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An education in civics itself, independent of tech, is a necessary precursor to effectively designing and building civic tech. Too many founders jump into democracy and government contexts with a favorite tech solution despite near-total ignorance of those sectors, their histories, or their inner workings. The projects here address traditional civic literacy education, often with a more modern and digital approach.

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DoorashoKaab

DoorashoKaab

Benadir, Somalia

DoorashoKaab is a civic tech platform that empowers Somali citizens with accessible civic education, trusted voter information, and safe digital tools to learn, participate, and report during elections.

PulsivaHub

PulsivaHub

Cape Town

PulsivaHub is an African civic AI companion that answers questions about democratic rights and helps people verify potentially manipulated or AI-generated media.

Minnesota Civic Seal Designation (SF 2565)

A bill for an act relating to education; providing for a civic seal designation for high school students; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 120B.

SIMA Academy

SIMA Academy

Los Angeles

A global learning platform for inquiry, leadership, and civic imagination, powered by award-winning short documentaries from around the world.

Farol da Cidadania

Farol da Cidadania

Florianópolis

O Farol da Cidadania é uma plataforma social sem fins lucrativos e suprapartidária que busca promover a cultura de transparência nas atividades legislativas de Florianópolis e incentivar o controle social do poder legislativo.

Kentucky Medicaid Notebook

A plain-language resource that puts all Medicaid information in one place. No login required.

POLIHIVE

POLIHIVE

Nigeria 🇳🇬

POLIHIVE helps Gen Z Nigerians verify information, detect misinformation, and make informed civic decisions — all through play.

Machinery of Government

Machinery of Government

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

An interactive map of UK Government structure — departments, ministers, agencies, and public bodies, with budget and staffing data.

Networking European Civic Education (NECE)

NECE is a multi-stakeholder network for civic educators to connect, learn and grow.

Volby pro všechny

Helping people with a migration background connect to Czech politics

POLYSAS Election glossary

POLYSAS Election glossary

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

We provide explanations and background information on elections, voting rights and digital democracy ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide

Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Keseb Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide is a digital resource hub offering key trends, frameworks, and strategic recommendations to advance democratic resilience and innovation.

European Democracy Shield

The European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions.

WHY SHIT NOT WORKING

WHY SHIT NOT WORKING

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Councilmember Ossé's Instagram videos explain why NYC's problems don't go away

Project Pericles

Project Pericles

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

We bring together colleges and universities to make civic learning central to what higher education does and who students become.

Athletes as Influencers

Student athletes and coaches are in a unique position as leaders to rise above the noise, elevate civic action, and reach a broad audience of voters on their campuses, communities, and beyond.

CivxNow

CivxNow

Cambridge, MA

With 390+ partners, CivxNow is the nation’s largest cross-partisan coalition working to prioritize civic education in the United States.

#WirMachenWien

Wir setzen uns unabhängig von Parteistrukturen für konkrete Umgestaltung, Aufwertung oder Erhalt von öffentlichem Raum in Wien im Sinne von Klimaschutz, Gesundheit, aktiver Mobilität, Begrünung, Lebensqualität und Verkehrsberuhigung ein.

Starlight Stadium

Starlight Stadium spans four episodes that each tackle a different aspect of the human rights monitoring cycle.

Kid Governor®

Kid Governor®

Hartford, CT

The Connecticut Democracy Center's award-winning civic education program.

The Complete Patriot's Guide To...

The Complete Patriot’s Guide series unpacks American myths, icons, and traditions to reveal their civic DNA.

Pixi Bücher

You can't start early enough – that's why we have short Pixi books on the topics of privacy and transparency for kindergarten-age children.

ACY Learning Hub

ACY Learning Hub

Myanmar (Myăma) 🇲🇲

E-learning Platform for Myanmar Youth, including Public Engagement courses on media literacy, digital safety, and news literacy.

Federalism Index

The Federalism Index Project began with a clear mission: to assist educators, state leaders, and ordinary citizens to better understand and appreciate the significance of federalism in the overall structure of the United States Constitution.

Apathy is Boring

Apathy is Boring

Montreal, QC, Canada

Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. Learn more

Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation

Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and informational trust, and reducing hyper-partisan affective polarization with research and field-building.

Civic Innovation Fund (CIF)

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

THE CIVICS Innovation Hub

THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

Mapping Civic Education in Europe

Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.

What the Fed?

What the Fed?

United States of America 🇺🇸

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

Educación Cívica & Liderazgo Juvenil

Generamos espacios para fortalecer la participación política y cívica de las juventudes

Tainan City Council Watchbot

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map

Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.

MP Scorecard

MP Scorecard

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

Find out about local government in your area

Find out about local government in your area

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

Exploradores da Cidadania

Exploradores da Cidadania

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

MyPolis

MyPolis

8 Tv. de São Pedro Lisboa

Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.

Democracy Fitness

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

The kid's guide to social action : how to solve the social problems you choose--and turn creative thinking into positive action

Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels.

Public Comments Initiative

Public Comments Initiative

United States of America 🇺🇸

EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative sheds light on public commenting and how to engage effectively with federal rulemaking.

FOIA.Wiki

This is a free and collaborative resource on the United States federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Os 230

Os 230

Lisbon

Quem representa os portugueses na Casa da Democracia?

Próxima Geração

A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portugal.

The School for Everyday Democracy

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

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