Civic Tech Field Guide

Answering the Call candidate training

9 East St, Boston, Massachusetts

Answering the Call, a leadership development experience designed to help service alumni explore their interest in potentially seeking political office.

Place Speak

New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADA

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

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LegislationLab

Kyiv

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

ElectionDay.org

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

BallotReady

Chicago, IL

BallotReady is an online voter guide to local elections. We make it easy to vote informed on every candidate all across America.

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Campaign Together

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

Democracy Works

Brooklyn, NY

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that voting should fit the way we live.

Civic and social impact companies

Run for Office

Search for elected offices across the USA.

Sovereign

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

Vote Matrix

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

Horizon State

Horizon State is about unlocking the power of communities to drive organisations forward.

On The Issues

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.

Twitter Vote Report

United States of America (the)

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)

Sponsor the Vote

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

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Vote Match

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Vote Match is an online voter quiz which matches users to the political party that best represents their views in an election, based on the issues which they select as most important.

Opinary

Engeldamm 62-64, 10179 Berlin, Germany

We are not just a widget – we are THE platform for brands to scale content marketing and insight

Election performance index

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Elections Performance Index (EPI) compares election administration policy and performance across the states and from one election cycle to the next.

MeRepresenta

Brazil (Brasil)

Somos uma união de coletivos formados por mulheres, pessoas negras e LGBT+ com o objetivo de diminuir a distância entre eleitoras/es e candidatas/os comprometidas/os com os direitos sociais, civis e políticos da população.

CHVote

Geneva, Switzerland

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

Landslide 2020

Shows best ways to vote by state that ensures your vote is counted ON Election Day

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Democracy Kit

Outreach Circle (formerly VoterCircle)

Los Angeles, CA

Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere

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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

Vot Corect

Romania

Voter assistance portal for Romanians

Who can I vote for UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Find out about candidates in your area

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.

WahlOMeter

Germany (Deutschland)

Der Wahlometer will den Datenschatz der Wahl-O-Maten heben, indem die Daten möglichst niederschwellig zugänglich gemacht werden.

OmaStad Game

Helsinki, Finland

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

Swap my Vote

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Platform that allows voting partners to make their votes count in a different constituency, where each voter’s first preference has a better chance of winning a seat

Election data gathering parties

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

Participatory Budgeting Project

Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

People Powered

Chefs for the Polls

United States of America (the)

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

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Swing Left

The 2018 midterm elections are our next chance to get a say in our government. We can stop the Trump agenda by joining together NOW, wherever we live.

Deciding Vote

Portland, OR

See how you match with political candidates based on the issues you care about

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Votez.info

Romania

Map the Vote

Help your neighbors register to vote.

Every Vote In

This easy-to-use tool from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office will guide you through the ways you can cast your ballot safely in 2020.

US Election 2020

Brookings Democracy Dashboard

Brookings Institution, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

MiVote

Democracy Works Elections API

Brooklyn, NY

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

Open Australia Foundation

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

ElectionGuard

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

Brigade

San Francisco

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.