Civic Tech Field Guide

Sovereign

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

Vote Matrix

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

TheyWorkforYou

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

Mi Medellín

Medellín, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

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

Civic Innovation Slack

An online forum for community discussion

Extituto

Bogotá

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

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

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Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Barcelona, Spain

In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is emerging to defend human rights, democracy and the common good. Fearless Cities is the first book written by and for the global municipalist movement.

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The Internet of Ownership

New York City

The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.

Partecipa

Bologna, Italy

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.

Watchout Issues Lab

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Watchout is dedicated to lower the threshold of civic participation so that more can understand and engage in our political processes to make Taiwan a better nation

una nova constitucio

Catalonia (Spain)

Here you can find the Catalan Constitution draft that has been written by the group of jurists led by Santiago Vidal. Help us and give us your opinion on the different articles. Your opinion counts!

GovRight

Kyiv

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

Delta.NYC

Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

Press Start

Press Start’s mission is to foster independent journalism where it is suppressed.

Smartvote

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

smartvote BePart ist eine partizipative Plattform. Über diese Plattform können Bürger/-innen aktiv an der Gestaltung des smartvote-Fragebogens für ihre Wahl teilnehmen und ihre eigenen Ideen und Fragen einbringen.

Fundacja Moje Państwo

Fundacja ePaństwo, Warsaw, Poland

ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

Pauta Participativa

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

invites citizens to help set Parliament's agenda with a sophisticated form of ranked voting that allows them to express more nuanced preferences than traditional first-past-the-post systems

I Will Vote

Select your state, make sure you're registered to vote, then choose how you're going to vote this year. Built by the Democrats.

CrowdJustice

CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform that enables individuals, groups and communities to come together to fund legal action.

Nyaaya

Defence Colony, New Delhi, Delhi 110024, India

Nyaaya’s platform provides comprehensive information on various legal topics in an accessible and simple language,covering aspects of the law that the public interact with in their daily lives.

D-Cent

Barcelona, Spain

D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.

Mon Avis Citoyen

17 Rue Xaintrailles, 75013, Paris, France

Le site qui vous donne la parole

Online Deliberation Singapore (ODSG)

Lower Kent Ridge Road, National University of Singapore, Singapore

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

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Listening Post Collective

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

IssueVoter

United States of America (the)

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

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Madison

Washington, DC

Legislation and regulations that impact your life are written every day. With Madison, you can work directly with the sponsors of these documents.

Charles F. Kettering Foundation

Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.

Wahlkabine.at

Austria (Österreich)

Österreichs erfolgreichste Politik-Orientierungshilfe im Internet

Composites Collective

New York City

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

Assembl

Paris, France

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

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Jamnevisi

Tehran

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

Megaphone podcast

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

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bluenove

Levallois-Perret, France

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

Association Civic Tech Europe

Mailfence

Rue Middelbourg, Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

Tech for Good

14-22 Elder Street, London E1 6BT, United Kingdom

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

cocounsel.co

CO/COUNSEl making the law accessible through crowdsourced legal maps. Browse the law in a map or in the easy-to-use columns. Contribute and be recognized. Become a thought leader in your field. Be a hero! Free the law and help make the nation a fairer place.

Delib Suite

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

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

Human Agency

St Louis, MO

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

NeosLab

Vienna

Das NEOS Lab, die Parteiakademie der NEOS, schafft Raum für politische Entfaltung, um neue Lösungen für eine neue Politik zu entwickeln.

Marsad Majles

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie

“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).

OGP Toolbox

France

The OGP Toolbox is a free software initially developed by Etalab, the Prime Minister taskforce in charge of open data and open government French policy, on behalf of the Open Government Partnership community.

Nos Sénateurs

Toulouse, France

Observatoire citoyen de l'activité parlementaire au Sénat

Participation 2.0? Crowdsourcing Participatory Development @ DFID

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

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Project Open Data (Obama Administration)

United States of America (the)

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

Participa Portugal

Portugal

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

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Media Research & Action Project (MRAP)

The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.

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Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.