Civic Tech Field Guide

Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

United Nations Avenue Nairobi, Kenya 00100

We, the undersigned cities, formally come together to form the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, to protect and uphold human rights on the internet at the local and global level.

Mon Elu

Mali

"Mon Elu" connects citizens to elected officials to catalyze citizen participation and promote participatory democracy https://www.facebook.com/MonElu223/

Licracy

Gottschedstraße 37, 13357 Berlin, Germany

Open Data meets Liquid Democracy

Participation Factory

Prague, Czechia

Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.

LegislationLab

Kyiv

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

Your Priorities applies AI

Reykjavík, Iceland

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

Le coup d'État citoyen

9 bis, rue Abel-Hovelacque - 75013 Paris

It opens avenues for reflection to renew our democracy and offers concrete solutions that everyone can take up.

Latinno

Berlin

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

Baratunde's Tech Manifesto

The stories turn up daily: Social media is being used to undermine democracy. Someone has run off with millions of Social Security numbers stored by a major financial institution. Internet service…

Popvox Legidash

Bay Area, CA, USA

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

Bologna Neighborhood workshops

Bologna, Italy

Con i Laboratori potrai segnalare, creare e far votare proposte per il tuo quartiere: contattaci o vieni agli incontri, per lavorare insieme a tecnici del Comune di Bologna ed esperti di coprogettazione.

Goteo

Goteo is an open network for crowdfunding, collaborations and training, leader in social innovation. With 2 rounds and fiscal advantages for donors!

Extituto

Bogotá

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

Sovereign

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

Vote Matrix

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

TheyWorkforYou

TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

Mi Medellín

Medellín, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Ahora los ciudadanos de Medellín tenemos un espacio para compartir ideas y asumir retos frente a temas de ciudad: #MiMedellín

Civic Innovation Slack

An online forum for community discussion

Partecipa

Bologna, Italy

Partecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.

Smartvote

Switzerland

smartvote BePart ist eine partizipative Plattform. Über diese Plattform können Bürger/-innen aktiv an der Gestaltung des smartvote-Fragebogens für ihre Wahl teilnehmen und ihre eigenen Ideen und Fragen einbringen.

Watchout Issues Lab

Taiwan

Watchout is dedicated to lower the threshold of civic participation so that more can understand and engage in our political processes to make Taiwan a better nation. If every citizen keep a watchful eye open, we can make politicians serve the interest of the public, and our civil society can flourish.

una nova constitucio

Catalonia (Spain)

Here you can find the Catalan Constitution draft that has been written by the group of jurists led by Santiago Vidal. Help us and give us your opinion on the different articles. Your opinion counts!

GovRight

Kyiv

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

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

Press Start

CrowdJustice

CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform that enables individuals, groups and communities to come together to fund legal action.

ePaństwo Foundation

Fundacja ePaństwo, Warsaw, Poland

ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

CivicBudget

Europe

Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.

LaunchGood

Detroit, MI

Crowdfunding Incredible Muslims

racial equity

Nyaaya

Defence Colony, New Delhi, Delhi 110024, India

Nyaaya’s platform provides comprehensive information on various legal topics in an accessible and simple language,covering aspects of the law that the public interact with in their daily lives.

D-Cent

Barcelona, Spain

D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.

Monavis Citoyen

17 Rue Xaintrailles, 75013, Paris, France

Le site qui vous donne la parole

Deliberative Media Initiative Lab

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

Ignition Deck WordPress plugin

IgnitionDeck is the world's most popular WordPress crowdfunding plugin. Includes free WordPress Crowdfunding Theme. Integrates with Paypal, Stripe, Mailchimp.

Wordpress

The Human Utility

287 Lester Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606, USA

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

Clean water and sanitation

Konveio

1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202, USA

Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

Transparencia

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Transparencia is a platform for access to administrative documents (subsidies, public markets, etc.) developed by Anticor Belgium

Hamdam

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

Your Priorities

Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

Mexico City Crowdsourcing a Constitution: case study

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

Project Galileo

101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107

If you are an organization working in the arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get Cloudflare’s cybersecurity protection

civic features

Change Research

San Francisco

Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win

CityScope Champs-Élysée

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, boulevard Morland, Paris, France

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

urban planning

ConsultVox

EuraTechnologies, 165, Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, France

Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence

Collab

Collab is a prototype built by Sidewalk Labs and Digital Public Square to help break through barriers and help people participate from anywhere, at anytime