The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

A texting hotline promoting education for peace

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Israel Palestine

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Peer to peer SMS

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Learn about civic tech

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

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

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Democratic Innovations

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

• Decidim
• People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

• city
• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• city
• WhatsApp
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

Online platform for civic participation

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

• Engagement tech
• Bots

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Government transparency

Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.

• Group decision making

Over 60 people were interviewed to help understand the user needs of digital consultations.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

How might tech support communities to carry out collective decision-making and collective design?

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A scratchpad for studying and imagining revived civic engagement in the 21st century.

• Voting and elections
• Newsletters

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, 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.

• Polis

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

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

A la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Fast group decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Advertising
• Voter outreach

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good