Civic Tech Field Guide
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Participatory democracy strives to create opportunities for all members of a population to make meaningful contributions to decision-making and seeks to broaden the range of people who have access to such opportunities. (Wikipedia: Participatory democracy)
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Rahvaalgatus.ee
TallinnEstonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally
Participate.Online + Envirolytical
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaA digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues
Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu
Democracy Without Borders campaign
Decide Madrid
Madrid (Spain)Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.
BiPart
Italy (Italia)Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making
All Our Ideas
Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, IcelandAll Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.
DemosX
Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea
Parti Town Hall
43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of KoreaThe ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings
Abre Tu Muncipio
Santiago, ChileDigital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.
Alaveteli
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Run your own Freedom of Information website
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.
Wahl-O-Mat
Germany (Deutschland)The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.
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.
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.
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
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.
Sortition Foundation
Cambridge, UKOrganization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies
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
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
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.
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.
Ghanoonban
TehranUsing modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality
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.
Decidim
Barcelona, SpainFree open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
OpenParlamento
RomeCosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.
Citizen Observatory Madrid
Madrid (Spain)In this panel called Citizen Observatory, a group of people chosen at random will approach and provide solutions to key issues for the life of the citizens of Madrid.
Grassroot
Johannesburg, South AfricaGrassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.
This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
Bang the Table EngagementHQ
AustraliaOur complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.
US FDA's device approval process
The GovLab, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USAConnecting Expertise to Government
Polco
Middleton, WIPolco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.
GoFundMe: The most trusted free online fundraising platform. Start a successful crowdfunding campaign on the site with over $5 Billion Raised. Read our guarantee!
PeakMetrics
Los Angeles, CAPeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.
Public Square
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.
DOSVIT
1991 Civic Tech Center, вулиця Мечникова, Kyiv, UkraineWebsite builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine
Place Speak
New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADAPlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.
New Zealand Digital Service Design Tools
New ZealandThese tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.
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