Civic Tech Field Guide

GetVolunteering

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

reports

Partimap

Hungary (Magyarország)

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

University of Canberra

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

Canòdrom

Carrer Concepció Arenal 165 08027 Barcelona (Spain)

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

cities

E-Consultation Guide

Dublin, Ireland

An inactive wiki guide to e-consultation

guides
wikis

Namma Mahiti Kendras

Bangalore

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

place-based

Hoplr

Ghent, Belgium

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

apps

Hearken

Chicago, IL

Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.

Advancing Democracy Fellowship

United States of America (the)

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

The Collective Intelligence Project

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data

Boston, MA

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

SmartResponse

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

CONSUL für Schulen

Germany

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

demokratie.today

Mühlleite 13, 91465 Ergersheim, Germany

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

Talk to Loop

The Hague, Netherlands

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

Interventions to End Online Violence Against Women in Politics

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

reports

The Good Lobby Awards

Paris, France

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes

Paris, France

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

reports

Best practices of engaging and involving people with lived experience in decision-making

Scotland

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

reports

Citibeats

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

The People's Money

New York City, NY, USA

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

cities

Great King Machines

India

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

streetscape

Climate Democracy

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

The Participation Playbook

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

guides

Participatory Policymaking

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

guides

Legislative Theater

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

guides

OpenSidewalks

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

A Starting Point

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani. ASP’s mission is to create a bipartisan channel of communication and connectivity between Americans and their elected officials with the goal of creating a more informed electorate.

celebrities

Inform, educate, entertain… and recommend?

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

reports

Social media

Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism | Putting Local Data to Work

United States of America (the)

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

racial equity

Justice Media co-Lab

Boston, MA

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

The Opportunity Project for Cities

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

cities

A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries

Philadelphia

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

vaccines

Voice of San Diego

San Diego, CA

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

Civic Nation

Washington, DC

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

Digital Día de Muertos altar

Los Angeles, CA

Honor your loved ones with a digital Día de Muertos altar by the Los Angeles Times

Colab.re

Brazil (Brasil)

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

apps

Center for Democracy and Citizenship

ADC Business Center, 1929 5th Street South, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55454

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.

Public.Resource.Org

Public.Resource.Org, 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472

“Making Government Information More Accessible”

Cornell eRulemaking Initiative

Cornell Tech

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

Mehr Demokratie

Mehr Demokratie e.V., Greifswalderstr. 4, 10108 Berlin, Germany

Seit mehr als 30 Jahren bringt Mehr Demokratie die direkte Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung voran und kümmert sich um Transparenz und ein faires Wahlrecht.

Quebrando o Tabú

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

Candidate Watch

Candidatewatch.ie, c/o Ashoka Ireland, 18 Eustace Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

CandidateWatch is a non-partisan, non-profit project which helps to make election campaigning more transparent and politicians more accountable.

The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

WFP Innovation Challenge

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

Challenges

Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.