Civic Tech Field Guide

voca

Geneva, Switzerland

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

Boti

Buenos Aires

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

Decision 21

Prague, Czechia

Online platform for civic participation

Association Civic Tech Europe

Plataforma de Articulación Comunitaria

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

Javna rasprava Lokal

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

Network-Centric Resources

Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.

Group decision making

Government Digital Services Discovery into Consultations

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Over 60 people were interviewed to help understand the user needs of digital consultations.

United Kingdom (government)

Collective Tech

How might tech support communities to carry out collective decision-making and collective design?

Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

Wikipedia

Find local consultations (Gov.UK)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

chatbot.team

Gurugram

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

commercial

Consejo Visible Bucaramanga (CVB)

Vouliwatch

Athens

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

U.S. Public Assembly on High Risk Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Syracuse, NY

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.

Civox Ashley

London

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

Civic Futures

United States of America (the)

A scratchpad for studying and imagining revived civic engagement in the 21st century.

MobileCit

Latvia (Latvija)

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

immigration

AI • Objectives • Institute

San Francisco

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

Talk to the City

San Francisco

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

The Computational Democracy Project

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

Polis

Nets4Dem

Berlin

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

Delib Citizen Space

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

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

Decisive Team

Fast group decision-making.

Match avec la démocratie

Paris, France

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

civic features

Gobierto

Spain (España)

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

Civic User Testing Network

Chicago, IL

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

Cleveland’s Civic User Testing Group

Cleveland, Ohio

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

Agora (France)

Paris, France

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

apps

Speakeasy.ai

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

Engaged Cities Community of Practice

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

Who Represents Me? NYC

New York City, NY, USA

Rep lookup tool for New York

Find your representatives

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence

Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USA

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to understand the impact of dominant narratives of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities most impacted, and aims to co-create interventions to change these narratives.

gun safety

Peticijos.lt

Lithuania (Lietuva)

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

Open Briefing

Cornwall

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

Polltix

Vilnius, Lithuania

A platform for the public sector to directly consult with the citizens.

MyCandidate

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

Safecity

United States of America (the)

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

HSD 598: Equity in Climate Action

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

Free Machine

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

Press Forward

United States of America (the)

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

Brasil Participativo

Brazil (Brasil)

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

reports

The Chanzo Initiative

United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.