Budget visualization tool for municipalities. Already in use in Budapest XIV and many other municipalities.

• Budget explorers

A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.

• Engagement tech
• Budget explorers
• Policy simulators

Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Data visualization and exploration tool for the Taiwanese Central Government General Budget

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Media
• Budget explorers

Participatory budgeting software for local government

• Participatory budgeting

City of Austin, TX program

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Website was started by transparency NGO Public Knowledge Workshop to present the budget in a user-friendly, easier-to-understand format.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Budget and financial transparency visualization tool for NGOs.

• Budget explorers
• Internal budgeting tools

This toolbox provides support to local governments that are interested in creating a Citizens Budget. It contains the basic steps in the process and inspiring examples, which fully equips the reader to start developing their own Citizen Budget.

• Govtech
• Budget explorers

• Graveyard
• Budget explorers

International Budget Partnership works globally to make budgets work for all people.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

• Climate action

• Participatory budgeting
• Courses

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• Participatory budgeting
• SMS tools

Filterable map view of NYC's participatory budgeting projects across the city

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• Mapping

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Paris Participatory Budget

• Participatory budgeting

Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

An interactive website that asks residents to balance their city budget

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

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

A toolbox for analyzing and visualizing public budget data as well as support participatory budgeting

• Data visualization
• Budget explorers
• Participatory budgeting

Open-source budget visualization framework

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Marsad Budget is a continuation of Al Bawsala's work, which is based on monitoring the various institutions in charge of managing state affairs and the consecration of the principle of transparency and thus making available to the citizen, simplified and accessible information on the state budget

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

• Participatory budgeting

Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.

• toolkits

• The People
• Build something
• Participatory budgeting

Access to the national budget is every citizen's right.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory budgeting

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting

Twaweza works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It has programs, staff and offices across all three countries, and a world respected practice of learning, monitoring and evaluation. It's flagship programs include Uwezo, Africa’s largest annual citizen assessment to assess children’s learning levels across hundreds of thousands of households, and Sauti za Wananchi, Africa’s first nationally representative mobile phone survey. It undertake effective public and policy engagement, through powerful media partnerships and global leadership of initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership.

• Budget explorers

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

每年財務委員會審核財政年度開支預算的問題及書面答覆資料庫 / Annual financial committee review of fiscal year budget estimates and written response database

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

• The Tech
• Participatory budgeting

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Government transparency

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

South Korean fact-checking organization, supported by government during the pandemic but now shut down

• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard
• Factchecking

Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting