Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

A team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting

• Facebook

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

We provide the expertise and infrastructure to turn ideas into real world change.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

University of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Reading lists

Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

MassChallenge is the global network for innovators working to solve massive challenges.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Effective public engagement is not easy to achieve. This roadmap helps organizations get to where they want to go.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech is an investigation into what it means to build civic tech with, not for.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

In the IBM Center’s new book, Government For The Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow’ Leaders, Part Two of the book looks twenty years ahead – to 2040 -- offering perspectives on the future.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit (PEU) proactively connects New Yorkers to key City services, like housing and healthcare.

• Good health and well-being
• housing

• Canvassing & Doorknocking

The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

The Public Engagement Strategy Lab will provide you with the tools and resources you need to authentically engage stakeholders in thoughtful, democratic processes

• workshops

• Workshops

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

We are an applied research lab dedicated to innovating the ways people participate in civic life and expanding the study of citizenship in a digital era.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

• Microsoft

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

An Evaluation of Digital Gaming Platforms on Civic Capacity and Collective Action in the Boston Public School District

• The People
• Evaluate impact

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

Each year, we track developments across the political technology space, providing a window into how our ecosystem is evolving—and what it means for Democratic campaigns and progressive infrastructure. This year’s report focuses on the turbulent 2024 election cycle and the hard lessons it left in its wake.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A project of the Pro-Democracy Campaign, we aim to highlight commentary, research, and examples of strong organizing, better voter engagement practices, and strategies to make democracy work for all in America.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Newsletters
• The craft of organizing

Vom 20.-22. März haben in 48 Stunden 28.361 Menschen zusammen an über 1.500 Lösungen gearbeitet. Das war der #WirVsVirus Hackathon.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• COVID

The #WirVsVirus Hackathon not only produced 1,500 solutions, but also a strong digital community.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• COVID

See how well you know Thai democracy

• Engagement tech
• Games and gamification

Das Ziel des Solution Enablers ist es, 130 Lösungen schnell zu testen und breitflächig umzusetzen, damit diese konkreten Nutzen in der Krise und danach stiften.

• Accelerators
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Der Solution Builder ist das Fast Track Programm von #WirVsVirus und setzt insgesamt ca. zehn Projekte innerhalb von acht Wochen direkt um.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Incubators

Thai organization campaigning for democratic principles

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Citizen Engagement

This training offers firsthand insight into the Flint Water Crisis—translating its failures into actionable, experience-based instruction to help regulators and public water system operators strengthen drinking water safety, public health protections, and infrastructure resilience.

• Clean water and sanitation
• lead replacement

• Internal government tech capacity

An international partnership between six public service media organizations and New_ Public to develop prototypes for digital conversation spaces that offer a healthy forum for connection and increase engagement in civic discourse.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Online forums
• Public media

"Consult was generally good at identifying the themes in a given consultation response."

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

An Essay Series Part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Evaluate impact

Veeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.

• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

The innovation management platform by Crowdpolicy helps organizations to run innovation programs with the right guidelines, organizational methods and advanced functions, tested in numerous implementations with measured results.

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Ideation

LAPPIS is a Brazilian Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) lab dedicated to promoting collaboration and engagement within free and open-source communities.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Open source
• Open source developer networks

Crowd_Ideabox is a direct and easy way to submit, collect and evaluate ideas inside an organization.

• Engagement tech
• Ideation
• Challenges

Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions

• apps
• city

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Re-imagining Democracy with Europe’s Diverse Communities

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Democratic Innovations

Gain insights from real-time conversations in less than one hour. No matter how many people.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.

• Rarimo
• European Union
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

• Google
• Sensemaker
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion – turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.

• Google
• Sensemaker
• toolkits

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital participation platforms

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

My Voice Counts is a civic-tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified issue-based voting and protest support

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Direct action