Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Our end-to-end verifiable, secure, online election technology, proves the integrity of democratic processes and verifies the accuracy of voting results, without losing flexibility and ability for customization

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Sortition

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.

• trainings

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Cette plateforme permet d'adresser des pétitions à l'Assemblée nationale et de signer des pétitions déjà enregistrées. Les pétiti

• Decidim

• Govtech
• Petitions

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

The official citizen participation hub of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

• Organize campaigns
• Cybersecurity

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

• air quality
• Clean water and sanitation

• Crowdsourcing
• Smart Cities and sensors

O Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Congresso tem por objetivo contribuir para o avanço desta área de estudos através da constituição de um laboratório de pesquisas dedicado à investigação de diversas questões ligadas ao Congresso Nacional e Assembléias Legislativas, desde índices e taxas de coesão e disciplina, informações sobre trajetória política dos parlamentares, tramitação de políticas públicas e problemas de organização interna Ocasionalmente, o Núcleo promove seminários nacionais ou internacionais, publicações de boletins e relatório de acompanhamento de conjuntura Ademais, serve de apoio sistemático ao desenvolvimento dos trabalhos de tese de mestrado e doutorado de alunos envolvidos com temas afins.

• Research and policy centers
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

Citizens' movement to practice democracy by sortition. Notable twist includes winning a seat in Brussels Parliament, where their elected representative must act on behalf of 50 residents chosen by lot.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Democratic Innovations

Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform

• Advocacy tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

We provide a simple search tool for state and federal legislation and regulations and assemble your results into a spreadsheet-style grid for you to view and enjoy.

• apps

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space. It was formally signed during the 74th UN General Assembly in September 2019.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• Participatory democracy

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

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Parliamentary Initiative to open the National Assembly to citizens and the civic tech community

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We are working on medical devices, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year. These happen simultaneously in five different locations across Australia. Over the course of 48 hours, teams assemble around our changemakers to work fast and furious, have fun, and create real social impact. It's an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment to help create innovative technology solutions to social problems.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech