Civic Tech Field Guide

Innovationshauptplatz of the city of Linz

Linz, Austria

You want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!

PDX City Sync

Portland, OR

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

My City Challenge Oakland

Oakland, California

An engagement program

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

Zencity Engage (formerly Civil Space)

British Columbia

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

Action Path

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

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

apps

Site OpenPB

Paris

This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.

Participatory budgeting

C3PLACES

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

public space

Empatia Project

Centro de Estudos Sociais Colégio de S.Jerónimo Largo D. Dinis Apartado 3087 3000-995 Coimbra, Portugal

The EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.

Discuto

Amtsgasse 13a

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

Cocoriko

58 Old Chelsea road, suite 101 Chelsea, Quebec J9B 0C9

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

Rahvaalgatus.ee

Tallinn

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

CivicApps.org

Portland, OR

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

Abre

Santiago, Chile

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

Citizens Foundation Reyjavik

A platform that offers different citizen engagement solutions

Si fuera presidente

Colombia

Todas las peticiones llegarán a los candidatos presidenciales y podrán adoptarlas dentro de sus planes de gobierno.

Argu

Argu, Maliebaan, Utrecht, Nederland

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

YECAS

Cacique Guaymallén 1065, Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina

Resident feedback

apps

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

CityScope Champs-Élysée

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, boulevard Morland, Paris, France

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

urban planning

Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops

UN Habitat, Beirut, Lebanon

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

InternetGovernment.org

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

Better Reykjavik

Reykjavík, Iceland

Better Reykjavik allows citizens to propose the policies that matter to them

HatchLab Innovation Studio

United States of America (the)

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

workshops

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

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

Social Pinpoint

Newcastle, NSW

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

CitizenLab

Cantersteen 12

Bringing the town hall to your citizens

Expressão

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

coUrbanize

33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USA

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

Online Deliberation Singapore (ODSG)

Lower Kent Ridge Road, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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

research

Barcelona Digital City

Barcelona, Spain

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.

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

Place Speak

New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADA

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

place-based

OurSay

Australia

Intelligence driving public sector performance

BERiDE

Jakarta

BERiDE is where people can share their ideas to develop the city in any way. / Ide Anda dapat Menjadikan Jakarta Lebih Baik, Ayo Kolaborasi Bersama

Portugal Participa

OFICINA Association, Estrada Senhora da Saúde, 32A, 8000-500 Faro

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

Immaginazione Civica

Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 Bologna

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

DemocracyOS

Buenos Aires

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.