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2026
Explore 95 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.
Vote on the bills, headlines and big questions of the day, then see how your answer compares with everyone else's — a running total of BugBen voters, not a national poll — and with your MP's own vote in Parliament.
Assemblis "Assemblies in action" is a report-sharing gallery from the Iswe Foundation where communities publish and browse reports from community-run local assemblies around the world.
The Deliberative Cycles are a joint initiative of the Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, Fundación Corona, and the Extituto de Política Abierta, which seeks to strengthen deliberation and citizen participation around strategic topics for the city.
AmericanVoters is a legislative-engagement platform from SeniorsUnited, Inc. that lets US citizens track bills in Congress, read plain-language explanations, and message their representatives directly.
Plurality is a free community-organizing and event platform that gives organizers tools to plan, run, and follow up on in-person neighborhood gatherings across the United States.
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.