Civic Tech Field Guide

The Laboratory for Civic Technology

United States of America (the)

CommonPlace, the Civic Tech Lab’s flagship project, is a civic-minded, not-for-profit, and open source web platform for local community engagement.

Cobi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.

Power the Polls

Power the Polls makes it really easy to sign up to become a poll worker and ensure that there are enough people to staff voting locations across the country.

US Election 2020

En première ligne

France

Fostered solidarity networks against the COVID-19

COVID-19

ParticipateDB

San Jose, California, USA

the digital engagement catalogue

iConstituent

Purpose-built specifically for government

StreetBank

88 Peterborough Road, London SW6 3HH, UK

Streetbank puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer.

Digital Health Lab

San Francisco

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

Startnext

Startnext ist die größte Crowdfunding-Plattform in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz für Projekte von Gründern, Erfindern und Kreativen. Entdecke neue Ideen oder finanziere dein Projekt!

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

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ISideWith

See which American political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2018 issues that are most important to you.

Zuela

California

Zuela is a civic engagement, social networking platform aimed at promoting good governance. We are committed to creating a good community that is free from major issues affecting our society today.

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Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).

Practical Participation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

Monitorizare Vot

Romania

Defunct vote monitoring service

CovidMeasures.info

A/D/O, Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures

The OpenGov Foundation Glossary

Glossary of terms for constituent engagement

Mudamos signature collection app

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

Cuidando.org

Información y Recursos para pacientes

If.Then.Fund

Washington, DC

Donate to politicians who vote for the issues you care about—and the opponents of the ones who don’t.

Smiile

Rejoignez votre réseau de voisinage pour collaborer, partager, recycler, covoiturer, acheter groupé, animer sa vie de quartier et réaliser des économies avec vos voisins !

How Cities Can Improve Their Procurement of Goods and Services

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

Book chapter by Jeffrey Liebman and Hanna Azemati

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

Da o Nota

Bucharest, Romania

Ai intrat in contact cu o institutie publica pentru a beneficia de un serviciu? Daca ati fost multumit de calitatea serviciilor primite, sau dimpotrivt, daca ati fost nemultumit, haideti sa le dam si o nota!

UK Behavioural Insights Team

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Global leaders and pioneers in applied behavioural science

Bite the Ballot

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

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PositionDial

As you go along agreeing or disagreeing with policy positions on PositionDial, your monster will build before your eyes.

Stig

Paris, France

Stig est une application gratuite qui permet aux citoyens de construire ensemble la volonté générale à l'échelle de la France ainsi qu'à l'échelle locale.

OK Covid Vaccination Appointment Assistant

Tulsa, OK

This extension filters through and hides all of the locations on the OK vaccine portal which currently don't have appointments.

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Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

487 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

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Localocracy

Huffington Post, owned by AOL, acquired the grassroots-engagement website Localocracy and plans to launch four more sites this week.

Zilino

California

Zilino is the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

DecidimFest

Barcelona, Spain

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

Decidim

Portal Legislativ

Romania

Pagina de start - Portal Legislativ

Constitution App

Zambia

an ingenious tool that lets Zambian citizens participate in the country’s ongoing constitution-drafting process—effectively allowing almost any Zambian adult to help forge the nation.