These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

A website dedicated to helping employers create vote-friendly workplace policies, and celebrating those that do

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Tired of paper & pen checklists, shift notes, and log books? Join 1000s of restaurants nationwide and streamline your food safety & quality with our mobile app!

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Berlinweit gibt es ca. 84.000 Menschen die staatliche Unterstützung in Form von Grundsicherung zur Sicherung ihres Lebensunterhalts bekommen.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Get funding

Represent: Everyday democracy

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Resources and tools for Hurricane Irma response, relief and recovery.

• hurricanes

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Nigerian Law blog publishes blogposts to educate users on legal issues. It also engages users through social media by publishing information about laws and citizens’ rights.

Discourse instance for paying fines and more

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

• anti-trafficking

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Apps That Engage Everyone

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Knight Foundation is inviting nominations for its inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship.

• Fellowships

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Tech Tuesdays are a series of learning events from NCDD focused on technology for engagement.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Con i Laboratori potrai segnalare, creare e far votare proposte per il tuo quartiere: contattaci o vieni agli incontri, per lavorare insieme a tecnici del Comune di Bologna ed esperti di coprogettazione.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Goteo is an open network for crowdfunding, collaborations and training, leader in social innovation. With 2 rounds and fiscal advantages for donors!

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

It opens avenues for reflection to renew our democracy and offers concrete solutions that everyone can take up.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Tired of media reports of fundraising and poll results instead of policy issues? At OnTheIssues.org, you can see the view of every candidates on every issue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Ahora los ciudadanos de Medellín tenemos un espacio para compartir ideas y asumir retos frente a temas de ciudad: #MiMedellín

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy

Twitter Vote Report (TVR) was an all-volunteer nonpartisan online project designed to encourage voters in the 2008 U.S. presidential election to submit brief accounts of their voting experiences using mobile and online tools.

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

Haqdarshak enables citizens to access government welfare schemes for which they are eligible. They provide onlineand offline support with documentation and applications.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Idealist connects millions of idealists – people who want to do good – with opportunities for action and collaboration all over the world.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Find a job or hire someone

Voting works wants to restore trust and faith in the electoral process while also battling the risk of election interference from hackers

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Make a small donation and this group will mail voter registration forms to unregistered voters in that state.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

• Microsoft

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Partecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Front Porch Forum is a free community-building service in Vermont.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government

A cross-government programme to accelerate the release and reuse of open government data to maximise the value of that data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Liba Rubenstein, Director of Social Impact and Policy at Tumblr, explores how Tumblr's versatile platform can help nonprofits, libraries, and other changemakers tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement, and drive measurable impact.

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

MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement

• LGBTQI
• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech