Civic Tech Field Guide

Consensus.ai

Using signals gathered from citizens, either actively and passively, combined with available data sets, Consensus AI helps governments understand their citizens at a much deeper level.

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

Polis

United Humans

[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.

Decisive Team

Fast group decision-making.

Policy Lab UK

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings | Journal of Deliberative Democracy

Norway (Norge, Noreg)

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

Climate Democracy

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

Fulfilling the promise of e-procurement reform

Lessons from 5 African countries

reports

Procurement

Humanitarian Data and Trust Initiative

How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?

dem.os

A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project

Digital Public Goods Standard

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Partnerships for the Goals

Data schemas and standards

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

Kybern

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

Decentralization

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

How Cities Can Use Participatory Budgeting to Address Climate Change

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

Climate action

DATA Uruguay

Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

Fundación Directorio Legislativo

Av. Entre Rios 258 3E (1079 - Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires - Argentina)

Directorio Legislativo is an Argentina-based research and advocacy organisation focusing on legislative transparency, consensus building and research on current regulatory affairs.

Impact Management Project

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

Intertwinkles

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis is a 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