Civic Tech Field Guide

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United States of America (the)

Commercial law lookup tool

coUrbanize

33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USA

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

Ballot Information Project

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

VoteTocracy

Discover the web's most comprehensive professional resource on Congress. 2014 WebbyAward Winner. Vote on bills and send your message to Congress.

Textizen

Bay Area, CA, USA

Textizen is a mobile platform dedicated to connecting difficult-to-reach audiences with the public institutions that serve them in scalable, efficient ways.

youth

RapidPro

Nyaruka, Kigali, Rwanda

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

Streetmix

Philadelphia

Civic engagement for street design

mobility

Berkeley City Council municipal bonds civic crowdfunding

Berkeley

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

PERSONAL DATA: POLITICAL PERSUASION

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

Center for Civic Design

78 Washington Ave, High Bridge, NJ 08829, USA

Democracy is a design problem

US Election 2020

NY Senate Bill Alerts

New York, USA

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

Wahl-O-Mat

Germany (Deutschland)

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

Open Web Fellowship

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

Ethelo

Vancouver

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

The Center for Social Media and Politics

70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USA

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

Sortition Foundation

Cambridge, UK

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

Knomos

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

AmericaSpeaks

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

New Media Ventures

San Francisco

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

Ki Mit Tud

Hungary (Magyarország)

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

Alaveteli

Nu vă supărați

Romania

An Alaveteli instance for Romania

Alaveteli

Cobi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.

Practical Participation

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology

Startnext

Startnext ist die größte Crowdfunding-Plattform in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz für Projekte von Gründern, Erfindern und Kreativen. Entdecke neue Ideen oder finanziere dein Projekt!

Mudamos signature collection app

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

Rousseau

Italy (Italia)

The original direct democracy decision-making site for the Italian Five Star Movement

partisan

Constitution App

Zambia

an ingenious tool that lets Zambian citizens participate in the country’s ongoing constitution-drafting process—effectively allowing almost any Zambian adult to help forge the nation.

apps

Stig

Paris

Stig est une application gratuite qui permet aux citoyens de construire ensemble la volonté générale à l'échelle de la France ainsi qu'à l'échelle locale.

Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

487 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

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cities

Localocracy

Huffington Post, owned by AOL, acquired the grassroots-engagement website Localocracy and plans to launch four more sites this week.

CoBudget

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.

LABHacker

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

Brazil's parliamentary innovation unit

Zilino

California

Zilino is the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

DecidimFest

Barcelona, Spain

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

Decidim

The Free Speech Project

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

Portal Legislativ

Romania

Pagina de start - Portal Legislativ

They Vote For You

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Discover how your MP votes on the issues that matter to you.

Neighborly

Neighborly delivers access, efficiency and transparency to borrowing communities and investors in the municipal bond market.

Consider.it

Portland, OR

A web forum that elevates your community's opinions. Civil and organized discussion even when hundreds of stakeholders participate.

CrowdPAC

Start a new political campaign and begin crowdfunding in minutes. Support candidates and causes you agree with. Crowdpac is your home for impacting politics.

Javna Rasprava

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

The Hackable City

Amsterdam

The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.

Congress.gov

United States Capitol

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops

UN Habitat, Beirut, Lebanon

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

Forum Jurisprudence – Forum Bundesgericht (Switzerland) and Forum Bundesgerichtshof (Germany)

Regensbergstrasse 182, Zürich, Schweiz

„Forum Bundesgerichtshof“ ist eine private, politisch und konfessionell unabhängige Webseite, die es interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ermöglicht, alle Urteile des deutschen Bundesgerichtshofs öffentlich zu analysieren, zu kommentieren und darüber zu debattieren.