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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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.
TurboVote
Brooklyn, NYWe help you vote, no matter what.
Immaginazione Civica
Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 BolognaThe 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, 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.
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.
Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.
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.
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.
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.
Vote411
1730 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036, USAElection Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund
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.
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.
State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned
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.
This 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
Apollo
Washington, DCThe Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.
SPILNO
Darvina St, 5, Kyiv, UkraineDigital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions
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, SpainThe 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 New York UniversityThe CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
Parliament Watch (Uganda)
UgandaParliament Watch is a non-profit organization that monitors and reports on the work of the Parliament of Uganda
Vot Diaspora
RomaniaVot Diaspora este o platformă dezvoltată de Code for Romania care oferă rapid românilor din Diaspora informații despre cum pot vota la alegerile din anul 2024.
RaRaRe
58 Omorinre Johnson Street, Lekki Phase I, Lekki, NigeriaA Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa
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
New York CityIt's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.
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
We hope these tools help you out in running your next election
Conversation AI
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAConversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.
Protect the Vote
Common Cause, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAProtect the Vote is a national coalition of nonpartisan organizations focused on making sure everyone can vote. They have great volunteer opportunities across the country.
A parodical -- but functional -- polling place lookup site modeled on 'What's for fucking dinner?'
DemTools is designed to help empower civil society organizations, political parties and legislatures around the world by applying technology solutions to common challenges
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.
Register to vote on Snapchat
Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA, USARegister to vote on Snapchat
Commonplace
LondonBoost understanding, get consensus and deliver projects that people love with our all-in-one citizen engagement platform.
DemocracyOS
Buenos AiresDemocracyOS 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
New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USAA source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents
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