Civic Tech Field Guide

Digital Tools and Participatory Budgeting in Scotland

Scotland

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

VoteTocracy

Discover the web's most comprehensive professional resource on Congress. 2014 WebbyAward Winner. Vote on bills and send your message to Congress.

ConsultVox

EuraTechnologies, 165, Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, France

Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence

Boulder eligibility calculator

Boulder, CO

"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"

Collab

Collab is a prototype built by Sidewalk Labs and Digital Public Square to help break through barriers and help people participate from anywhere, at anytime

Dropzone for Veterans

CitySourced

CitySourced, Inc. 1642 Westwood Blvd. Penthouse Suite, Los Angeles, CA 90024

With CitySourced, you can deploy an unlimited number of applications to a single native app. From paying bills to election info to FAQs or newsletter signups - downloading a single app is easier for citizens, and it's easier for you!

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Votez.info

Romania

E-Democracy BeNeighbors study+

3211 E. 44th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406 USA

Countable

United States of America (the)

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

apps

Enview

Uses machine learning to track legislation and predict the best methods of advocating for them

Nova-Ideo

Nova-Ideo collects ideas and transforms them into implementable proposals

Sunlight Foundation Policy Guidelines for Open Contracting

Washington, DC

Last updated 2017

Ideascale

Berkeley

IdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, government, and education. Gather ideas and implement them.

Map the Vote

Help your neighbors register to vote.

Every Vote In

This easy-to-use tool from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office will guide you through the ways you can cast your ballot safely in 2020.

US Election 2020

DotGov.com

Founded in 2001 by technology experts, DotGov communications is the leading supplier of innovative communications solutions to government.

eyeWitness

IHELPYOU.app

Poland (Polska)

Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

Open Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Open Toledo focuses on civic technology and government technology, technologies that enhance civic engagement and help government run efficiently.

We The People – The Live Poll

We The People is the best place for politics, debate, news & your vote to count.

DebateWise

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

Threshold

Innovation you want, businesses you love

ElectionGuard

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

Brigade

San Francisco

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

apps

eCitizen Ideas!

Singapore

Short-lived ideas + funding platform by the Government of Singapore

CivLab

Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USA

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

Congress on anything

United States of America (the)

The latest bills and statements by members of Congress on the topics you care about - search the record

MiVote

Finland's Principles of Digitalisation

The digitalisation process in the public sector calls for overall principles that apply to all public services. They are the commonly agreed rules for developing public services.

Pennsylvania Broadband Test

Pennsylvania

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life. Without adequate study of the availability of broadband connectivity, policymakers are left in the dark as they design programs to modernize communications infrastructure and ensure that telecommunications companies provide broadband/Internet service at the minimum speeds required to take full advantage of online resource.

CivicHub

Nigeria

One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is. However, the health of any democratic society may be measured by the levels of engagement and inclusion of the private citizen. The Civic Hub is modelled as an accelerator to help social or civil intervention grow into systems for Citizens’ – Government engagement.

Democratic Society

15-17 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL, England, UK

Connecting people and power

Vizalytics

Vizalytics creates custom contextual insights from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients. Our Knowledge Graph senses context for users based on their unique circumstances, draws targeted conclusions from disparate data sets, notifies users, and suggests how to react. The Knowledge Graph enables our customers and their users to go about their business, driven by data but free from the need to find and manage it.

Election Night Integrity Project

State by state tracking of election results in real time

US Election 2020

Social Pinpoint

Newcastle, NSW

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

Tablet Comunitario

Mozambique (Mocambique)

Empowering rural communities with digital education

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Crowdgauge

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

The Civic Cloud Collaborative

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

Voor Je Buurt

Democracy Works Elections API

Brooklyn, NY

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

Open Australia Foundation

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

synAthina

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

Loomio

Wellington, New Zealand

Loomio helps groups of people make decisions together, online

Open Contracting Partnership

641 S Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20001, USA

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

Covid19cz.cz – Data proti Covid

COVID19CZ je společná aktivita několika českých technologických firem a IT nadšenců zaměřená na pomoc v boji s nákazou COVID-19.

Data Justice Conference 2020: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK

The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

criminal justice

Citizens' Voice

Witte Kruislaan 55a 1217 AM Hilversum

Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.