Projects - Engagement tech

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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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Citibeats

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, USA

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

Climate Democracy

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

Legislative Theater

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

guides

Participatory Policymaking

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

guides

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.

guides

Colab.re

Brazil (Brasil)

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

apps

The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

Purpoz

France

Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)

Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid

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.

cycling

Civic Voices

Nairobi

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

apps

ONTRaC Learning Management System

Canada

This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network

trainings

Framework for Digitally enabled citizen-led participatory processes

Pakistan

A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.

guides

actNOW

Africa

A 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

Climate action

Smart City-Strategie Berlin

Berlin

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

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

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.

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.

Global South Alliance

Budget Simulator for Pilot United Territorial Communities

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

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.

Citizen Helpdesk

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

La Constitución es Nuestra

Santiago, Chile

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Join Together

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Digital tools for trade unions

Engagement tech

Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

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

NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform

New York City

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

Decidim

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

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.

Column

Miami

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

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

Brooklyn, NY

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

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

trainings

Engagement tech

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.

Decade-Plus Club

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.

US Election 2020

#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.

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.

1Degree

San Francisco

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

ACCESS NYC

New York City, NY, USA

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

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.

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.

민주주의 서울 (Democracy Seoul)

Seoul

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

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.