Explore 169 projects in the Digital participation platforms category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Platforms and tools to facilitate gathering public input and support for local, place-based projects
Online Voting System is an advocacy campaign site with an online voting page that promotes a "Multireligionvalsystem" (multi-religion election system), proposing that every religious community choose its leaders through democratic elections.
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.
A social media platform with liquid democratic token allocation, where users can collaboratively build the governance framework for the platform and even implement technical changes.
CivixThread is one unified ecosystem connecting constituents, organizations, and public leaders.
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."
Demist is an open-source, decentralized direct-democracy platform: prove you are a real person, vote anonymously, and earn a civic currency.
CitiZone is an all-in-one local-governance platform for Francophone African municipalities that lets authorities register a territory, residents join as verified "e-Citizens," and everyone map public assets, track public-works budgets, report hazards, vote on priorities, and query a legal AI, all working down to a 2G phone via SMS/USSD.
Chattanooga has launched a pilot with Google's Jigsaw and Change.org called Civic Dialogue, that gathers residents' ideas on parks and transit, then uses "Sensemaking AI" to surface the proposals with the broadest support before a group of residents workshops them into policy.
WeDecide empowers communities with real-time neighborhood data, enhancing civic engagement and government responsiveness through privacy-focused civic intelligence tools.