Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports

• Foundational layers
• Digital security and privacy

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

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

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

A report on the pathologies of commercial platforms and benefits and challenges of ethical platforms

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Citizen Engagement
• E-voting and I-voting
• Voting and elections

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Courses
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Data governance
• Digital transformation
• Peer networks

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• CRM

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advertising

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for European Commission funded research.

• Github

• Civic data
• Open science
• Open data publishing platforms

We help platforms transition to community-driven data management.

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Donate directly to a homeless person or refugee. Follow their journey into a career and home with our award-winning support 🤝

• homelessness

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Story-based campaigns

We’re focused on the future: forms with function.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Forms

Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.

• Participatory democracy
• Petitions
• Digital participation platforms

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Government transparency

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Digital participation platforms

Open Government Leadership Collaborative

• trainings

• Govtech
• Building inside government

Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale

• commercial

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Labor platforms

Platform Land was a project at digitalHKS examining how digital platforms will change government and society.

• guides

• Govtech
• Service delivery

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Digital security and privacy

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

Взаимопомощь и защита своих прав — это неотъемлемые составляющие гражданского общества

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mutual aid

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Un hub de datos para que tu organización sea la primera que hace uso de sus propios datos.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open data publishing platforms

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Fundraising tools
• Get funding

#ISOJ is the official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It features articles based on original research, methodologies relevant to the study of journalism and innovative technologies (online, tablets, mobile platforms, etc.), critical syntheses of research and theoretical perspectives on journalism today.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Journalism

Our Elections Integrity Program collects the expertise of our community of integrity professionals to help understand the impact the social media platforms have on elections and protect democratic elections around the world.

• Voting and elections

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.

• Specific campaigns
• Democratic Innovations
• Ranked Choice Voting

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery