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
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

Our program offers real-time tracking of school buses through a mobile web app. We hope that — in a small way — this creates a better experience for parents and students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Political party transparency made easy

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A secure, decentralized, auditable and open platform for e-voting and vote counting that everybody can trust

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Find out where to vote

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Legal tech

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Bringing people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities while connecting citizens to governments to build up trust.

• The People
• Build something
• State and regional government technology

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

Decisions made easy.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A project in the Netherlands to enable digital voting on the blockchain

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Accelerating Civic Innovation

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A platform that offers different citizen engagement solutions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Chicago Cityscape shows where development is happening by combining data from dozens of sources.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Discover how your MP votes on the issues that matter to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Explorez l'évolution de la loi au fil de la procédure parlementaire avec La Fabrique de la Loi ! Plus de 800 textes de loi promulgués depuis 2008 à explorer pour mieux comprendre comment les parlementaires influent sur la loi

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

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

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We have developed a data visualisation app which enables you to upload and visualise exports from both the Tombolo Digital Connector and your commonly used GIS systems online.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Games and gamification
• Building inside government

The Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.

• The Tech
• Civic data APIs

Cosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Data visualization

Loomio helps groups of people make decisions together, online

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Machine learning for creators

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution

• commercial

• Organize campaigns
• Internal communication and coordination

CARTO Turns Your Location Data Into Business Outcomes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The UK’s street fault reporting website (rebranded as FixMyCommunity)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Beckton is an open source tool for creating a new group of paying members, but only if enough people agree to join to make it worth while.

• The People
• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

ODK lets you build powerful offline forms to collect the data you need wherever it is. Join the leading social impact organizations that use ODK to make the world a better place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

To strengthen the topic of freedom of information as a whole by transparently depicting the inquiry and response process.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Find out about candidates in your area

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections