The tech

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1. Engagement
  1. Civic crowdfunding platforms
  2. Participatory budgeting
  3. Open innovation
    1. Crowdsourcing
    2. Challenges
    3. Expert networks
    4. Ideation
    5. Public input and engagement platforms
      1. Surveys
      2. Interactive voice response
  4. Crowdlaw
  5. Group decision-making
  6. Meeting tech
  7. Resource matching and sharing
2. Govtech
  1. Marketplaces and clearinghouses
  2. Bureaucracy tech
  3. Identity
  4. Service delivery
  5. Govtech vendors
  6. Behavioral economics programs
  7. Communicating with the people
    1. Service alerts
  8. Communicating with the government
    1. Issue reporting
  9. Voting and elections
    1. Voter registration
    2. Election administration
    3. Voter assistance
    4. Match views to votes
    5. Help more people run for office
  10. Access social benefits
  11. Online forums
    1. Civic forums
    2. Neighborhood forums
  12. Remote government
3. Civic data
  1. Open data portals
    1. Open data platforms
  2. Crowdsourced data collection
  3. Data schemas and standards
  4. Data visualization tools and platforms
    1. Dashboards
    2. Network visualizations
  5. Data science
  6. Mapping
    1. Maps
    2. Mapping tools
  7. Archives
4. Advocacy tech
  1. Activism aggregators
  2. Organize campaigns
    1. Canvassing
    2. Organize events
    3. Direct action
    4. Manage volunteers
    5. Email campaign tools
      1. Peer to peer email
    6. SMS campaign tools
      1. Peer to peer SMS
    7. Call campaign tools
    8. Petitions
    9. Boycott or buycott
    10. Fundraising
    11. Distributed campaigns
    12. Official campaign apps
    13. Story-based campaigning
  3. Watchdogging and transparency
    1. Budget explorers
    2. Promise trackers
    3. Whistleblowing
    4. Lobbying
    5. Social and financial connections
    6. Freedom of Information
    7. Consumer watchdogging
    8. Report cards
5. Media
  1. Fight disinformation
    1. Factchecking
    2. Trustmarks
  2. Solutions journalism
  3. News to action
  4. Narrative tech
    1. Big listening
    2. Listening
    3. Story tech
    4. Story-based campaigns
  5. De-polarization technologies
  6. Opinion matching
  7. Media and social media analysis
  8. Hyperlocal news and citizen media
  9. Games and gamification
  10. Advertising

6. Emerging tech

  1. Sensors
  2. Artificial intelligence
    1. Rules-based solutions
    2. Machine learning
      1. Deep learning
    3. Audio processing
      1. Speech recognition
    4. Machine vision
    5. Machine learning analytics
    6. Natural Language Processing
    7. Government AI strategies
    8. Bots
    9. Algorithmic transparency
  3. Virtual and augmented reality
  4. Blockchain
  5. Hardware
    1. Cameras
    2. Drones
    3. Satellites
    4. Connectivity
    5. ICT4D