Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Policy simulators

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Playbooks and design principles

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani

• celebrities

• Civic literacy
• Shows and films

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Incubators

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Honor your loved ones with a digital Día de Muertos altar by the Los Angeles Times

• Media
• Engagement journalism
• Participatory memorials

CandidateWatch is a non-partisan, non-profit project which helps to make election campaigning more transparent and politicians more accountable.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

• democracy
• human rights
• peace

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Factchecking

OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Seit mehr als 30 Jahren bringt Mehr Demokratie die direkte Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung voran und kümmert sich um Transparenz und ein faires Wahlrecht.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Democratic Innovations

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Trolling, or social media behavior that is uncivil and provocative is one of the most potent sources of political polarization today

• harassment

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

FUSE increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.

• Fellowships

“Making Government Information More Accessible”

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access to laws

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• Challenges

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Peer-reviewed research

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling

ALL YOU CAN LEARN – Das ist nicht nur der Name unseres Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramms, sondern auch unser Versprechen an dich!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Translation and linguistic representation

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

Initiative of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Citizen Engagement

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.

• cycling

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Peer-reviewed research

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives