Find and contact your representatives at every level.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging government

I am a facilitator and engagement expert with a firm belief communities and stakeholders will find the best way forward together if given the chance to listen and be heard and if provided with the tools and processes to progress from the problem space to an agreed solution.

• Participatory democracy
• Building in the private sector
• Participation consultants

Datashades.info is a comprehensive search hub and discovery tool for the global CKAN community, designed to enhance the accessibility and usability of open data.

• CKAN

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open civic data

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

newDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Democratic Innovations

we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

emqnet delivers data-driven software built and supported by a team of resilience experts.

• Govtech
• Emergency services

As the peak body for the community and stakeholder engagement sector, IAP2 Australasia, believes that engagement, when done well, improves environmental, social and governance outcomes and increases trust in the democratic process.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Civic data APIs

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Urban planning
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Alaveteli instance for Australia

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Your one stop government solution shop

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Public Sector Network’s second Government Innovation California in-person event will bring together public sector leaders across all levels of government from across the State and region to share their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects.

• state

• Govtech
• Conferences

The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Deliberation

Public Sector Network is a social learning platform that exists to help government around the globe break down silos, collaborate, and work together for better outcomes for citizens.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

The Australian Ad Observatory project is enabling independent research into the role that algorithmically targeted advertising plays in society.

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

We connect, engage and mobilise communities through online volunteering to impact global issues.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Nonprofit tech
• Manage volunteers

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Story tech

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

Not-For-Profit & Community Jobs around Australia

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Transparency International Australia is is part of a global movement against corruption, working for a stronger democracy

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Digital transformation

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."

• Climate action

• Games and gamification

In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

• Artificial Intelligence

Report by EngageMedia

• Digital rights

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

An example of an issue campaign app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Pairing talented technologists with government change-makers to tackle complex social issues

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

Legal Aid Checker provides a guided pathway to information about common legal issues.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields