While the French Civic Tech - or “Technologie civique” - community has been growing for about ten years, it's gained significant traction only in the last 5 years. Originally mainly supported by local governments, the visibility of the scene has been highly accelerated by the multiplication of international events in Paris – such as the Open Government Partnership Summit – along with dramatic political moments – especially the recent Yellow vests crisis, followed by Le Grand Débat national.
French Civic Tech has at least two local cultural specificities. First, most of the organizations or projects are developed around Paris, a result of the highly centralized structure of France and the existence of local infrastructures. Then, a high proportion of projects are built in interaction with the government, notably because of a tradition of public funding and public impulsion, but also the difficulty to develop business models around politics in France due to (thanks to) strict regulation. These blurred lines probably contribute to confusion around the definition of civic tech, often overlapping and mixed up with gov tech, political activism, social innovation or public innovation.
Cette plateforme permet d'adresser des pétitions à l'Assemblée nationale et de signer des pétitions déjà enregistrées. Les pétiti
Fostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19
The Government clearly highlighted the modifications made to the text following this consultation, in order to facilitate the follow-up of proposals from different contributors.
Tracking French Presidents' promises.
Une application performante (utilisée notamment par la campagne présidentielle de Donald Trump) pour la mobilisation des Français de droite.
It opens avenues for reflection to renew our democracy and offers concrete solutions that everyone can take up.
A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance
An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
Parcours interactifs, ateliers, conférences, hackathons, journée portes ouvertes etc. mettent en lumière des méthodes originales pensées par des acteurs locaux pour concevoir plus efficacement les politiques publiques et transformer l'administration.
Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.
fortalecer los activismos innovadores y liderazgos emergentes de América Latina a través de la generación de espacios de encuentro y el debate, más la capacitación en herramientas de alto impacto a bajo costo.
makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.
A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.
Digital organizing training
Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.
Put technology at the service of the general interest
Herramientas de código abierto para acciones políticas y sociales.
Innovaciones políticas para construir democracias paritarias, inclusivas y participativas
Gov tech accelerator
Open Source Politics is a company that builds participatory democracy open source tools and hosts collective inteligence workshops for private or public stakeholders willing to engage in a public consultation or a participatory budgeting process.
LE SITE QUI VOUS DONNE LA PAROLE
Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.
Climate and social justice community space
User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of the register of interests of French MPs as well as Lobbying activities.
Civic tech community space
Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government
Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises
Training and empowering young people to help them run for office in 2020
a user-friendly platform that centralizes data about all public services and facilities that can cater to the needs of vulnerable citizens, such as where to eat, to shower, to find shelter or get social welfare
Bienvenue sur la plateforme participative de la ville de Nanterre! Construisons ensemble une société plus ouverte, transparente et collaborative.
Parliamentary Initiative to open the National Assembly to citizens and the civic tech community
Collaborative writing of laws
Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.
À l'initiative du Président de la République, le Gouvernement engage un Grand Débat National permettant à toutes et tous de débattre de questions essentielles pour les Français.
Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how new technologies can improve public services and democratic practices.
Facebook lance un outil pour faciliter l’accès aux programmes des candidats à la présidentielle
Angers participatory budget
Network of French civic tech organizations
La plateforme d’intelligence collective la plus complète et la plus polyvalente sur le marché.
Paris Participatory Budget
Mobilize Collective Intelligence
Better policies for better lives
New innovation methods for designing public policy involving all public stakeholders
Curated by Clémence Pène
Clémence Pène is a former advisor to the Mayor of Paris, in charge of her digital strategy and open government. As a PhD candidate researching on campaigns and activism in France and in the United States, she started to build an international network in the field of civic innovation and digital advocacy. She has been awarded with a Fulbright Fellowship and two Google fellowships for young innovators.
She is the President of the Personal Democracy Forum France network, a yearly civic tech event, imported from New York to Paris. Clémence teaches Political Science at La Sorbonne in Paris.
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