Civic Tech Field Guide

Guía para el Desarrollo de Espacios Participativos

Argentina

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

Community Partnerships Playbook

Detroit, MI

How to Create Equitable Partnerships between Technical and Community Experts

guides

Miami Affordability Project (MAP)

Miami, FL

The Miami Affordability Project (MAP) is an interactive online map providing data on the distribution of affordable housing, housing needs, demographic profiles, and environmental resiliency in greater Miami.

The Global Public Impact of GovTech

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

reports

Colab

São Paulo

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

apps

COLDIGIT Collective Intelligence Tools repository

Helsinki, Finland

contains more than 70 tools and 50 cases exemplifying the use of tools

Collective Intelligence through Digital Tools (COLDIGIT)

Helsinki, Finland

The overall purpose of the COLDIGIT project is to generate new knowledge on innovative digital tools and approaches, in order to understand how they can support governance of complex societal processes in the Nordic region.

Federal Balancing Act

United States of America (the)

An Interactive Budget Simulation

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

Centre For Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID)

Abuja, Nigeria

We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation

Simply Stakeholders

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relationships.

commercial

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.

Decidim

Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

United States of America (the)

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

ECHO

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

ComprasGPT

Ecuador

Diseñado para resolver tus dudas sobre contratación pública en Ecuador

MENA Observatory on Responsible AI

Cairo

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

development

PLURALL

Paris, France

PLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.

Building in the private sector

Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma

United States of America (the)

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

How to Think/Act in Dark Times: Exploring a Critical Praxis

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USA

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

Project 2025

DigiAdGood

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

Democracy Innovation Hub

New York, USA

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders

United States of America (the)

Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker

Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (Civic Data Coop)

Liverpool

The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

city

Construyendo la Agenda de la IX Cumbre Global de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto en España

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Building the Agenda for the 9th Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Spain on Consider.it

Prosocial Media

We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang

Porticus

Amsterdam

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

Mentimeter

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

commercial

Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI)

United States of America (the)

The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law

Vocem

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement.

Zesumme Vereinfachen

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)

Burnaby, Canada

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

Renovate the Public Hearing

Burnaby, Canada

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

Datack

Paris, France

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

KICTANet

KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.

Global Trends in Government Innovation 2024

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

This report analyses nearly 800 case studies from 83 countries and identifies five critical trends in government innovation that are reshaping public services.

Africa Tech Workers Rising

Nairobi

Africa Tech Workers Rising, Kenya is a project to organize and empower front line content moderators and data enrichment workers in the AI data supply chain to improve conditions of pay, workload, health and safety, whistleblower protections, voice and respect.

Consult (Gov.UK)

10 Downing Street

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

United Kingdom (government)

ThemeFinder

10 Downing Street

ThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).