Civic Tech Field Guide
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The Center for New Data
United States of America (the)The Center for New Data is a non-profit using big data to build a stronger democracy.
ARIS engagement platform
KyrgyzstanA World Bank project forking the Your Priorities platform to meaningfully engage residents in Kyrgyzstan around a major development project
Creamos
Santiago, ChileEl Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.
Rosario Participa
Rosario, ArgentinaUnite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.
Long Beach Co-Lab
Long Beach, CAThe LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.
Maino Tech
Helsinki, FinlandWe provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making. Our Services
Ampliando Democracia
Madrid (Spain)Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.
Queremosdatos.co
BogotáTodos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)
Sequent
Los Angeles, CASequent is a next-generation online voting platform purposely built to ensure the highest level of confidence in digital elections for election managers, voters and auditors
MyCandidate Nigeria
South AfricaThe MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
Portugal Participa Rede
PortugalA Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.
Alliance of Democracies
BrusselsThe Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
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El Avispero
BogotáWe are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.
by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)
Red Ciudadana
GuatemalaParticipación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
Partimap
Hungary (Magyarország)PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.
K-Monitor
Hungary (Magyarország)We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.
LocalView
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USALocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.
Canòdrom
Carrer Concepció Arenal 165 08027 Barcelona (Spain)Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital
E-Consultation Guide
Dublin, IrelandAn inactive wiki guide to e-consultation
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Israel"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Association Maidi
MadagascarMadagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation est une association à but non lucratif régie par l'Ordonnance n°60-133 du 03 octobre 1960. L'objectif est de promouvoir l' E-Democracy - l'Open Data et le Datajournalisme à Madagascar.
Sovereign Tech Fund
BerlinStrengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest
Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.
demokratie.today
Mühlleite 13, 91465 Ergersheim, GermanyDeutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
CONSUL für Schulen
GermanyGemeinsam für eine starke Schule
Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu
This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.
Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
Paris, FranceThe OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.
The People's Money
New York City, NY, USANYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.
Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.
Civic Tech Field Guide
LisbonThe Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
New Haven Independent
New Haven, CTThe New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality “stand-alone” and “hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.
Institutul European Pentru Democratie Participativa - Qvorum
150 Stirbei Voda Street, sector 1, BucharestEuropean Institute for Participative Democracy
BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity - we believe in media and communication for good. Last year, we reached more than 130 million people in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries. Our projects and programmes save lives, protect livelihoods, counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 public interest groups and trade unions concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.
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