Civic Tech Field Guide

Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

Cambridge, MA

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

books

Viamo

We use mobile technology to create scalable campaigns with immediate feedback

Voice of the People's Policymaking Simulations

United States of America (the)

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

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

Fatima

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

Converlens

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

Decision 21

Prague, Czechia

Online platform for civic participation

oTree

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

MobPoll

Quick poll creation tool

Aquaya

San Francisco

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

Clean water and sanitation

Agora (France)

Paris, France

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

apps

Digitalization in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Use of Smartphones to Enhance the Safety of Informal Settlements in Iringa, Tanzania

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

Polltix

Vilnius, Lithuania

A platform for the public sector to directly consult with the citizens.

Reporter for iPhone

Reporter is an iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable.

apps

Surveys & polling

reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good

Germany (Deutschland)

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

Common Measurements Tool

The Common Measurements Tool (CMT) is a survey instrument built specifically for the public sector that can be used across the full range of service areas, service channels, and client types. Its standardized methodology allows not just for effective performance measurement but also for direct comparisons between different organizations.

Partimap

Hungary (Magyarország)

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

Namma Mahiti Kendras

Bangalore

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

place-based

Hearken's Engagement Management System

Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data

Boston, MA

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

Kenya Digital Public Works

Nairobi

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

2022 Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers

Washington, DC

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

Purpoz

France

Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)

Interactive Media Bias Chart

A chart of thousands of media sources based on source reliability and surveys of perceived political biases

Urbanpinion

Eastern Europe

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

Uchaguzi 2022

Kenya

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

Rooted in Trust

Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.

Name It. Change It. Research and Reports

Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.

women

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

PolitiTruth

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

apps

Avalanche Insights

Synthesize qualitative data

Data For Progress

United States of America (the)

A modernized think tank; fast-turnaround, social media-optimized, and rigorous analysis.

Surveys & polling

The HALO Trust

Clearing mines & Helping Countries Recover “We use a combination of machine learning on satellite imagery, GIS and field surveys,” says Luan Jaupi, who heads up information and communications technology at HALO

landmine clearance

Listening to Leaders survey

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

Ethelo Build Back Better survey

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

‎Polliticly

In ever changing times, it is important for every citizen to have their voice heard. Polliticly is the app that lets you find your voice by tailoring polls and questions that relate to pressing issues in your community and then sends results of those polls to your local elected officials.

apps

Civiclytics

This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.

COVID In Boston

Boston, MA

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.