• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Citymart transforms the way cities solve procurement problems. Citymart is a platform for city government employees to deliver better services, connecting them to urban solutions, projects and peers across departments and around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Procurement

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

a citizen engagement platform for local government

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Intelligence driving public sector performance

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Este observatório pretende constituir-se como um centro de recursos para o conhecimento dos processos participativos existentes em Portugal.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

• harassment

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

• APIs

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Find, Share and Publish Quality Data Online. The fastest way for individuals, teams and organizations to publish, deploy and share their data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Red Blue Voice was a social network providing users with tools to broadcast their social and political messages.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Drone maps and 3D models processed in the cloud for construction, mining, energy, & more.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Perquè la democràcia es fa entre tots i totes.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

It let people set up pledges in the form: ‘I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me’.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Die Lobby für alle ohne Lobby. Wir setzen uns für die politischen Interessen von Bürgern & kleinen Organisationen ein. #lobbyfüralle

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

RALLY.org makes it easy for individuals, groups, social causes and non-profits to fundraise online with no minimum donation requirements.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Get funding

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Fund projects that make local places better. Millions in matchfunding available. Crowdfund a project idea on Spacehive now.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Since Sliced Bread was a national call for fresh, common sense ideas, organized by the SEIU.

• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Media

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Fight disinformation
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Pick your project and invest some dollars.

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms