Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Participatory budgeting
• Civic and social impact companies
• Participation consultants

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

The Deliberatorium is a web-based system that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to address this critical challenge

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Deliberation

The City of Warsaw's custom participatory budgeting platform

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

En Ollin trabajamos por un México en donde impere el estado de derecho, a través de fortalecimiento de nuestras instituciones democráticas y ciudadanos capaces de transformar su realidad.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

WhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat and messaging

Greta Ríos, Directora de Ollin A.C y Ana Patricia Santamaría; Coordinadora de Innovación ciudadana, conversan sobre temas relacionados a la Participación Ciudadana

• Podcasts

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

• apps

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Surveys & polling

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory budgeting

ŠEST komunikačních kanálů v jednom nástroji.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Communicating with the people

Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization

• place-based

• Surveys & polling
• Mapping tools

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

A digital platform for reaching local leaders

• Communicating with the government

A digital platform for the public to message Chinese leaders, operated by People's Daily Online

• Communicating with the government

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

• extensions

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A weekly newsletter about social change initiatives from Slowalk in Seoul

• Newsletters

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Mapping solution for municipalities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Issue reporting

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

• Open source developer networks

Korean tech and design firm

• Social impact design firms

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

Somos una organización feminista que trabaja temas de desarrollo sostenible con metodologías de innovación y co-creación.

• trainings

• Watchdogging and transparency

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

• Participatory democracy

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Civic apps outfits

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Meeting tech

Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Group decision making

Now defunct Finnish crowdlaw platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Now defunct Finnish legislation crowdsourcing site

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Donation service that holds your funds in an interest-earning FDIC-insured account until you donate them, at which point the receiving nonprofit gets 100% of your donation.

• Fundraising tools
• Fintech for good

Social and open participation consultancy in Colombia

• Civic and social impact companies

We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks