionally, we do not offer resources for plurality elections because it is an awful voting method and should never be used.

Conversation AI

Conversation AI

Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

Your Fucking Polling Place

A parodical -- but functional -- polling place lookup site modeled on 'What's for fucking dinner?'

DemocracyOS

DemocracyOS

Buenos Aires

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.

CouncilStat NYC

CouncilStat NYC

New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

Ethelo Citizen Budget

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

Networked European Democracy

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.

Commonplace

Boost understanding, get consensus and deliver projects that people love with our all-in-one citizen engagement platform.

Civil Kapocs

Civil Kapocs

Hungary (Magyarország)

segítünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings

Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy

Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy

Thimmaiah Road, Govinda Chetty Colony, Rajiv Gandhi Colony, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Janaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

Plural Policy (formerly Civic Eagle)

Shape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.

I am in the city / 我地.市正

Hong Kong's Neighborhood forum //「我地.市正」(Ourland Searching) 係一個街坊媒體。 用家可以查詢即時位置或選擇位置附近 1 公里內發生的社區事件: 公共設施 社區活動 社區議題 街坊可以隨時隨地「報料」: 匯報社區問題,仲可以一直跟進事態發展。

Plural Policy (previously Open States)

Plural Policy (previously Open States)

United States of America (the)

Track bills, review legislation, research data & see how your representatives are voting.

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