From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.

• Latinx

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Facebook's now-defunct newsletter product

• Facebook

• Get funding
• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Data schemas and standards

A tagging system for fact-checks

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

An engagement program

• homelessness
• crime
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

• Govtech
• Civic data

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• cities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Data schemas and standards

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.

• floods

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

• Digital participation platforms
• Report cards and audits

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• CRM

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Crypto-based crowdfunding where the group votes on funding proposals and distributes millions in funding accordingly

• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Internet governance

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• CONSUL

Technology Transformation Services (TTS) applies modern methodologies and technologies to improve the lives of the public and public servants. We help agencies make their services more accessible, efficient, and effective with modern applications, platforms, processes, personnel, and software solutions.

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

The Deliberatorium is a web-based system that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to address this critical challenge. Under development since 2007, it has been used by thousands of individuals in such institutions as Intel, the Federal Bureau of Land Management, and the Italian Democratic Party.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Open planning platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

OpenGov's tool to supplement public hearings with surveys, forums, and online meetings.

• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Democrasoft’s mission is to make a significant and lasting contribution to our world. Now we’ve taken the essence of our Collaborize platform, and extended it by making it “portable.” We call this new form the WeJIT – a very simple, but extremely powerful online collaboration tool that goes anywhere.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech