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

• Crowdsourcing

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Vote Forward volunteers encourage fellow citizens to participate in our democracy by writing and sending letters at their own expense. A diverse community of more than 150,000 volunteers from all over the country has written letters in 2020.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Système D propulse les projets innovants qui améliorent la démocratie grâce à un programme d'accompagnement gratuit de 6 mois.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

The election is ours

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Google Sheet budget

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

The WeVote app is a one stop shop to learn about the candidates and your voting rights and responsibilities, act on Election Day by voting or volunteering and share events you plan to attend and materials you have read.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

The skill-sharing network for government & civic innovators worldwide

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

This latest edition of the World e-Parliament Report follows up on previous findings and identifies major steps forward in how parliaments are using information and communication technologies (ICT) to engage with citizens.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

a citizen engagement platform for local government

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

• case studies

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Este observatório pretende constituir-se como um centro de recursos para o conhecimento dos processos participativos existentes em Portugal.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Put technology at the service of the general interest

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Videos showing the democratic process

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

Tech volunteers and activists.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer

Intelligence driving public sector performance

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

BERiDE is where people can share their ideas to develop the city in any way. / Ide Anda dapat Menjadikan Jakarta Lebih Baik, Ayo Kolaborasi Bersama

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Par­lia­ment Watch is a non-profit or­ga­ni­za­tion that mon­i­tors and re­ports on the work of the Par­lia­ment of Uganda

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We believe that everyone has a story and can contribute to the news narrative. Tipster is a news sharing platform that is democratizing the news making business by placing the power of the media into the hands of ordinary people whom we call Tipstars

• News to action

Municipal open challenge program

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

• harassment

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Change by Us is a place for citizens to put ideas into action to make their city a better place to live.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Amandla.mobi is a platform that aims to "turn every cellphone in South Africa into a democracy tool" by using Whatsapp, SMS, USSD, Web and social networking to run multi-issue and multilingual campaigns so that people can connect and call for accountability on various matters.

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

One of South America's leading campaign and tech organizations

• trainings
• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Campaign organizations

Digidem Lab skapar framtidens processer för demokratiskt deltagande. Vi sätter nya verktyg för kollektiv intelligens i dina händer.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

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

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

The Legislative Monitor is a user-friendly interactive tool that provides a unique insight into the adoption of legislation in Slovenia and a review of the activities of Members of the National Assembly.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a case study by GovLab

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy