Civic Tech Field Guide

Engaged Cities Community of Practice

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

cities

Speakeasy.ai

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

Who Represents Me? NYC

New York City, NY, USA

Rep lookup tool for New York

Find your representatives

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence

Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USA

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to understand the impact of dominant narratives of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities most impacted, and aims to co-create interventions to change these narratives.

gun safety

Open Briefing

Cornwall

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

Peticijos.lt

Lithuania

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

Polltix

Vilnius, Lithuania

A platform for the public sector to directly consult with the citizens.

MyCandidate

South Africa

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

Safecity

United States of America (the)

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

cities

HSD 598: Equity in Climate Action

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

Free Machine

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

Press Forward

United States of America (the)

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

The Chanzo Initiative

Tanzania, United Republic of

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.

Brasil Participativo

Brazil (Brasil)

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

Decidim

Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

reports

Civic Story

Canada

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

POPVOX Foundation

United States of America (the)

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

District 33 Street Tree Stewardship Map

Brooklyn, NY

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)

Civic maps

Ubunge

Kenya

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.

MOOC Connexions Citoyennes

Africa

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

The Landecker Democracy Fellowship

Brooklyn, NY

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

Making Voices Heard in the Regulatory Process (US OMB)

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

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.

coletivo delibera

Brazil (Brasil)

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.

Fundación Somos

San Martín de los Andes, Argentina

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

rural

Citizen Engagement

Stichting Netwerk Democratie

Amsterdam

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

European Citizen Action Service

Brussels

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.

Es geht LOS!

Berlin

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

Innovationshauptplatz of the city of Linz

Linz, Austria

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

Kosningakerfi Pírata

Iceland

Digital participation platform for the Icelandic Pirate party

Coglobal

Spain

Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana

Digital Innovation Fund

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

NapišteJim.cz

Czechia

Write to elected officials in Czechia

New Ways Feed

South Korea (Republic of Korea)

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

Creamos

Santiago, Chile

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

How can civic tech work effectively with public and private institutions?

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

Long Beach Co-Lab

Long Beach, CA

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

Maino Tech

Helsinki, Finland

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

Ampliando Democracia

Madrid (Spain)

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.

Democracy Technologies in Europe Online Participation, Deliberation and Voting

Vienna

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

reports

The Centre for Civic Innovation

Sydney NSW, Australia

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

EngageTech Community on LinkedIn

Australia

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

El Avispero

Bogotá

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.

Participatory Digital Futures: How digital transformation can be made good for all

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.