Explore 84 projects in the Citizen Engagement category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Projects that engage citizens (or residents, or constituents) to involve them in decision-making.
True Causes is a web tool for group root-cause analysis at scale: everyone writes causes alone, the group links them pair-by-pair at 75% agreement into a shared map whose "roots" are what to act on, digitising the decades-old Structured Democratic Dialogue method.
The Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative is a new Harvard Kennedy School program (in the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, led by Danielle Allen) helping local governments use technology to strengthen democracy, transparency, and citizen engagement, with an early output being Open Book, a free open-source municipal budget-transparency tool.
Zeitgeist is a public-deliberation platform from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that combines qualitative group discussion with quantitative polling in one experience, letting governments and charities run scalable, engaging consultations.
Joycotter is a collaborative "worldbuilding game" for real-world activism, built around the "joycott", a conditional commitment ("if this exists or this change happens, here's what I'll do") that makes latent demand and support visible before anyone risks building the thing.
CivixThread is one unified ecosystem connecting constituents, organizations, and public leaders.
Tayr (ุทูุฑ) is a Moroccan civic platform, by the Digital Citizen Association, that lets residents report visual pollution (unsightly signage, billboards, urban blight) in their cities and track its resolution; currently piloting in Smara.
SouthendOnSea.city is a local information and community-participation platform serving Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Continuous, transparent citizen sentiment on the European Parliament and US Congress.
Democracy .one is a nonprofit "civic social platform" that turns people's civic opinions into structured Polls, Scores, and Ranks, clusters differently-worded expressions of the same position together, and aggregates them into a continuously-updating, comparable measure of public opinion it calls the "Civic Mirror."