Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Deliberatorium is a web-based system that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to address this critical challenge. Under development since 2007, it has been used by thousands of individuals in such institutions as Intel, the Federal Bureau of Land Management, and the Italian Democratic Party.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat

• Participatory budgeting

A digital platform for the public to message Chinese leaders, operated by People's Daily Online

• Communicating with the government

A digital platform for reaching local leaders

• Communicating with the government

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

The Metagovernance Project is an interdisciplinary research collective. We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance. Our

• Decentralization

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

• trainings

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Digital literacy

German digital debates program sponsored by YouTube

• YouTube

• Debate
• Shows and films

Latvian survey + group decision-making tool

• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Web design company

• Social impact design firms

Open planning platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

OpenGov's tool to supplement public hearings with surveys, forums, and online meetings.

• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Democrasoft’s mission is to make a significant and lasting contribution to our world. Now we’ve taken the essence of our Collaborize platform, and extended it by making it “portable.” We call this new form the WeJIT – a very simple, but extremely powerful online collaboration tool that goes anywhere.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Reimagining Caribbean Society in the Digital Age

• Civic and social impact companies

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

A hardware table that lets people gather around it for collective decision-making processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Hardware

Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs. The aim of TICTeC Labs is to discuss and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the global civic tech/digital democracy sector.  We want to grow the civic tech evidence base, address issues, and enhance the effectiveness and potential impact of civic tech projects.

• Conferences

Participatory process facilitators and partners

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Donnez votre avis sur des sujets de société qui vous tiennent à coeur en participant à nos consultations citoyennes. Ensemble, citoyens, associations et entreprises, définissons nos priorités et réalisons des changements concrets.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

The All-In-One platform for citizen-centric campaigns

• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools
• Campaign tools

medConfidential defends the confidentiality you desire for your medical records. Every use of data should be consensual, safe, and transparent. In matters of health and care, your relationship with your doctor is based on a very human spirit of confidentiality. Not the cold law of data protection.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Digital security and privacy

El Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos es una herramienta que permite acceder a datos abiertos de organismos públicos, academia, organizaciones de sociedad civil y empresas privadas.

• Open data publishing portals

Nexo is a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media organisation.

Rappler is an independent, digital-only social news network that leverages community and digital engagement to drive social change.

Fundación Vía Libre is a non-profit civil organisation established in Córdoba, Argentina, in 2000. Initially focused on Free Software public policies, dissemination of knowledge and sustainable development, the Foundation reoriented its mission to broader issues such as the impact and influence of digital technologies on Human Rights, with special attention to social, economic, and cultural rights and civil liberties.

• human rights

Poynter is a global leader in journalism that seeks to advance the growing movement of fact-checking around the world through education, dialogue, and digital storytelling.

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

Mideast Youth uses digital media to amplify voices in the Middle East and North Africa.

PPDC is a non-governmental organisation created to increase citizens' participation in governance processes in a way that improves the integrity of public and private sector processes.

The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.

• Conferences
• Journalism

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world. But for all the benefits, technological developments have created new threats to our human rights. ORG exists to raise awareness of these threats and challenge them through public campaigns, media commentary, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects.

Making All Voices Count was a programme that supported the development and spread of innovative approaches to fostering accountable, responsive governance – many of them using tools and platforms based on mobile phone and digital technologies.

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Group decision making

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

Public Sentiment helps decisionmakers solve local problems using genuine community engagement fueled by local community networks and powerful digital tools

• Digital participation platforms