Projects - Engagement tech

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.

Ideenplattform

Frankfurt

Hier können Sie Ihre Ideen zur Gestaltung der Stadt vorstellen und um Unterstützung werben.

Impact of AI on work consultation

Sacramento, CA

All Californians are invited to participate in California’s digital democracy effort, as Governor Newsom launches Engaged California statewide to give Californians a stronger voice in AI policy and assess its impact on the state’s economy and workers. This is the first statewide use of the tool, open to every resident.

MyCapitol

Washington, DC

Policy intelligence tool for advocates, nonprofits, and everyday people

deliberate (dlbrt)

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Turn public voice into actionable proof, AI-powered synthesis transforms raw feedback into auditable reports and structured policy recommendations.

Agora (debate)

Bay Area, California

Agora is a structured civic debate platform where AI coaches you privately to sharpen your argument before you publish it and where prestige is earned through quality of reasoning.

Playbook for America

Bay Area, California

Playbook for America is a civic platform that makes it easy for people to report civic problems, crowdsource practical solutions, and turn the best ideas into implementation-ready Playbooks that drive positive civic outcomes.

Policy Bridge KE

Nairobi

Policy Bridge KE is a civic-tech platform built by young people, for young people, rooted in the belief that Kenya's youth hold real, practical solutions to the country's most persistent challenges.

Decidim Automation Bridge

Geneva

This document will go through the Voca project of building a Decidim automation bridge for existing tools.

Convexus

Seattle

An AI-facilitated civic tech platform where communities gather to align, deliberate, and act.

LLMs Tools for Public Discourse

United States of America 🇺🇸

This is an evolving dataset of LLM Tools that are used to support Public Discourse across digital media platforms.

Decidim chat integrations

Geneva

Scale participation with decidim chat integrations

European Citizens' Initiative Forum

Brussels

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Forum is an online collaborative platform that offers support to citizens when organising a European citizens’ initiative.

Voxit

11A Erkkilänkatu Tampere

Voxit is a [Pol.is fork and] open source polling platform that addresses challenges commonly found in online conversations and digital polls, like low engagement or highly polarising debates.

Unify America

Evanston, IL

Unify America brings thousands of Americans together with interactive experiences that help them build and flex their civic muscles so we can work together to tackle our country’s biggest challenges.

CivicVerify

civic verify

Identity-verified civic engagement platform where citizens participate in polls, surveys, and community discussions with authenticated identities, providing organizations with trustworthy public opinion data.

Portal e-Cidadania

Brasília

O e-Cidadania é um portal criado em 2012 pelo Senado Federal com o objetivo de estimular e possibilitar maior participação dos cidadãos nas atividades legislativas, orçamentárias, de fiscalização e de representação do Senado.

Ideia Legislativa

Brasília

PROPONHA E APOIE IDEIAS PARA NOVAS LEIS

Suffrago

London

Building the next generation of market research and polling through contextualised insights that fuel decision making.

Nexus Politics

Munich

The Operating System for Digital Democracy

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.

Framework for Meaningful Engagement

The Hague

The updated FME 2.0 offers very practical suggestions on how to engage civil society and affected communities in AI development to support platforms and AI developers in creating rights-based products.

Sociocracy For All

United States of America 🇺🇸

We help organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn sociocracy — a decentralized way of organizing that makes decision-making more equitable, efficient, and transparent.

The Common News

Chicago

The Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.

Facilitation in the AI Era

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

A Community Roadmap for Technologies to Support Practitioners

Decidim Public Institutions Committee

Barcelona

This institutional alliance reinforces the commitment to a democratic, public, transparent and collaborative digital infrastructure, at a time when various indicators warn of a regression in democratic quality on a global scale.

Open Space Sandbox

Philadelphia

Like a city-building game—but real life. Open Space Sandbox turns play into planning data

Awesome Polis

Community list of awesome projects, apps, tools and more related to Polis.

Polis

Breathe-in

Warsaw

Through the ‘Breathe-in’ project, part of the Breathe Cities Programme, teenagers are influencing mobility decisions that will affect their futures.

Engagement tech

Church Street's NationBuilder

London

In just five months, 850+ residents engaged as Westminster’s Church Street team shifted from spreadsheets to real-time, data-driven engagement to build affordable homes in the community.

housing

Interoperable Deliberative Tools (IDT) Cohort

United States of America 🇺🇸

The mission of this research area is to make today’s collective intelligence tools more open, modular, and interoperable, laying the groundwork for a capture-resistant ecosystem of deliberative tooling in which process innovation thrives and local creativity blossoms.

How do Civic Tech platforms work together?

Europe

Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability

TICTeC 25

Conseil économique, social et environnemental (CESE)

Paris

Le Conseil économique, social et environnemental conseille le Gouvernement et le Parlement. Il représente les organisations de la société civile et associe les citoyens à la vie démocratique.

Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms

Cambridge, MA

Online discourse faces challenges in facilitating substantive and productive political conversations. Recent technologies have explored the potential of generative AI to promote civil discourse, encourage the development of mutual understanding in a discussion, produce . . .

books

People-Powered Gen AI: Collaborating with Generative AI for Civic Engagement

Cambridge, MA

Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust between the government and the community.

books

Demokrasia Bis (the Mobile Citizens Lab)

Timor-Leste (Timór Loro Sa’e) 🇹🇱

The Mobile Citizens Lab will travel to various communities across the country, providing young people, who are often excluded from national dialogues, the tools and information they need to engage in democratic processes.

UrbanistAI workshops in Panama City

Panama City, Panama

Participants worked in mixed-age groups, using UrbanistAI to redesign public spaces based on photographs they had taken themselves.

workshops

zKe: Youth Voices

Kenya 🇰🇪

This initiative, dubbed ‘zKe’ is a platform for sustained and meaningful national engagement by and for Kenya’s youth, offering online and offline spaces where young people can actively engage in policy debates, monitor government actions, and link these discussions to tangible action

youth
Polis

CONSUL DEMOCRACY

Amsterdam

The most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.

Consul

CONSUL Civic Assistant

Amsterdam

For this project we will be working in a consortium of European partners on an AI-powered Civic Assistant to integrate in the CONSUL DEMOCRACY code base.

AI Social Readiness: How does the public feel about AI analysing UK government consultation responses?

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence, in collaboration with the UK government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, has trialled an approach to involve the public in assessing AI tools for public services.

reports

Ignis

Poland (Polska) 🇵🇱

Grass-roots civic signaling for Neodemocracy

place-based

CrowdInsights

Europe

CrowdInsights offers a cloud-based SaaS solution for online community and stakeholder engagement and participation.

MISTO

United States of America 🇺🇸

AI-powered platform for Smart cities and corporations, enhancing safety, streamlining communication, and optimizing crisis and workflow management.

city
apps

WhatsApp on Decidim

Geneva

A Decidim WhatsApp chatbot feature that allows people without an email address and/or low connectivity to participate in Decidim instances

l'Observatoire citoyen des engagements municipaux

Malakoff

40 habitantes et habitants volontaires pour faire partie de l'Observatoire citoyen des engagements municipaux, ont évalué un par un, les 150 engagements de la mandature 2020-2026.