The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

We provide the expertise and infrastructure to turn ideas into real world change.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit (PEU) proactively connects New Yorkers to key City services, like housing and healthcare.

• Good health and well-being
• housing
• translation

• Canvassing

The Public Engagement Strategy Lab will provide you with the tools and resources you need to authentically engage stakeholders in thoughtful, democratic processes. Registration closes June 16th. Frontiers of Democracy registrants and students enjoy a discounted rate. **NOTE: Door payments must be paid by check only.**

• workshops

• Workshops

We are an applied research lab dedicated to innovating the ways people participate in civic life and expanding the study of citizenship in a digital era.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• Microsoft

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

University of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Story-based campaigns

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Reading lists

An Evaluation of Digital Gaming Platforms on Civic Capacity and Collective Action in the Boston Public School District

• The People
• Evaluate impact

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Digital participation platforms

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Voter outreach

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

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Phone banking tools

Podcast by CitizenLab

• Learn about civic tech
• Engagement tech
• Podcasts

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• E-voting and I-voting

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Villageois 2.0 est une association qui a pour objectif de sensibiliser les citoyens des différentes localités de la Guinée sur les avantages et risques des TIC.

• Citizen Engagement

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Media and social media analysis

We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Conferences

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• cities
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

A texting hotline promoting education for peace

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Israel Palestine

• Peer to peer SMS
• Polarization
• Pro bono and volunteer

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Learn about civic tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

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

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

• cities
• local

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Digital literacy