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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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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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The Perfect Candidate

1 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW, Australia

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

ThinkVoting – The Voting App

apps

OpenLaws.com

Kirchenstraße 15, 5301 Eugendorf, Salzburg, Austria

openlaws.com is a thematic search engine that is covering legal content.

Fluicity

4 Rue du Caire, 75002 Paris, France

Fluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.

apps

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

Crisis Text Line

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

AppCivist

The CITRIS Invention Lab

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

Republic

San Francisco

Now you can be an angel investor

US Department of Defense talent directory

Pizza to the Polls

Portland, OR

Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.

US Election 2020

Taiwan Open Government Report 2014-2016

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

由開放文化基金會於2017年編寫，回顧並檢視了台灣 2014-2016 「開放政府」的發展狀況，內容分為四大章節，分別為：法律制度、開放資料、公民參與、公民科技。

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

homelessness

Ride Share 2 Vote

RideShare2vote provides full training for drivers regarding voter laws as well as implementing CDC guidelines regarding masks, sanitizing before and after completing rides and social distancing with only one rider in the back seat.

Participez Nanterre

Nanterre, France

Bienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative. A Decidim instance.

Decidim

Medialab Prado

Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

Open Culture Foundation

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Open source, open data, and open government.

People's Assembly

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

Meet the Kiosks event

6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124, USA

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

Granicus

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

Nextdoor

Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community.

SF72

Brought to you by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management, in partnership with the people of San Francisco. sfdem.org

Gabinete de Inovação

Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

Involved

Involved is an application that connects you with all of your elected officials through polling and direct messaging

engage2

Sydney NSW, Australia

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

Improving procurement to take on homelessness in Seattle

Seattle, WA, United States of America

The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions

Singapore Behavioral Insights unit

Singapore

Our Singapore office was officially launched in September 2016.

CauseVox

Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.

Google Public Alerts

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

Google

Results-Driven Contracting at Harvard Kennedy School

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements

Vota Inteligente

Santiago, Chile

The election is ours

Worldie – Social Media for Good

San Diego, CA

Worldie‘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.

Ryecatcher

420 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, United States

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

TurboVote

Brooklyn, NY

We help you vote, no matter what.

US Election 2020

Immaginazione Civica

Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 Bologna

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

Veterans Affairs Canada Find benefits & services tool

Quebec City, QC, Canada

By answering just a few questions, this tool can provide a list of benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that are the most relevant to you.

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis 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.

Polis

OpenIDEO

Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.

Pimp my Corroca

Google Sheet budget

Insights

Washington, DC

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

VOXMAPP

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.