Reporter is an iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable.

• apps

• Surveys & polling

The Common Measurements Tool (CMT) is a survey instrument built specifically for the public sector that can be used across the full range of service areas, service channels, and client types. Its standardized methodology allows not just for effective performance measurement but also for direct comparisons between different organizations.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Surveys & polling

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

• Media
• Surveys & polling
• Engagement journalism

Our out-of-the box, modular technology integrates with existing systems and is fully GDPR compliant.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Surveys & polling

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• cities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

A modernized think tank; fast-turnaround, social media-optimized, and rigorous analysis.

• Surveys & polling

Avalanche provides transformative insight into what people care about and why. We deliver the depth of a focus group at the scale of polling.

• Surveys & polling

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
• Surveys & polling
• Benchmarks

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We help government teams gather & analyze inclusive data to achieve equitable outcomes. Get actionable insights faster with our cloud-based solution.

• Govtech
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Communicating with the people
• Issue reporting
• Surveys & polling

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization

• place-based

• Surveys & polling
• Mapping tools

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

• apps

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Bureaucracy tech

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Latvian survey + group decision-making tool

• Surveys & polling
• Group decision making

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Bureaucracy tech

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Mix core ideas from survey research with new insights from crowdsourcing. Add a heavy dose of statistics. Stir in a bit of fresh thinking. Enjoy.

• Surveys & polling

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

76engage is an online platform that strengthens the bonds between citizens and public institutions through meaningful public engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• cities

• Media
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Digital participation platforms
• Organize campaigns

Predictwise is a powerful data, analytics, research, and survey platform that can generate customized, granularized insights on any voter in any district in the country.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Polco 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.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

YouGov is a global public opinion and data company. Explore what the world thinks, discover our solutions, and join our community to share your opinion.

• Surveys & polling

Assembl methodology is based on two key elements: establishing different phases to facilitate dialogue and continuously structuring information using digital tools.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

For the first time, city leaders can track the real-time pulse of how every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Surveys & polling

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling
• Housing

Avalanche Strategy produces audience insights with the depth of a focus group and the accuracy of polling.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)

Create campaign websites and embed email, call-in, fundraising and social network actions targeting politicians and decision makers anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Communicating with the government

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

We are not just a widget – we are THE platform for brands to scale content marketing and insight

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RankedVote is the easiest way to create ranked-choice voting polls on any device.

• Voting and elections
• Surveys & polling
• Ranked Choice Voting

KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation