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Accelerate and scale public participation in policy decision-making.
Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability
Civic Tech is often seen as a competitive landscape—platforms battling for users, clients, or institutional partners. But this view misses the point. In practice, Civic Tech tools are not designed to replace each other—they complement one another. Whether it's mass mobilization, participatory democracy, election campaigns, or supporting civil society organizations, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for citizen engagement. Citizen engagement is never about one tool alone—it’s about using the right tools, at the right time, and at the right scale.

The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials, by establishing best practices and through collaborative development of digital wallet technology to enable standards-based OSS components that issuers, and wallet providers can rely on.