Initiative by 18F to demonstrate the potential for API-enabled benefits eligibility logic services.

• APIs
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits
• Civic data APIs

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.

• Group decision making
• Meeting tech

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Latvian survey + group decision-making tool

• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Web design company

• Social impact design firms

The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.

• Awards and prizes

Blockchain-based online voting tool and machines

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Polish issue-reporting app

• Issue reporting

Online hangouts with government officials

• Communicating with the government
• Open asks

aula is a completely new way of thinking about what participation means, offering young people the chance to play an active part in shaping the world around them

• students

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer-reviewed research

German digital debates program sponsored by YouTube

• YouTube

• Shows and films
• Debate

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

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Govtech
• Bots
• Bureaucracy tech

Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

NewsScore worked as a Browser extension, providing you with context on the news you consume online, as you scroll through your feed. Whether that’s on social media, newsfeed, or any type of online environment.

• extensions

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

We'll be looking at ways to visualise air pollution in situ and in real time, so people can see the pollution levels on their streets.

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Democrasoft’s mission is to make a significant and lasting contribution to our world

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

location analytics: pinpointing the vital information, connections and patterns you need to make better, more insightful decisions

• Graveyard
• Mapping tools

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

OpenGov's tool to supplement public hearings with surveys, forums, and online meetings.

• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Was a neighborhood-based social network platform

• Graveyard
• Neighborhood forums

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Open planning platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

A crowdsourced collection of personal stories, how-to articles, and resource lists on four major topics: Funding, People, Mission, and Operations + Tech.

• Playbooks and design principles

Slack instance for the Code for group

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Engage residents with mapping and commenting

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

Platformable supports the development of open ecosystems

• Civic data
• Civic and social impact companies
• Civic data APIs

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Newsletters

Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Utility that generates a namecard containing your pronouns and how to pronounce your name

• Diversity & Inclusion

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• United Nations

• Participatory democracy

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

Reimagining Caribbean Society in the Digital Age

• Civic and social impact companies

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking