Others

Tools

Collaborative text

  • Etherpad Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together with your friends, fellow students or colleagues, all working on the same document at the same time. http://etherpad.org https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
  • COMT COMT enables you to install and run a text-annotation Web service. COMT operates a workspace shared among a group of users. In this workspace, one can create, upload, submit to comments, revise, and export texts and their comments. User rights are defined for the whole set of texts in the workspace and can be specialized for each text. http://www.co-ment.com/ https://github.com/co-ment/comt
  • HackMD HackMD lets you create realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms. Inspired by Hackpad, with more focus on speed and flexibility. https://hackmd.io https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd

Debate

  • Discourse Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more! Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern Internet discussion forum should be today, in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter. https://www.discourse.org https://github.com/discourse/discourse
  • Polis Polis is a new way to gather open ended feedback from large groups of people. It is well suited to gathering organic, authentic feedback while retaining minority opinions. https://pol.is https://github.com/pol-is
  • Allourideas All Our Ideas is a research project that seeks to develop a new form of social data collection by combining the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods. Using the power of the web, we are creating a data collection tool that has the scale, speed, and quantification of a survey while still allowing for new information to "bubble up" from respondents as happens in interviews, participant observation, and focus groups. https://allourideas.org/ https://github.com/allourideas

crowdsourcing

  • Crowdsorcerer The GovLab Crowdsourcing Advisor: How and when to use crowdsourcing. A 5-minute guided interview designed to provide you case-studies and learnings about crowdsourcing tailored to your needs. http://crowdsourcingadvisor.org/ INTERESTING

Decision making

  • Lomioo Lomioo is decision-making software designed to assist groups with the collaborative decision-making process. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals.[ As the discussions progress to initiating a proposal, the group receives feedback through an updatable pie chart. https://www.loomio.org/ https://github.com/loomio/loomio

Mapping

  • Fixmystreet FixMyStreet Platform is an open source project to help people run websites for reporting common street problems such as potholes and broken street lights to the appropriate authority. Users locate problems using a combination of address and sticking a pin in a map without worrying about the correct authority to report it to. https://fixmystreet.org/ https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet

  • OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 Designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers. https://tasks.hotosm.org/

  • MapIt Solve your app’s administrative boundary problems, easily. If your app or website needs to connect locations with administrative areas, like constituencies or counties, MapIt can save you a lot of time. MapIt is mature, trusted and widely deployed. And it is available as a hosted API or a self-deployed web service, to suit your needs. http://mapit.poplus.org/

Transparency

  • Pombola Pombola is a parliamentary monitoring (PMO) platform; its biggest instances are Mzalendo.com and pa.org.za https://www.mysociety.org/democracy/pombola/ https://github.com/mysociety/pombola
  • alaveteli This is an open source project to create a standard, internationalised platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in different countries around the world. The software started off life as WhatDoTheyKnow, a website produced by mySociety for making FOI requests in the UK. http://alaveteli.org/ https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli

  • OpenSpending OpenSpending is a free, open and global platform to search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere. Start searching, or read on to contribute data, code, or domain expertise. https://openspending.org/ https://github.com/openspending

  • SayIt Bringing transcripts into the Internet age. For councils and organisations that hold public meetings. An open source tool for making transcripts really easy to read, search and share on the modern web. Still publishing meeting transcripts on PDFs? SayIt makes it easier for your readers to find the parts that really interest them. Unlike crusty old PDFs, SayIt works beautifully on every device from a phone to a tablet to a desktop. And it’s accessible for screenreaders and assistive devices. https://sayit.mysociety.org/

Proposals and priorization

  • e-petitions Create or sign a petition that asks for a change to the law or to government policy. After 10,000 signatures, petitions get a response from the government. After 100,000 signatures, petitions are considered for debate in Parliament. https://petition.parliament.uk/ https://github.com/alphagov/e-petitions
  • Online Collection Software to support European Citizens' Initiatives We can provide you with a reusable tool that permits the online collection of statements of support in a way that complies with the Regulation on the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) regarding the format and data collected, as well as with security and technical requirements. The software makes it easier for organisers of ECIs to comply with legal requirements and to have their online collection systems certified by the relevant Member State authorities. https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions/ocs-ecis-0_en

Voting

  • Agora voting Our software is built in the open with the community. This maintains the project independence of political or corporate interest. Security focused: Agora Voting has a strong focus on security. Thanks to multi-layer security measures, you can focus on your election: Agora Voting maintains the legitimacy of the results. Adapted to your needs: Each election has different needs. That's why we built Agora Voting with a modularized and flexible architecture http://agoravoting.org https://github.com/agoravoting
  • Helios voting Helios offers verifiable online elections. We believe democracy is important, whether it’s your book club, parent-teacher association, student government, workers’ union, or state. So we’ve made truly verifiable elections as easy as everything else on the Web. Helios elections are: private: no one knows how you voted. verifiable: each voter gets a tracking number. proven: Helios is open-source, vetted by top-tier experts, and in use by major organizations. More than 100,000 votes have been cast using Helios. https://heliosvoting.org/ https://github.com/benadida/helios-server

Communities

  • Elgg Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients. https://elgg.org/ https://github.com/elgg/elgg

Propietary

  • CitizenLab CitizenLab is a civic engagement platform that allows citizens to co-create their city. Our solution is the medium for municipalities and all types of governments to make decision-making more democratic, transparent and collaborative. CitizenLab aims at making tomorrow’s governments more citizen-centric, through user-friendly cloud software, insightful data analytics and a focus on mobile. https://www.citizenlab.co/ https://www.citizenlab.co/ebooks-nl/handleiding-digitale-democratie

  • Colab.re Colab.re is a Civic Engagement app that is already being used by more than 10 city-halls around Brazil. Colab.re analyzes how well the population is being served by public services in real time, and makes it possible for this data to guide public policy-making processes. The platform enables public management to be integrated with the social network through digital technology, allowing citizens to assess the quality of their cities. https://www.colab.re/

  • Cityzn DISCONTINUED Co-create your city. The Global Citizenship App, activate your city from your smartphone. The App that brings transparency and collaboration to your city. Cityzn is a common and efficient language among active citizens and their municipalities, which contributes to the digitization of cities through an innovative platform that serves as a meeting point for decision-making. http://www.cityzn.com/#/

  • Citizenbudget Citizen Budget online simulator is a powerful and innovative tool that helps you build better community relations, educate your residents and solicit their feedback on your budget consultation. https://www.citizenbudget.com/

  • Citizen Space Organise and publish all your consultations easily. Used for more than 16,000 consultations, Citizen Space is easy-to-use and engaging for citizens. https://www.delib.net/citizen_space

  • Future Dialog Digital engagement platform for getting better insights from your community. Allowing you to collect more data and understanding with fewer resources in less time. https://www.futuredialog.fi/

  • See Click Fix SeeClickFix allows you to play an integral role in public services — routing neighborhood concerns like potholes and light outages to the right official with the right information. https://seeclickfix.com/

Open data

Others

  • Mocca Mobile Phone Signature & Citizen Card. The Citizen Card provided by Austrian government requires a separate Citizen Card Environment for local use. Mocca (Modular Open Citizen Card Architecture) is recommended by the Federal Chancellery. The software is free and open source. https://www.buergerkarte.at/en/downloads-card.html

  • CitySDK CitySDK is a “service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities. CitySDK APIs enable new services and applications to be rapidly developed, scaled and reused through providing a range of tools and information for both cities and developers. http://www.citysdk.eu/

  • WriteIt Write and send messages to public figures. WriteIt makes sending and archiving messages to public figures, private organizations, and internal teams easier than ever before. https://github.com/ciudadanointeligente/write-it

  • European Union Public License (EUPL) The European Union Public Licence is a unique and open source licence created by the European Commission that is available in 23 official EU languages and can be used by anyone. The purpose of EUPL is to encourage public administrations, starting with the EU institutions themselves, to embrace the free and open source model. It is legally consistent with the copyright law of all 28 Member states, and supports other popular open source licences. It is especially well-suited for public administrations and interoperability tools shared on Joinup. https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions/european-union-public-licence-eupl_en

  • publiccode.yml Many great software projects are developed by public administrations, however, reuse of these projects is very limited. Some of the reasons for low uptake of these projects is a lack of discoverability and that it is hard to find out what project can actually work in the context of a different public administration. The publiccode.yml file is meant to solve these problems. It is an easily readable file for civil servants that are trying to figure out whether a project will work for them, and easily readable for computers. https://github.com/publiccodenet/publiccode.yml NOT WIDELY ADOPTED

Experimental

  • Turnometro is a web tool for more effective & inclusive assemblies. It wants to be useful for any kind of face-to-face deliberation by promoting brevity & structure, a more equal & balanced use of the right to speak, and the airing & recording of (dis)agreements & emotions.) https://github.com/elzr/Turnometro

Discontinued or discarded

  • Open E-Map (Only in Finish) Open eMap is a completely open source javascript framework for integrating map functionality in web applications http://www.oemap.org/

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