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

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

The easy way to match points to boundaries

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

Manages Italy's public services app and electronic payments platform. PagoPA S.p.A. è una società pubblica ad alto livello specialistico, che ha la mission di diffondere i servizi pubblici digitali attraverso lo sviluppo di progetti innovativi e la gestione di infrastrutture tecnologiche strategiche per accompagnare la modernizzazione della Pubblica Amministrazione e del Paese.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft. PROTESTORY! bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit Protesten der Arbeiter:innenjugend vom 20. Jahrhundert bis heute und macht jugendkulturellen Protest digital erlebbar und historisches Wissen nutzbar. (As a web application PROTESTORY! offers a playful exploration of the protest cultures of working-class youth since the early 20th century and was created in collaboration with the archive of the working-class youth movement in 2022.)

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

• Social media
• Mastodon

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Blockchain
• Democratic Innovations

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

Fast group decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Advertising

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Rocking the vote in France

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Voter registration

O COLAB é um centro de pesquisa que atua também no desenvolvimento de software e na formação de pessoas.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Civic apps outfits

We are a small digital studio doing product design, implementation, and new projects.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

We are looking for a diverse group of residents in the city of Detroit to participate in the testing of civic apps/websites! Sign up for the Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) now and tell your friends!

• User research
• User research groups

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

Metro Detroit's Community Data Hub

• coop

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Civic apps outfits

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Service alerts
• Consumer watchdogging

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

#ISOJ is the official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It features articles based on original research, methodologies relevant to the study of journalism and innovative technologies (online, tablets, mobile platforms, etc.), critical syntheses of research and theoretical perspectives on journalism today.

• Media
• Academia
• Journalism

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

The standards explicitly define excellent U.S. election administration.

• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards
• Election administration

Connect WhatsApp with your CRM

• WhatsApp
• commercial

• CRM
• Group communication tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

Reporter is an iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable.

• apps

• Surveys & polling

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning