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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Open civic data

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

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. The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Organisations is designed to assess an organisation’s commitment to a level of development in embedding cultural safety.

• 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

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

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

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

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

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

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Nonprofit tech
• Manage volunteers

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• 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

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

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

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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

• 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
• Digital transformation
• Evaluate impact

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. Our limited attention has become the most valuable resource on the internet and it is captured and manipulated via the rampant and unregulated collection of our personal data. This is surveillance capitalism at work - a relentless assault on our private data that provide intimate insights which are sold to the highest bidder, with next-to-no awareness or control. We are told that having our data taken is the price we pay for the “free” use of digital services. But this system places the priorities of corporates ahead of the social good while it manipulates our social perspective, drives division and isolates us from each other. There are few practical ways to opt out of the attention economy that depends on pervasive surveillance. And even if you manage to on an individual level, the real world impact of this data-driven social manipulation is impossible to avoid. Big Tech controls a global audience of billions with a market power that is unprecedented in the history of media. Yet they have almost no oversight and reject liability for the harms their products cause.

• 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

OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

A web application to connect the general public with the large network of shelters and rescue organisations when people run into wildlife in distress.

• animals
• Sustainable cities and communities
• fires

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

An example of an issue campaign app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

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

It is a collective of people using their skills to create things for the public good. Sometimes this involves tech, sometimes community organising, sometimes it's just talking about and understanding a problem from different points of view.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

Over 60 percent of people that go to court for a minor offence are planning to and plead guilty. The tool enables guilty pleas to be lodged online prior to the scheduled court date for non-complex minor offences.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

School Finder is an online tool for parents or guardians to find the right school for their kids.

• Quality education

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Data visualization

Discover how your MP votes on the issues that matter to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

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
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Queensland Law Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to help Queensland residents withtheir legal problems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Access social benefits
• Bots
• Emerging Tech Projects

Intelligence driving public sector performance

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Re-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

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

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
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Building a 21st century government, together. We’re working towards a government that is built by and made for everyone.

• Govtech
• The People
• Meet the others

CivVic Labs brings government and startups together to solve public sector challenges and deliver better outcomes for Victorians.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People