Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• Participatory budgeting

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Innovation capacity
• Playbooks and design principles

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

• The People
• Meet the others
• COVID

People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

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

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

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

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

In this citizen created roadmap, we outline how to humanize technology, move beyond transparency for transparency's sake, and ensure we have government technology that works for the people, built with the people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Pioneering microinfluencer campaigns for cause and political advocacy

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

Building community power through journalism. Newsrooms created by, with and for everyone

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions
• Citizen Engagement

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

The New York Times on civic tech for social benefits

• Access social benefits

E.thePeople is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is the nation's leading provider of interactive voter guide software.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Comparing Harold L. Cross’ Pre-FOIA World to Post-FOIA Today

• Predecessors

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Public People makes news more effective at supporting accountability and democracy. It does this by showing news about a person of political or civic interest in reverse chronological order. Presenting historical articles in this way helps you find articles that you might not otherwise find easily; it lets you see how the conversation about someone changes over time; and it lets you see how one publication differs from another in angle on the same story.

• Media

To secure the necessary financial and technical resources to publish large quantities of data online in user-friendly formats

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The original White House petition site

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

We The People is the best place for politics, debate, news & your vote to count.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

"Find Local Help is a tool from CMS, which runs HealthCare.gov, that connects people to in-person, one-on-one help signing up for health insurance. Users can enter their location and get a list of local experts who can help them complete the process for free." - Ad Hoc

• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

Recognizing organizations that support politicians to empower citizens and develop better policies for people and the planet.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Fieldwide resources

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness

• homelessness
• social isolation

• Access social benefits
• Resource matching and sharing
• Solidarity networks

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.