The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Bureaucracy tech

"a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues."

• Graveyard
• Civic forums

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Government transparency

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Comprometidos con los asuntos públicos, trabajamos en el Desarrollo y Aplicación de herramientas para sociedades más democráticas, participativas e inclusivas.

• rural

• Citizen Engagement

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Wir sind ein zivilgesellschaftlicher, überparteilicher Think & Do Tank für losbasierte Bürgerbeteiligung. Wir initiieren geloste Bürgerräte kommunal, im Wahlkreis, national und sogar in öffentlichen Institutionen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Sortition

You want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Digital participation platform for the Icelandic Pirate party

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Daisychain helps progressive organizations engage their audiences through powerful workflows and authentic conversations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

Write to elected officials in Czechia

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government

We connect, engage and mobilise communities through online volunteering to impact global issues.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Nonprofit tech
• Manage volunteers

Mobilize communities, raise money, and engage supporters with tools built for teams just like yours.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Communicating with the people

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making. Our Services

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Civic data
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Brave Conversations seeks to explore the inter-relationship betweens humans, society and technology - as we develop smart tecnologies we need to become smarter humans!

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data