German digital debates program sponsored by YouTube

• YouTube

• Debate
• Shows and films

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Ideation

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Latvian survey + group decision-making tool

• Surveys & polling
• Group decision making

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Web design company

• Social impact design firms

The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.

• Awards and prizes

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Blockchain-based online voting tool and machines

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.

• Group decision making
• Meeting tech

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Design
• Fellowships

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

We'll be looking at ways to visualise air pollution in situ and in real time, so people can see the pollution levels on their streets.

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

Open planning platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

OpenGov's tool to supplement public hearings with surveys, forums, and online meetings.

• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

A crowdsourced collection of personal stories, how-to articles, and resource lists on four major topics: Funding, People, Mission, and Operations + Tech.

• Playbooks and design principles

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

• Engagement tech

Engage residents with mapping and commenting

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Slack instance for the Code for group

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

A digital participation platform offered by Enviroissues

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Platformable supports the development of open ecosystems

• Civic data
• Civic and social impact companies
• Open knowledge

Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Newsletters

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Utility that generates a namecard containing your pronouns and how to pronounce your name

• Diversity & Inclusion

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• United Nations

• Participatory democracy

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Transit app for Mexico, WhereIsMyTransport instance

• mass transit
• mobility
• apps

• Mapping tools

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Reimagining Caribbean Society in the Digital Age

• Civic and social impact companies

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

All Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.

• ChatGPT

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Dutch participatory engagement company

• Engagement tech

Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Making Cities for People

• Govtech vendors

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

A hardware table that lets people gather around it for collective decision-making processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Hardware

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks and coalitions

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact