• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

iCampus is Liberia’s first multi-disciplinary, innovation and community space for change-makers focusing on the intersection of technology, accountability and social change. The establishment of iCampus was fostered by Accountability Lab Liberia and iLab Liberia as part of a USAID Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative program that tends to inform decisions around policy reform through advocacy.

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

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Predictiv helps organisations make better and faster decisions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Uses machine learning to track legislation and predict the best methods of advocating for them

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Research and policy centers

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life. Without adequate study of the availability of broadband connectivity, policymakers are left in the dark as they design programs to modernize communications infrastructure and ensure that telecommunications companies provide broadband/Internet service at the minimum speeds required to take full advantage of online resource.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

• case studies

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Twaweza works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It has programs, staff and offices across all three countries, and a world respected practice of learning, monitoring and evaluation. It's flagship programs include Uwezo, Africa’s largest annual citizen assessment to assess children’s learning levels across hundreds of thousands of households, and Sauti za Wananchi, Africa’s first nationally representative mobile phone survey. It undertake effective public and policy engagement, through powerful media partnerships and global leadership of initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership.

• Budget explorers

Public engagement has never been easier

• Participatory budgeting
• Budget explorers
• Policy simulators

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest

• experiments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Know What's Next

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The American people expect to interact with government through digital channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By building digital services that meet their needs, we can make the delivery of our policy and programs more effective.

• Playbooks and design principles

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We are an applied research lab dedicated to innovating the ways people participate in civic life and expanding the study of citizenship in a digital era.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Tell your advocates' stories. Change policy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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
• Fight disinformation

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

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
• Civic data
• Govtech

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy