Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. Get started

• Open science

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Data schemas and standards

This guidebook helps people design and run projects that involve the collaborative maintenance of data

• guides

• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles
• Data governance

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Platform Land was a project at digitalHKS examining how digital platforms will change government and society.

• guides

• Govtech
• Service delivery

A prototype project exploring how political parties and organizations could do a better job managing membership

• Advocacy tech
• CRM

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

• YouTube

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Citizen Engagement
• Civic literacy

Project that sought to "create and establish a national digital identification system using distributed ledger technology (DLT)."

• Graveyard
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Research tools

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Justice tech
• Freedom of Information

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks

Thailand's Members of Parliament Monitoring Website

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

An Alaveteli instance for Norway. Project is on pause but the platform still operates

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

Your Matchmaker Between GitHub Projects And Talented Contributors

• Build something
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Fast group decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

We are a small digital studio doing product design, implementation, and new projects.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

We partner with technologists & civic hackers practitioners on a number of open source projects:

• Graveyard
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

Digital certificates and badges are electronic credentials that validate the achievement of skills or completion of courses, often used in education, professional development, and online learning.

• commercial

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

This tool was intended to help you and your organization understand and track your email newsletter metrics

• Media
• Graveyard
• Journalism

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

A privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

Public Sector Network’s second Government Innovation California in-person event will bring together public sector leaders across all levels of government from across the State and region to share their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects.

• state

• Govtech
• Conferences

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

A project of Global Voices, we are a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression online.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Media
• Solidarity networks
• News and blogs

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open innovation

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Government transparency

"Voter Page" aims at providing electronic advanced services to voters.

• Voting and elections
• Open government data
• Voter assistance tech

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

We connect volunteers (developers, graphic designers, marketing specialists) with impactful social good projects to help them with tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Transparency International Hungary's project, based solely on public data, will show the companies that win public money, their procurement activities, results, ownership and public relations, to provide an online tool to detect and prevent political corruption.

• Government transparency

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits