Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

• Surveys & polling
• Communicating with the people

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting
• Civic tech catalogs

The Liberating Voices pattern language is intended to help us develop the social imagination we need to better face the future as engaged and empowered citizens. Browse the patterns in the book or see all of the patterns in the pool environment.

• Fieldwide resources

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.

• Fellowships

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• cities
• place-based

• Archives
• Artistic interventions

Act Hub Africa is a ‌civic-tech‌ ‌NGO‌ ‌that‌ ‌works‌ ‌to‌ promote ‌good governance, democracy, ensure‌ ‌openness‌ ‌and‌ ‌transparency‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌governments‌ ‌by‌ ‌making‌ ‌their‌ ‌fiscal data‌ ‌available‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌simplified,‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌understand‌ ‌form‌ ‌and‌ ‌engage‌ ‌people‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌government‌ ‌areas‌ ‌on‌ ‌how‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌them‌ ‌in‌ ‌engaging‌ ‌their‌ ‌political‌ ‌officeholders

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.

• Podcasts

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

An engagement program

• homelessness
• crime
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Speech recognition

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Vote by Mail

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Participatory memorials
• Crowdsourcing

Civin specializes in working with state and local governments and other public sector agencies to build data-driven programs that deliver lasting value.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

• trainings

• Engagement tech

Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

• Archives
• COVID Engagement Projects

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Imagine the Possibilities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

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

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Modular Contracting and Agile Development in government.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

• commercial

• Playbooks and design principles
• Building in the private sector

Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Ghidul complet al alegerilor parlamentare din 11 decembrie. Compară aici candidații la alegerile parlamentare, programele de guvernare si orientarile ideologice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Im Zuge der Erstellung der Digitalen Agenda Wien kristallisierten sich neun Leitmotive für das Denken und Handeln aller Beteiligten heraus.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Find organizations, chapters, and groups that are leading the progressive movement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

• Participatory memorials
• COVID Engagement Projects

Alia is an online platform to help house cleaners get benefits.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech

Tactical voting against the Tories.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy