In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

• Artificial Intelligence

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Citizen Engagement

aula is a completely new way of thinking about what participation means, offering young people the chance to play an active part in shaping the world around them. Our online platform and learning resources (click here) promote a better understanding of democracy and develop the skills needed to participate in it.

• students

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

CIVIX is a non-partisan, national registered charity dedicated to building the skills and habits of active and engaged citizenship among young Canadians. The vision is a strong and inclusive democracy where all young people are ready, willing and able to participate. CIVIX was born through a merger between Operation Dialogue and Student Vote – two non-partisan organizations with a significant history of engaging Canadian youth.

• Civic literacy

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.

Easily bring people together for important, small-group conversations. Book a live demo!

• Group communication tools

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

We are seeking social entrepreneurs who have bold ideas to solve some of the most pressing global challenges and are willing to translate their passion and beliefs into a tangible model to empower social change. Ready to change the world? Take the leap with the Halcyon Incubator! Click the link below to apply. After evaluating all applications, the Selection Committee will select finalists who will be asked to participate in virtual pitches for inclusion in the program. The final Fellows will be selected from that group.

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots. g0v’s biennial summits started in 2014, featuring open government, open source collaboration and civic participation.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

The place where you can make a difference

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy

an ingenious tool that lets Zambian citizens participate in the country’s ongoing constitution-drafting process—effectively allowing almost any Zambian adult to help forge the nation.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A web forum that elevates your community's opinions. Civil and organized discussion even when hundreds of stakeholders participate.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

This site will help you find and participate in consultations that interest you

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Code for OKC is an all volunteer group and we’d love to have you participate in any way that you can.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open data meetup

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Basic 'About' page pointing to the network's mailing list and events

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Internews, an international nonprofit organization, empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Wenadata is a web-based, mobile-based and offline tool which gathers statistical data, and works with government, private sector companies and other institutions to help them collect opinions and help make better strategic decisions for citizens. The platform works as an integrated opinion platform where everyone contributes to a more informed, knowledgeable,participatory and supportive country by taking part in campaigns, polls and surveys on issues ranging from sport, politics, culture, housing, education and many more. By partiicpating in the campaigns citizens are rewarded through points which they can redeem for offers and they can also participate in paid surveys. It won the Maputo Seedstars in 2018.

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Know Your Budget is an initiative committed to giving Ugandan citizens access to timely and accurate budget information, and real opportunities to participate in government budget processes. You can learn about the Budget process on the Budget Basics pages. You can access and download budget and expenditure data through the Budget Dashboard. You can access published government documents through the Budget Library.

• Budget explorers

Public.Ideavibes gives you the power to engage your community or participate in what matters to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

Fluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.

• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

Vote Forward volunteers encourage fellow citizens to participate in our democracy by writing and sending letters at their own expense. A diverse community of more than 150,000 volunteers from all over the country has written letters in 2020.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech