Civic Tech Field Guide
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21 projects
https://www.dembrane.com/en-US/products/echoActiveOpen-source

ECHO

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

Netherlands
2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Speech recognition
https://www.loomio.com/ActiveOpen-source

Loomio

Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action

Wellington, New Zealand
2011
Civic forums, Engagement tech, Group decision making, Online forums, Speech recognition, The Tech
coop
https://civicsearch.org/Active

CivicSearch

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

Massachusetts
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic data, Government transparency, Public meetings, Speech recognition, Watchdogging government
local
https://cartodebat.com/ActiveOpen-source

CartoDEBAT

Argument and transparency in public debate

Saint-Etienne, France
2017 (but the first debate was facilitated in 2012)
Debate, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Natural Language Processing, Participatory democracy, Speech recognition
Sustainable cities and communities, Quality education
https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneasActiveOpen-source

aeneas

aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)

General purpose open source tools, Speech recognition
https://haiket.com/Active

Haiket

Haiket offers eligible users across Europe the option to message people on WhatsApp directly as part of the EUโ€™s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Chat and messaging, Speech recognition
https://localview.net/Active

LocalView

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings โ€” the central policy-making process in American local government โ€” as they are captured on video.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2023
Archives, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Audio processing, Communicating with the people, Participatory democracy, Public meetings, Speech recognition
YouTube
https://openparliament.tv/Active

Open Parliament TV

We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible

Germany
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Audio processing, Government transparency, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring, Speech recognition, Watchdogging and transparency
https://www.dembrane.com/Active

Dembrane

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Netherlands
2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Audio processing, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Speech recognition, Tech for your meetings