Civic Tech Field Guide

IncluCity Calgary

Calgary, AB, Canada

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

Global

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

guides

Digital participation platforms

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

I Take Actions

Abuja, Nigeria

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

GovSight

14110 Rocky Valley Dr, Centreville, VA, USA

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

local

C3PLACES

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

public space

Rep'd, Inc.

United States of America (the)

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

Report: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem - United States Department of State

Russian Federation (the)

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

Fight disinformation

Forward Games

Games and gamification for local engagement

Games and gamification

Report: AI Governance in Southeast Asia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

Artificial Intelligence

The State of Digital Rights in Indonesia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Report by EngageMedia

Digital rights

민주주의 서울 (Democracy Seoul)

Seoul

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

What Works Cities

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.

vTaiwan presentation

An overview of the vTaiwan process

Engagement tech

g0v Taiwan

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

Consul's Slack

Amsterdam

An online forum to discuss the CONSUL engagement platform

CONSUL

Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Cortico

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

Loomio Cooperative Limited

New Zealand

Parent company of the Loomio tool

IBTYKAR

Algeria (Dzayer)

IBTYKAR, MOUVEMENT POLITIQUE & CITOYEN

Graveyard

BetaNYC

Manhattan Borough President

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

Civic hacking meetups

Audrey Tang: Stories from the Future of Democracy

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

Pocket Change

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

YouTube

ParrotIT

2nd Floor, Adepate House, 48 Montgomery Road Lagos Nigeria

Nigerian issue reporting platform

Issue reporting

J++

Stockholm

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

Citizink

Málaga (Spain)

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

IBM Project Debater

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.

IBM

Decidim Census

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

Decidim

Legislative Theater with the Residents of Mulhouse, France

Mulhouse

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

The Deliberatorium

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Deliberatorium is a web-based system that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to address this critical challenge. Under development since 2007, it has been used by thousands of individuals in such institutions as Intel, the Federal Bureau of Land Management, and the Italian Democratic Party.

Quorum

Washington, DC

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

Lobbying

Participace 21

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

Cocoriko

58 Old Chelsea road, suite 101 Chelsea, Quebec J9B 0C9

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

Mobilní Rozhlas

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

apps

Just Tech Fellowship

United States of America (the)

The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.

Abre Alcaldías

Latin America

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

trainings

Rahvaalgatus.ee

Tallinn

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

Crowdbrite

Open planning platform

VividMaps

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.