Civic Tech Field Guide

co:census courses

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

trainings

Engagement tech

corona moments

The University of Edinburgh

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

Single Stop

Single Stop is an online screening tool that can quickly link students to federal, state, and local aid, with questions about household size, income, and location.

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

books
city

AI for Good Foundation

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

Acción Colectiva

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

Decade-Plus Club

OpenMedia

1424 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

ACCESS NYC

New York City, NY, USA

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

US Election 2020

Corporate Civic Playbook

United States of America (the)

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

commercial

1Degree

San Francisco

Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources

Accela Civic Insight

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

Vienna Principles

Vienna

Im Zuge der Erstellung der Digitalen Agenda Wien kristallisierten sich neun Leitmotive für das Denken und Handeln aller Beteiligten heraus.

Alegeri Parlamentare 2016

Romania

Ghidul complet al alegerilor parlamentare din 11 decembrie. Compară aici candidații la alegerile parlamentare, programele de guvernare si orientarile ideologice.

ActionKit

Washington, DC

Tools to build a movement

Decade-Plus Club

CivilSpace

British Columbia

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

#TacticalVote (formerly Tactical2017)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Tactical voting against the Tories.

Action Path

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

apps

Abierto al publico

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

ActLocal Organization Directory

Find organizations, chapters, and groups that are leading the progressive movement.

partisan

Idee.paris

France

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

city

#NamingTheLost

A 24 hour Covid Vigil, May 20 - May 21, 2PM-2PM ET

Alia

National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

Alia was an online platform to help house cleaners get benefits. National Domestic Workers Alliance has pivoted to an organizational membership model instead of a branded platform.

labor

18F Modular Contracting guide

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Modular Contracting and Agile Development in government.

ActiVote

1 Avery St, Boston, MA, USA

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

Digital Participation Platform Ratings

Global

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

IncluCity Calgary

Calgary, AB, Canada

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

Global

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

guides

Digital participation platforms

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

books
city

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

C3PLACES

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

public space

I Take Actions

Abuja, Nigeria

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

GovSight

14110 Rocky Valley Dr, Centreville, VA, USA

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

local

RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

Russian Federation (the)

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

Fight disinformation

Rep'd, Inc.

United States of America (the)

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

Forward Games

Games and gamification for local engagement

Games and gamification

Report: AI Governance in Southeast Asia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

Artificial Intelligence

The State of Digital Rights in Indonesia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Report by EngageMedia

Digital rights

민주주의 서울 (Democracy Seoul)

Seoul

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

IBTYKAR

Algeria (Dzayer)

IBTYKAR, MOUVEMENT POLITIQUE & CITOYEN

Graveyard

BetaNYC

Manhattan Borough President

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

Civic hacking meetups

What Works Cities

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

Loomio Cooperative Limited

New Zealand

Parent company of the Loomio tool

Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Audrey Tang: Stories from the Future of Democracy

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

Enspiral

New Zealand

Enspiral is a network of people working on stuff that matters. Our mission is to support people to do the same.

g0v Taiwan

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.