Spendrise is a platform for creating positive change everywhere you spend money. Speak up as a paying customer and help businesses you love become even better.

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Civiciti is a participation platform for continuous democracy. We help citizens, public administrations and organisations around the world discover, discuss and decide on the issues they care about.

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a novel about democracy in the age of algorithms

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Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

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Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

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Anonymous Voting at Work, School, and Play :)

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Cosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.

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Civic Tech Sweden is a network of people working with technology for the common good and digital tools for community, democracy, and transparency.

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One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

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Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government [Gavin Newsom, Lisa Dickey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. “A fascinating case for a more engaged government, transformed to meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century.” —President William J. Clinton A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age

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Collaborative writing of laws

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This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab

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In this panel called Citizen Observatory, a group of people chosen at random will approach and provide solutions to key issues for the life of the citizens of Madrid.

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A través de SeamOS, podremos sentar un voto de opinión sobre las propuestas que se presentan en el Concejo de Bogota.

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An Adhocracy-powered engagement campaign for Berlin. Kooperativer Ideenworkshop Zur Zukunft Des Wohnens

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WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy. This is an original initiative of the L’Africaine d´architecture, a platform that “anchored modernity”, which are attempts to make Africa the next technology revolution hub and was established by Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou.

“Otgovariat.bg” е платформа, чиято главна цел е укрепването на демократичния процес в България чрез създаване на онлайн комуникационен канал, свързващ българските политици и гражданите.

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An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

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Google Sheet last updated 2017

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Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

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Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.

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GoFundMe: The most trusted free online fundraising platform. Start a successful crowdfunding campaign on the site with over $5 Billion Raised. Read our guarantee!

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PeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.

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Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

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HandUp makes giving to nonprofit organizations and their clients easy, secure and transparent -- and your donation goes directly to the cause. We partner with nonprofits whose mission is to serve those experiencing poverty. Every donation, small or large, can have a huge impact on a person's life.

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Eric Cantor's legislation-tracking platform, built on Facebook

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Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

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Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

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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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The Polish constitution, online

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The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

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a citizen engagement platform for local government

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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.

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

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

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• Crowdsourcing
• Civic data

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

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

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

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• Communicating with the people

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

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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. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

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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.

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The skill-sharing network for government & civic innovators worldwide

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Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

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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.

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

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Put technology at the service of the general interest

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

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Tech volunteers and activists.

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Intelligence driving public sector performance

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