Civic Tech Field Guide

Ohio State Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA)

Columbus, OH, USA

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

Bridge Alliance

Florida

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

Voice of the People's Policymaking Simulations

United States of America (the)

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

Policy simulators

We're Right Here

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

local

The Society Library

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

City-Level Decision-Making Tool

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

Iniciativa legislativa dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

Iniciativa de referendo dos cidadãos

Lisbon

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

Freedom of Expression, Artificial Intelligence & Elections MOOC

Austin, TX

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

2024 elections

Path to 2024 Polarization Report Series

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

reports

Polarization

America’s Political Pulse

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

AI Elections Initiative

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

Demos

London

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.

Research and policy centers

Participate Practically

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

Manifiesto por la ampliación de la democracia

Spain

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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

Digital Action

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

human rights

Civic Infrastructure Scan

Washington, DC

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

guides

National Civic League

Washington, DC

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

Octree

Geneva, Switzerland

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

London

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

human rights

Peer networks

Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence

Barcelona, Spain

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

cities

Parla

Berlin

Dieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.

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.

Projekat Populus

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

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

E-peticija

E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.

Borde (Edge)

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

Gender Equality

Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

Understanding the social impact of the National Data Strategy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

Government Digital Services Discovery into Consultations

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

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.

AI • Objectives • Institute

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.

OpenAustralia.org

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

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

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.