Transitioning Ireland to a society based on sustainable practices will require behavioural insights to influence change.
Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.
CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.
the project to develop the public services app
Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa
One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is. However, the health of any democratic society may be measured by the levels of engagement and inclusion of the private citizen. The Civic Hub is modelled as an accelerator to help social or civil intervention grow into systems for Citizens’ – Government engagement.
Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization
Good government in the 21st century means good technology. But often it seems too hard for new startups to get into the business of government, even though innovative public servants and entrepreneurs want to work together. That's where EthosLabs comes in.
Tunabakonzi is not an official site of the Congolese Government. It is a site built with the support of OSISA by Collectif 24, a platform of Congolese civil society organizations that advocates for the transparency of public action, citizen participation through the promotion and protection of civil society. right of access to information and freedom of expression. The site is built to help anyone like you to have information held by the Congolese authorities at the local, provincial and national levels. No more traveling to access public information.
A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.
Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels
Vizalytics creates custom contextual insights from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients. Our Knowledge Graph senses context for users based on their unique circumstances, draws targeted conclusions from disparate data sets, notifies users, and suggests how to react. The Knowledge Graph enables our customers and their users to go about their business, driven by data but free from the need to find and manage it.
Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.
For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.
Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.
Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd
Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.
The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions. By enabling citizens to text their views to a free short code, the approach allows for large-scale consultations and provides evidence of citizen’s opinions. AVF analyses these views using rigorous social science research and presents them in a form that supports policy action by authorities
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.
The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.
Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.
Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.
BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.
FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.
Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers
We want to support and strengthen the community of activists and advocacy organisations pushing for the transparency that is needed for citizens around the world to follow the money
Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations
With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.
Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government
DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.DSU's aim is to provide citizens with a quick tool for information and reportings about critical situations and disasters which they are witnessing.What do you find inside DSU app: - articles, news and official statements of the Department for Emergency Situations;- information about weather alerts, traffic alerts and natural disasters;- a section for reporting events which you are witnesses (fire, flood, accident i.e.);- a section for informing you about how to act effectively in critical situations and the behaviour you should adopt;- tests for verifying your knowledge.We are excited to provide this useful tool and hope you will enjoy using it.DSU TeamPS: Your feedback is important to us. We welcome and appreciate your opinions, suggestions and rankings.
Un mouvement citoyen indépendant et non partisan qui rassemble et mobilise dans l’action toutes celles et ceux qui veulent une France plus juste, égalitaire, démocratique et responsable
We gather citizen voices to improve public services
Nigeria's promise tracking website.
NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners
Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!
Innovating for democracy
The Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.