Civic Tech Field Guide

AI Elections Initiative

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

Participate Practically

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

Open Terms Archive

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

Digital Action

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

human rights

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

guides

National Civic League

Washington, DC

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

Octree

Geneva, Switzerland

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

Cities and Digital Human Rights

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

cities

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

London

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

human rights

Peer networks

Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence

Barcelona, Spain

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

cities

Radworks

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

Parla

Berlin

Dieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.

DOLL Living Lab

Copenhagen

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

cities

Defacto.md

The Republic of Moldova (Moldova)

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

Javna rasprava Lokal

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

Projekat Populus

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина)

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

Lokalni Index Otvorenosti

“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.

E-peticija

E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.

Borde (Edge)

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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

Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook

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.

Understanding the social impact of the National Data Strategy

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

Government Digital Services Discovery into Consultations

Over 60 people were interviewed to help understand the user needs of digital consultations.

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

The State of Digital Public Engagement

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

Quadratic Vote

Real-time Quadratic Voting dashboard to encourage mathematically optimal voting in democratic communities.

U.S. Public Assembly on High Risk Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Syracuse, NY

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.

PROTESTORY!

Germany (Deutschland)

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

MobileCit

Latvia (Latvija)

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

immigration

Urban Analyst

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

OpenAustralia.org

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

Recursive Public

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

AI • Objectives • Institute

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

Nets4Dem

Berlin

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.