People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

Marketplacer is a marketplace platform and dropshipping solution that enables enterprise companies to expand by seamlessly integrating third-party seller inventory into their e-commerce platforms.

we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies

newDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Democratic Innovations

emqnet delivers data-driven software built and supported by a team of resilience experts.

• Govtech
• Emergency services

As the peak body for the community and stakeholder engagement sector, IAP2 Australasia, believes that engagement, when done well, improves environmental, social and governance outcomes and increases trust in the democratic process.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Fieldwide resources

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Research tools

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning
• Service alerts

Alaveteli instance for Australia

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Public Sector Network is a social learning platform that exists to help government around the globe break down silos, collaborate, and work together for better outcomes for citizens.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Public Sector Network’s second Government Innovation California in-person event will bring together public sector leaders across all levels of government from across the State and region to share their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects.

• state

• Govtech
• Conferences

The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Your one stop government solution shop

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

The Australian Ad Observatory project is enabling independent research into the role that algorithmically targeted advertising plays in society.

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We connect, engage and mobilise communities through online volunteering to impact global issues.

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Manage volunteers

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Social impact design firms

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Not-For-Profit & Community Jobs around Australia

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Transparency International Australia is is part of a global movement against corruption, working for a stronger democracy

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Digital transformation

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."

• Climate action

• Games and gamification

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Lateral Economics do things differently so that their clients reap the rewards

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Legal Aid Checker provides a guided pathway to information about common legal issues.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

The Digital Service Standard is a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Our 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.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Justice Connect provides legal help to people and communites at risk of being of left behind by the law. This includesa guided diagnostic, intake and triage tool, several online self-help tools, and a facility that allows other organisationsto refer people to Justice Connect.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Pairing talented technologists with government change-makers to tackle complex social issues

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

At the Digital Transformation Agency, we help government improve digital services to make them simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

NationalMap is an online map-based tool to allow easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The South Australian open data toolkit, contains resources to help agencies release open data. The resources can be tailored to suit your requirements.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech