Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

• cities

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Digital transformation

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Civic fiction
• Shows and films

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

• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Utility that generates a namecard containing your pronouns and how to pronounce your name

• Diversity & Inclusion

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• Participatory democracy

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

More than a non-governmental organization, Conectas are part of a lively and global movement that persists in the struggle for equal rights. Connected to an extensive network of partners spread across Brazil and the world, they are present and make themselves heard in the various decision-making spaces that contribute to the advancement of human rights from the perspective of the Global South.

• human rights

Most Powerful Way to Advocate for Your Community

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government
• Activism aggregators

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Inclusion for allowing citizens with hearing impairment to interact with public services and institutions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

Now you can be an angel investor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

TAKING A HEARING ON THE SPOT

• The Tech
• Govtech

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Le Moteur de visualisation de données ouvertes convertie pour vous les données publiques en formes narratives de visualisation.

• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Social entrepreneurship is the heart of NESsT's mission in emerging markets: empowering each sustainable business to create jobs and fight poverty.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We're the UK's leading public participation charity, on a mission to put people at the heart of decision-making

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The place where you can make a difference

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Developed by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Whether you are a small town or a major municipality, People Speak makes it easy to improve the quality and quantity of public input at your public meetings.The Future Of Public HearingsBook a Demo Today

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government

Arizona Eviction Help makes it easier for tenants to learn about eviction hearings, identify potential defenses to useand create court documents to use.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.

• apps
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Open data meetup

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Communicate with your supporters, constituents, parishioners or customers where they want to hear from you: text.

• The Tech
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

The Global Laboratory of Future Mobility

• cities
• mobility

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech