Comparison chart of civic technology platforms

Civic technology is defined as technology that enables engagement, participation or enhances the relationship between the people and government by enhancing citizen communications and public decision, improving government delivery of service, and infrastructure. Civic technology platforms specifically designed to improve citizen participation in governance. We distinguished civic tech from government technology. Government technology being technology that directly deals with government infrastructure.

Platform types


We used the categorization on democratic innovations according to Graham Smith:[1]

  • Electoral innovations - "aim to increase electoral turnout"
  • Consultation innovations - "aim to inform decision-makers of citizens’ views"
  • Deliberative innovations - "aim to bring citizens together to deliberate on policy issues, the outcomes of which may influence decision-makers"
  • Co-governance innovations - "aim to give citizens significant influence during the process of decision-making"
  • Direct democracy innovations - "aim to give citizens final decision-making power on key issues"
  • E-democracy innovations - "use information technology to engage citizens in the decision-making process"

Comparison chart

Platform Name Founder Dates Active Corporate Structure Geography Parent Company Party Affiliation Technology Used Open Source Software License Primary Funders Platform Type
Brigade James Windon, Jason Putorti, John Thrall, Matt Mahan, Miche Capone[2] Apr 14, 2014[2] - Present For Profit San Francisco, California, United States[3] Brigade Media Proprietary software No Marc Benioff, SV Angel,[2] Sean Parker[4] Electoral Innovation, Deliberative Innovation
CitizenLab Wietse Van Ransbeeck, Aline Muylaert, Koen Gremmelprez[5] September 2015[6] - Present For Profit[7] Brussels, Belgium[8] Proprietary software No E-democracy innovation, Consultation innovation
Loomio Ben Knight[9] Nov 1, 2012[9] - Present For Profit[9] Wellington, New Zealand[9] Ruby, Javascript[10] Yes AGPL v3[11] Crowdfunding[12] Deliberative Innovation
DemocracyOS Pia Mancini, Santiago Siri[13] 2012[13] - Present Non Profit[13] Palo Alto, California, United States[13] Democracy Earth Foundation Net Party[14] JavaScript[15] Yes GPL v3[16] Y Combinator, Teespring[13] Direct Democracy Innovation
GovTrack Joshua Tauberer[17] 2003[18] - Present Washington, District of Columbia, United States[19] Civic Impulse, LLC[20] Django[21] Yes Crowdfunding
Fluicity Julie de Pimodan, Jonathan Meiss, Nicolas de Briey[22] July 2015[23] - Present For Profit[24] Paris, France[22] Proprietary software No Consultation Innovation
Hustle Perry Rosenstein, Roddy Lindsay, Tyler Brock[25] Dec 2014[25] For Profit[25] San Francisco, California, United States[25] Proprietary software No Social Capital (venture capital) Electoral Innovation
Capitol Bells Ted Henderson[26] 2013[26] - Present For Profit[26] Washington, DC, United States[26] Proprietary software No Consultation Innovation
NGP Van Mark T. Sullivan, Nathaniel Pearlman 1997–Present[27] For Profit[27] Washington, DC, United States[27] Democratic and Progressive Campaigns[27] Proprietary software No E-democracy innovation
LiquidFeedback Andreas Nitsche, Jan Behrens, Axel Kistner and Bjoern Swierczek[28] November 2009[29] Berlin, Germany[30] Public Software Group, Interaktive Demokratie, FlexiGuided GmbH[29] German Pirate Party Lua (programming language), PL/pgSQL Yes MIT License Deliberative Innovation
OpenGov Joe Lonsdale, Mike Rosengarten, Nate Levine, Zac Bookman[31] 2012–Present For Profit[31] Redwood City, California, United States JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Python[32] Yes Emerson Collective[31]
PopVox Marci Harris 2010–Present For Profit Washington, DC, United States Proprietary software No Consultation Innovation
Turbovote Kathryn Peters, Seth Flaxman[33] 2010–Present [33] For Profit[33] Democracy Works[34] Proprietary software No Electoral Innovation
iSideWith Taylor Peck, Nick Boutelier[35] March 2012 – Present[35] Los Angeles, California, United States[35] Not affiliated[35] Amazon AWS, Facebook API, Twitter API, PHP, PostgreSQL, Postgis, Perl, Ubuntu Server, Apache, HTML, CSS, SVG, JQuery, GeoIP, Google Analytics[36] No Electoral Innovation
We The People Obama administration September 2011 – Present Government Agency Washington, DC, United States Democratic Party JavaScript, PHP, CSS[37] Yes GNU General Public License[37] United States Government Co-governance Innovation
Voatz Nimit S. Sawhney[38] 2014–Present[38] For Profit[38] Boston, Massachusetts, United States[39] Go[40] No Medici Ventures[41] Electoral Innovation
Helios Voting Ben Adida 2008–Present[42] Non Profit Python, JavaScript, HTML[43] Yes Apache License[43] Direct Democracy Innovation
U Report UNICEF Innovation[44] May 2011 – Present[45] Non Profit New York, United States UNICEF Python, HTML, CSS[46] Yes GNU Affero General Public License[46] Consultation Innovation
Maji Voice Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) 2012–Present[47] Government Agency Nairobi, Kenya Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) Open Source[47] Yes GNU General Public License[48] World Bank Water and Sanitation Program[47] Consultation Innovation
Democracy 2.1 Karel Janeček 2013–Present Prague Municipal District, Czech Republic Proprietary software No Direct Democracy Innovation
Secure Vote Max Kaye, Nathan Spataro[49] 2016–Present[49] New South Wales, Australia[49] Python, HTML, Shell[50], Blockchain[49] No MIT License Direct Democracy Innovation

See also

References

  1. ↑ Graham, Smith, (2005). "Beyond the ballot: 57 democratic innovations from around the world". westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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  18. ↑ "Joshua Tauberer's Homepage". razor.occams.info. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
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  21. ↑ "govtrack/govtrack.us-web". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  22. 1 2 "Fluicity". angel.co. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
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  26. 1 2 3 4 "Capitol Bells | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  27. 1 2 3 4 "NGP VAN | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
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  29. 1 2 "Information Kit (PDF)" (PDF).
  30. ↑ "LiquidFeedback - The democracy software". liquidfeedback.org. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  31. 1 2 3 "Series C - OpenGov - 2017-05-16 | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
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  33. 1 2 3 "TurboVote | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  34. ↑ "Democracy Works: Democracy Fund". www.democracyfund.org. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  35. 1 2 3 4 "About iSideWith.com". iSideWith. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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  37. 1 2 "WhiteHouse/petitions". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
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  47. 1 2 3 "WB Maji Voice Policy Note" (PDF).
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  49. 1 2 3 4 "SecureVote". Techboard. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
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