The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

200 years of UK Parliamentary speeches. This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries.

• Archives
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.

• Civic literacy

A global forum to discuss and debate digital transformation within the humanitarian sector, with a focus on data protection laws and humanitarian protection, policy, ethics and action.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• News and blogs

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Civic features
• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

A prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV

• extensions

• Factchecking
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Research and policy centers

AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Engagement tech

CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level. Our leaders have joined forces to create stronger and safer cities by driving the national debate, embracing new immigrants, and engaging with stakeholders to win on immigration policies.

Citiscope spurs innovations to help cities work better for all of their people through the power of independent journalism. We deliver: on-the-ground reporting by local journalists extensive coverage of global debates on the future of cities expert commentary and analysis

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

French association of consultation professionals for an innovative public debate.

• Engagement tech

Africa Check is an independent, non-profit fact-checking organisation that aims to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa.

• Factchecking

The Global Data Justice project focuses on the diverse debates and processes occurring around data governance in different regions, to draw out overarching principles and needs that can push data technologies’ governance in the direction of social justice.

InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy. Its goal is to conduct interdisciplinary impactful research and promote dialogue among academics, professionals and policymakers. They follow an entrepreneurial nonprofit model, which embraces a pursuit of producing scholarly research in the manner and spirit of an academic think tank. As a nexus of expertise in technology, public policy and social sciences, the research agenda covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, freedom of speech, gender and technology.

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Ballot information
• Engagement tech

Le Moteur de visualisation de données ouvertes convertie pour vous les données publiques en formes narratives de visualisation.

• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

Chatbot to understand public debate

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Big listening
• Citizen science

Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Du hast Ideen, die unser Land in eine bessere, gerechte Zukunft führen. Mutig und klar. Mit Lust auf morgen?

• Debate

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Debate
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

fortalecer los activismos innovadores y liderazgos emergentes de América Latina a través de la generación de espacios de encuentro y el debate, más la capacitación en herramientas de alto impacto a bajo costo.

• The People
• The Tech
• Govtech

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Big listening

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Civic forums
• Engagement tech

The original direct democracy decision-making site for the Italian Five Star Movement

• partisan

• Graveyard
• Group decision making
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.

• Reddit

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

• The Tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Engagement tech

„Forum Bundesgerichtshof“ ist eine private, politisch und konfessionell unabhängige Webseite, die es interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ermöglicht, alle Urteile des deutschen Bundesgerichtshofs öffentlich zu analysieren, zu kommentieren und darüber zu debattieren.

• Debate
• Justice tech
• Legal tech

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

• Media
• Factchecking
• Fight disinformation

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

Zgjidhni një nga Kuvendet në nivel kombëtar ose rajonal për t’u bërë pjesë e debateve publike mbi ligjet që janë në procedurë miratimi.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherDan Gillmor's Bayosphere citizen media project has been acquired by Backfence, a Vienna, Virginia based company that intends to use local communities to generate all online content and sell advertising around it.It is a logical move but it also shows that citizen media is not easy to do. Bayosphere did not...

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Dialectic.sg: Better debates for a better Singapore. Learn more about and discuss important policies facing us today.

• The Tech
• Civic forums
• Engagement tech

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Engagement tech

MoMobility is a fun, engaging card game designed to start constructive conversations, provoke collegial debate and inspire players to rethink our perceptions and attitudes around creating sustainable, equitable and joyful cities and transportation for all.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

We are not just a widget – we are THE platform for brands to scale content marketing and insight

• The Tech
• Matching views to votes
• Debate

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

Official online petitions in response to issues of the day, listing the number that got a Government response, and those that have been debated in the House of Parliament

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

We The People is the best place for politics, debate, news & your vote to count.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Missions Publiques is a high-impact social entrepreneur whose mission is to bring the voice of ordinary citizens into international and global discussions and negotiations on societal challenges through the organization of Citizens’ Debates.

• The People
• The Tech
• Build something

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Factchecking