Editing Apps and Software related to Government and Politics

The purpose of this page is to list all apps, software and websites related to government and politics. We will also have an overview of these items. Doing this will let us know what platforms exist out there and what their features are. This will give us ideas for our own software and apps, as well serve as a database for such items.

Distinctions:
* App: For phones, tablet
* Software: Can be used for Desktop computers and Laptops
* Websites: Online platform accessible from any device

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==Apps, Software and Websites related to Improving Politics and Governmental Leadership==
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! Name & Link !! Platform Type (App, Software or Website) !! Category !! Country !! Short Summary !! Non-commercial? !! Pros/Cons !! Quotes from Reviews
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/political-app/id1362205994 Political App]  || App (iPad) || Political Engagement; Voting Assistance ||Unites States|| Find, contact, and rate government representatives. Register to vote and alerts about upcoming elections * || - || - || -
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| [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1776/id1454765097 1776 - U.S. Politics App]  || App (iPad) || Politician Monitoring ||United States || Track activities of politicians, see histories of bills submitted and more * (important app)|| - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coalichain/id1443818966?ls=1 Coalichain]  || App (iPad) ||Election Platform ||United States ||Platform that facilitates organizations, different groups, companies and political parties to hold transparent and fair elections on the basis of blockchain technology. [https://www.coalichain.io Coalichain website]*|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/politiscope/id1437596546 politiscope]  || App (iPad) ||Political Engagement ||United States ||Offers simplified information about government policies and elected officials. Allows users to follow bills, get voting data, contact and follow politicians.*|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/id806362003?l=en VoteSpotter]  || App (iPad) ||Political Engagement ||United States ||Shows how legislators vote on bills that allows users to compare and share their opinions to elected officials by connecting to them.* [https://votespotter.com VoteSpotter website]*|| - || - || -
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| [https://voteforpolicies.org.uk Vote for policies]  ||Web App||Voting Advice||United Kingdom||Conducts survey based on issues important to the users, provides results that can help them decide who to vote, connects them to the parties and their pledges, and tracks which pledges are fulfilled through [https://policytracker.org.uk/ Policy Tracker].*|| - || - ||-
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| [http://www.whoshallivotefor.com Whoshallivotefor.com]  ||Web App||Voting Advice||United Kingdom||Provides quiz on different topics related to government policies, shows matching parties based on results, allows comparison to other constituency near the users' area and more.*|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.kieskompas.nl/en Kieskompas]  ||Web App||Voting Information||The Netherlands||Compares and shows information of voters' political views with the official views of political parties.*|| - || - ||
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| [https://play.app.goo.gl/?link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tp.TransparentPolitics&ddl=1&pcampaignid=web_ddl_1 Transparent Politics]  || App (Android) ||Government Legislation||United Kingdom||Helps users keep an eye on the government lawmaking activities, allows petition to the parliament and more.*|| - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/our-voice-usa/id1275301651 HelloVoter]  || App (iPad) ||Political Engagement||United States||Provides information of politicians in office allowing users to contact them, and permits canvassing.*|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/voteinfo/id1434819062 VoteInfo]  || App (iPad) ||Voting Information ||Switzerland ||Provides voting information about federal and canton votes, updates on election results, archives of past elections and more.*|| - || - ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iec-south-africa/id847345481?ls=1 IEC South Africa] || App (iPad) || Voting Assistance ||South Africa ||Shows voters, candidates and voting location information including election result updates.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://votemonitor.org Vote Monitor]  || Software ||Vote Monitoring||Romania||Collects data and reports from polling station observers or voters, and allows access of information to the public.*|| - || -
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| [http://democracyos.org Democracy OS]  || Software || Political  ||United States ||Platform for public proposals that are debated and voted to enhance political system.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://civis.vote Civis]  || Website || Opinion Polling || India || Draft legislation uploads for public opinion. Allows public participation in lawmaking by getting votes on policies and sending  the results to the Government.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.vote411.org Vote411.org]  || Website || Education || United States || Information and specifics about the election processes, registration, candidates and dates.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://democracy.earth Democracy Earth]  ||Website ||Citizen Participation ||United States || Enables [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting quadratic voting] and uses blockchain technology to achieve true democracy.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://dcentproject.eu D-CENT]  ||Website|| Political and Economic Information ||United Kingdom ||Provides tools that allows collaborative policy making and voting.* || - || - ||-
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==Other Apps, Software and Websites==
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countable.countableapp&hl=en_US Countable - Contact Congress] || App (Android) || Government Legislation || ? || Provides information about bills, resolutions and other important matters related to lawmaking; and allows users participate in the process. || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filament.icivics.counties Counties Work]  || App (Android) || Game -Government Simulation|| ? || Helps users experience governing a county without elections.|| - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moz.government Government]  || App (Android) || Game - Political Simulation || Various || Features 4 different time periods (1945 Britain, 1949 Germany, 2010 Britain and 2012 USA) where users can lead their party and adjust their stance to win. || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=oxiwyle.allcountriessimulatorsecond President Simulator Lite]  || App (Android) || Game - Political Simulation ||?||Let users rule and manage a country as its president.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rosenburgergames.randomnation RandomNation - Politics Game]  || App (Android) || Game - Political Simulation|| ? || Allows users experience the life of politicians including the role of a president of a nation.  || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allgovernment All Government Websites]  || App (Android) ||Site Links|| India || Contains lists of different sites of government agencies and departments. || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.bridgeoxfordinternational My Government App]  || App (Android) || Site Links || Kenya || Allows easier access to government services through the listed sites. || - || - || -  
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=parallel.keralagovtwebsite Kerala Government Websites]  || App (Android) || Site Links|| India|| Contains lists of government services websites of a specific state.|| - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nithra.tamilnadu.government.websites.apps.links Tamilnadu Government e-Websites and Apps]  || App (Android) || Site Links|| India || Provide links of government websites and apps that users can access to meet their needs in health, agriculture and other state government services. || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fal.eservicespakistan E-Services Pakistan]  || App (Android) || Site Links ||Pakistan|| Tracks almost all government and private organization services. Features include Vehicle verification, passport information and driving license. || - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parallelinfo.govtdigitalservices Government Digital Services]  || App (Android) || Departments' Services|| India || Provides access to some of the government services like application for voter's ID and driver's license. || - || - || -  
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sg.ndi.sp SingPass Mobile]  || App (Android) ||  Personal Data Access|| Singapore || Provides an easy access of users data based on their transactions related to government services. || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.lsgkerala.mgov Samagra mGOV Services]  || App (Android) ||  Personal Data Access|| India ||Provides information to services like birth certificate verification, file tracking and more.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gob.kenroyroach.Directory Barbados Government Directory]  || App (Android) ||Directory||Barbados|| Bears sites, contact details and address with maps of most of the government's departments. || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.govdir.iga Government Directory]  || App (Android) ||Directory||Bahrain|| Shows lists of government entities with contact details, social media accounts and maps. Includes employee directory.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.mygov.mobile MyGov] ||App (Android) || Social Services||India||Permits participation in different government activities such as policy formation and program implementation.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deg.mdubai DubaiNow]  || App (Android) ||Public Services||Dubai||Offers unified government services from 22 entities including residency visas, public transportation and more. || - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mcit.yesser.saudi Saudi e-Government Mobile App.]  || App (Android) ||Delete||Saudi||About information lacks, and outdated (updated on 2013)|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.dhs.tsa.mytsa MyTSA]  || App (Android) ||Transportation||United States||Provides access to information commonly asked by passengers of different airlines.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.govpk.citizensportal Pakistan Citizen Portal] ||App (Android) ||Grievance Redressal||Pakistan||Processes complaints and connects to all levels of government organizations from federal to provincial to resolve issues. || - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sssproject SSS Mobile]  || App (Android) ||Social Security - Finance
||Philippines||Allows members to check records and status of benefits, apply for salary loans and more. || - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swamypublishers.spapp Swamy Publishers App]  || App (Android) ||Employees' Manual ||India||Shows information about different aspects of government service including Central Civil Service Rules, Office Memorandums and Case-laws for government employees.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hk.gov.ogcio.govhknotify GovHKNotifications]  || App (Android) ||Emergency Alerts|| Hong Kong||Disseminates government information or alerts relevant to the users.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.ab.gov.aea Alberta Emergency Alert]  || App (Android) ||Emergency Alerts||Canada||Alerts and provides critical information when approaching disasters are detected.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ae.government.smartpass SmartPass]  || App (Android) ||Services Access||UAE||Allows access to multiple UAE Government services using one account.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cris.org.in.prs.ima IRCTC Rail Connect]  || App (Android) ||Transportation||India||Offers train ticketing services like reservation or booking of tickets and transaction status updates.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nic.eproc Govt e-Procurement System - NIC]  || App (Android) ||Procurement||India||Provides access to details of tenders published by government entities.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adventure.govinfo GovInfo - government schemes, jobs & scholarships]  || App (Android) ||Publication and Schemes||India||Shows government information such as schemes, job alerts and scholarships.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snedan.firebasetest Schemy (Government Schemes)]  || App (Android) ||Publication and Schemes||India||Links to information about government schemes such as application for agricultural insurance, pensions, and more.|| - || -  ||- 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neseapl.pacgov P@CGov]  || App (Android) ||Social Security - Finance||Singapore||Provides access to information of government officers and pensioners pay, claims and medical bills. || - || - || -
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| [http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/index.php Who Should You Vote For]  || Web App||Voting Advice||United Kingdom||Contains simple election and political quizzes which shows which parties match with the users' quiz results.|| - || - ||-
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| [http://www.whogetsmyvoteuk.com/#!/articles/public/AboutUs WhoGetsMyVoteUK]  ||Web App||Voting Advice||United Kingdom||Helps users determine the political parties that match with their preferences by answering questions, and allows access of information about the positions of participating parties.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://euandi2019.eu/survey/default/EN euandi2019] ||Web App||Voting Advice||European Countries||Matches political preferences of users with the political parties by providing statements about policy issues and political values they can react to.|| - || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.negativevote.org Negative Vote Association]  ||Website||Voting Advice||Taiwan||Allows users cast negative votes to politicians they do not like.|| - || - ||-
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| [http://votecompass.com Vote Compass] ||Web App||Voting Advice||Various||Analyse and compares response to questions provided and shows compatibility of the voters in the political landscape.|| - || - ||-
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| [http://spaceu2019.eu spaceu2019]  ||Web App||Election Database||European Countries||Provides information such as electoral rights, and allows comparison of conditions and requirements in the election process based on their country of residence and citizenship, but is not available as of this moment of writing.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://trustthevote.org TrustTheVote]  ||Website||Voting/Election System||United States||Builds election technology framework and open source software.|| - || - ||-
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| [http://www.cavo-us.org/index.html CAVO]  ||Website||Voting/Election System||United States||Creates open source voting software and components.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.uclg.sdgs Sustainable Development Goals]  || App (Android) ||Local Government||Spain||Provides information about sustainable development goals to guide local governments.|| - || - || 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rivalregions.rivalregions Rival Regions: world strategy of war and politics]  || App (Android) ||Game - War and Politics ||Various||A simulation game where users can create their states, political parties, laws and media. They can also declare war to expand their empire and manage factories.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinqmarsmedia.polititruth&hl=en PolitiTruth: A PolitiFact Game]  || App (Android) ||Game - Fact Checker||United States||Helps users determine how factual political information or stories they read or heard. || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moz.politics Big Politics Inc. UK Edition]  || App (Android) ||Game - Political Simulation||United Kingdom||Features include creating or running a party, winning elections and passing of laws to influence change in the political landscape.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.pocketpolitics.google Pocket Politics: Idle Money]  || App (Android) ||Game - Political Simulation||United States||Emphasizes on political ranks, campaign and profits.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filament.icivics.executivecommand Executive Command]  || App (Android) ||Game - Government Simulation ||? || Allows users experience the roles of a president of a nation with 4 years term. || - || - || - 
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luchik.countrymania Country statistics: gdp, politics, population, etc]  || App (Android) ||Political and Economic Information||Various||Provides various information about countries political and economic indices such as GDP, population and more.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tototomato.politicalleadership Political Leadership]  || App (Android) ||Political Education||?||Provides references that may widen political knowledge. || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.learnpro.ahps American History and Political Sciences]  || App (Android) ||Political eBooks||United States||An eBook app that contains books about American history. Helps widen political knowledge.|| - ||-|| -
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| [https://market.android.com/details?id=com.soh.soh Show of Hands]  || App (Android) ||Delete||?||Allows users to answer questions related to different issues and publish their polls.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.felipe.truedemocracy True Democracy]  || App (Android) ||Game - Political Simulation||Various||Gives players a chance to be elected to lead their country and act as a true government leader. || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.NIDB.MxDemocracy Mx. Democracy]  || App (Android) ||Game - Election Education||India||Lets a player "embarks upon a quest to learn all about elections in India."|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DamianBernardi.LawsofCivilization Laws of Civilization]  || App (Android) ||Game - Political Simulation||Various||Provides an experience of being a politician leading a nation based on the users choice. Features include running for elections, approving/abolishing laws, brainwash other politicians and more.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.oppressive.power POWER - Political Strategy MMO]  || App (Android) ||Game - Political Simulation||Various||Allow users play as a politician or a businessman who "can seize the highest offices in the land through free and fair elections, or dirty tricks and deals."|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turtleye.democracy Democracy - Polls and Votes]  || App (Android) ||Poll||Various||Permits anyone to start a poll then vote on it, and "crowd sources topics/issues from users and provides a forum for general population to share their point of view. "|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vocaleyesmobile  VocalEyes - Community organising]  || App (Android) ||Community Engagement||?||A "platform for participatory democracy" that focuses on "Helping organisations, groups and communities turn good ideas into action."  || - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.democracydeutschland.app Democracy]  || App (Android) ||Government Legislation||Germany||"...makes the whole parliamentary database searchable for you and shows you in real time all current, past and future votes of the German Bundestag..."|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.historyisfun.democracy Democracy History]  || App (Android) ||Democracy Reference||Various||Provides references and other details related to democracy.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.app.goo.gl/?link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airsenze.bchighways&ddl=1&pcampaignid=web_ddl_1 BC Highways - Road Conditions]  || App (Android) ||Traffic Navigation||Canada||Provides information on Highway Network such as road condition and incidents, traffic status and more.|| - || - || 
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| [https://play.app.goo.gl/?link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cgg.gov.ghmc&ddl=1&pcampaignid=web_ddl_1 My GHMC]  || App (Android) ||Government Services||India||Gives integrated services including payment of property tax, trade license fee, and accepts civic related grievances.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.qluein.android&hl=en Qlue - Smart City App]  || App (Android) ||Social Services||Indonesia||"A social media app that allows users to report problems directly to the city government and businesses, as well as sharing  to the neighbors around them in order to help creating Smart City." Sends reports to the concerned officials in real time.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.voicemap.android VoiceMap AudioTours]  || App (Android) ||Delete||Various||Works like a map and at the same time a tour guide.|| - || - || -
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mybenta.voteup VoteUp - Senate Elections Philippines 2019]  || App (Android) ||Voting Guide||Philippines||Collects and shares available information about candidates, and allows users to vote for the candidate they prefer before the election to show/share rankings.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/factstream/id1327422405 FactStream]  || App (iPad) ||Fact Reference||United States||Gathers "together the work of the three largest U.S. fact-checking organizations – the Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org." and shows those information based on users' preferences.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goods-unite-us/id1295147058 Goods Unite Us - Open Politics]  || App (iPad) ||Political Guidance||United States|| Track political donations made by over 4,000 brands, companies and their senior employees (great ratings, more popular than other apps) || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/election-the-game/id1143061257 Election the Game]  || App (iPad) || Game - Political Simulation || Unknown || Manage elections, manipulate/bribe voters || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/we-vote-ballot-guide-wevote/id1347335726 We Vote Ballot Guide, @WeVote]  || App (iPad) || Voting Assistance ||United States|| Helps people decide how to vote; match your values to your vote.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-political-quarterly/id1123929107 The Political Quarterly]  || App (iPad) ||Education || United Kingdom || Provides analysis, research, informed opinions on politics and public policy.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wevote-by-committee-of-70/id1436524715 WeVote by Committee of 70]  || App (iPad) || Voting Assistance || United States || Learn about candidates, voting guides, connect with others, earn points for activities || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-congressional-record/id492077075 The Congressional Record]  || App (iPad) || News||United States|| "contains the debates, proceedings, and activities of the Congress", browse the 'Congressional Record' || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/debt-clock-usa-world-countries-national-debt/id1213071226 Debt Clock - USA, World Countries National debt]  || App (iPad) ||News|| United States|| Provides various types of data about the national debt of 180+ countries|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trakbill/id608487340 TrackBill: Legislation Tracker]  || App (iPad) || Legislative Monitoring || United States || Browse and monitor state and federal legislative information, bills, amendments. App website: [https://trackbill.com/ trackbill.com] || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ballottrax/id1214500178 Ballottrax]  || App (iPad) ||Political Engagement; Voting Assistance ||United States|| Helps people track their ballot information and contact representatives. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/congress-contact/id1064557307 Congress Contact]  || App (iPad) || Political Engagement ||United States||Contact elected representatives (Senate and House of Representatives)|| - || - || 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/engaging-congress/id1309161238 Engaging Congress]  || App (iPad) || Game; Public Education || United States || a "game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items" to help increase awareness about politics || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/powerline/id820884995 Powerline]  || App (iPad) ||Community Engagement ||United States ||Assists leaders and communities with communicating through polling, petitions and discussion,alerts, microblogging, groups, fundraising and social sharing.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/civicmobile/id1278189882 CivicMobile]  || App (iPad) ||Local Government Services ||United States||Provides information about local government services.|| - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/na/app/hear-my-voice/id1090523901 HearMyVoice-Mobile democracy for the civic minded.]  || App (iPad) ||Political Engagement||United States ||Learn major political issues, future elections and it's comparisons. Register for voting and connect representatives. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brigade-make-change-together/id999195922 Brigade: Make Change Together]  || App (iPad) ||Social Engagement||United States ||Helps to make opinion on major issues like taxes and climate change. Raise you issue, start compaigns, organize with your friends and contact compaign leaders. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/democracydelivered/id1268333416 DemocracyDelivered]  || App (iPad) ||Social Networking ||United States||Let people to recognize, discuss, rate issues in human life. Connect with people and businesses, highlight issues in blog discussion. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/empowr/id973298477 empowr]  || App (iPad) ||Social Networking ||Unites States ||Provides possibilities to people and shares revenue with them. Communicate with your friends through likes and comments.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/puritan-boston-tests-democracy/id1166400418 Puritan Boston Tests Democracy]  || App (iPad) ||Education ||Unites States||Provides reference to initial 60 years of Boston's history and database of it's historical events from 1929 to 1691. Includes more than 30 sites data and biological information of above 30 individuals, access to resources in congregational library and archives. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisconsin-democracy-campaign/id943488753 Wisconsin Democracy Campaign]  || App (iPad) ||Political Monitoring ||United States||Monitors government, advocate common good, moral values and accountability. Tracks finance in politics, runs compaigns for reforms, fair elections and democracy. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outvote/id1302881906 Outvote]  || App (iPad) ||Voting Assistance ||United States ||Provides voting details, resources and discuss important issues. Help your candidate get selected through campaigns, fundraise and organizing events.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kākou/id1448351630 KĀKOU]  || App (iPad) ||Civil Engagement ||United States ||Find, connect representatives and officials. Participate in legislative process and communicate with legislative committees, track important issues and bills. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/digital-democracy/id1251942960 Digital Democracy]  || App (iPad) ||Civil Participation ||United States||Improves people participation and contribution. Serve people, companies and NGO's to participate and contribute in the sphere of education, health, culture and economy. Uses gamification to increase involvement.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/usa-simulator/id917696993 USA Simulator]  || App (iPad) ||Game- Political Simulation ||United States ||Provides an experience of being a politician running a country. Features include, earning money, increasing authority and controlling economy. || - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voterpal-register-today/id1164584187 VoterPal]  || App (iPad) ||Voter Registration|| United States || Helps people register for voting. || - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/politics-classics-hd/id373547194 Politics Classics HD]  || App (iPad) ||Political References|| Various || Books and Literature about politics and government. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kratos-build-your-democracy/id1198595150 Kratos Build your democracy]  || App (iPad) || Voter (?) || United States || "track legislation that you care about, and allows you to engage with your elected representatives" ([https://getkratos.com/ app website]) || - || - || 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vote-clicker-americas-next-president/id1111416234 Vote Clicker: America's Next President]  || App (iPad) || Game - Political Simulation || United States || Run an election campaign, "Upgrade election campaign assets to earn more votes per second"  || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/au/app/v-democracy/id1220448735 V Democracy]  || App (iPad) || Delete || UK || (not significant: app website is down, no downloads, screenshots are not final) || - || - ||- 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voatz/id1055118562 Voatz]  || App (iPad) || Online Election|| United States || "vote in all kinds of elections or voting events" || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scars-of-democracy/id1446393365 Scars of Democracy]  || App (iPad) || Art etc. || Various || Paintings of political leaders with tattoos representing various things. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/governeye/id1350354177 GovernEye]  || App (iPad) || Discussion/Engagement || India || "discussions about governance, politics and social issues", "conduct public discussions, get lawmakers' updates, organize and participate in an online protest march, understand the trends in opinions on national issues and most importantly, receive alerts about fake news || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/democracy-3/id882525717 Democracy 3]  || App (iPad) ||Game- Political Simulation ||United States||Models global economy, different voters and situations of a country that a player must handle to achieve his/her goals for the virtual country he/she runs.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/civicmobile/id1278189882 CivicMobile]  || App (iPad) ||Local Government Services ||United States||Allows access to local government departments’ information like business and staff directory.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/app/id999579992 Boston Trash Schedule & Alerts]  || App (iPad) ||Trash Issues||United States || Provides information and notifications about garbage and recycling schedules. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commonwealth-connect/id585785702?ls=1 Commonwealth Connect]  || App (iPad) ||Community Problem Resolution ||United States ||Gathers reports of issues and problems in municipalities to be solved by the assigned local government unit.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/pure-force-citizens-app/id989719070 Pure Force Citizens App]  || App (iPad) ||Community Problem Resolution ||Philippines ||Sends reported issues that affects human lives to the right government agencies for a quick resolution. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/sakay-ph/id937998546 Sakay.ph – Commute Directions]  || App (iPad) ||Transportation ||Philippines ||Shows routes of different transit modes like buses/jeepneys, and provides direction to commuters. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boston-citizens-connect/id330894558 BOS:311]  || App (iPad) ||Community Problem Resolution ||United States || Accepts reports of neighborhood issues and sends them to the City’s server for action.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parkboston/id953579075 ParkBoston]  || App (iPad) ||Parking Services ||United States ||Gives a way to pay for parking and access to parking information like history, charges and receipts. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/street-bump/id528964742 Street Bump]  || App (iPad) ||Local Government Services ||United States||Gathers data about the streets through a built-in sensor to be used to find and fix street problems. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boston-paytix/id1068651854 Boston PayTix]  || App (iPad) ||Utility Services ||United States ||Offers parking services focused on payments of tickets. || - || - ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/au/app/my-local-services/id814144172 My Local Services]  || App (iPad) ||Local Government Services ||United States ||Delivers information about recycling, waste collection and parks. Report issues to authorities. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/mx/app/supercívicos/id1154772570 Supercívicos - Neighborhood Report]  || App (iPad) ||Community Problem Resolution ||Spain || Shows reports of problems in municipalities and collects the information to serve as basis for the government in policy creation or in creating an action plan. Encourages civil participation and stores data of the incidences. || - || -  ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nextdoor-neighborhood-app/id640360962 Nextdoor - Neighborhood App]  || App (iPad) ||Neighborhood Social Networking||United States ||Shows specific recommendations, news and alerts based on users’ locations or preferences and connects them to their neighbors. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gov2go/id986930769 Gov2Gov]  || App (iPad) ||Transaction Assistance ||United States ||Assists users in different government transactions by knowing and remembering the information they provide. || - || -  ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/au/app/snap-sendsolve/id377854149?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Snap Send Solve]  || App (iPad) ||Local Government Services ||Australia, New Zealand ||Used to notify local councils and authorities about issues to be addressed in the community.|| - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/in/app/umang/id1236448857 UMANG]  || App (iPad) ||Government Services ||India ||Provides access to different government agencies’ services like healthcare, finance and education. || - || - || -
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voxvote/id842674822 VoxVote]  || App (iPad) ||Voting Assistance ||Netherlands ||Connects audience with presenter. Enables audience for voting on question and opinion, displays voting results graphically. || - || - ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voteup-fast-group-voting/id793317791 VoteUp: Fast group voting]  || App (iPad) ||Voting Platform||United States ||Enables casting of vote, sharing polls on social networks and sending poll invitations. || - || - ||-
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| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wiser-for-iphone-ipod-touch/id375185381 WISER Response] || App (iPad) || Medical Services || United States||Guides emergency responders by providing important information to save lives. || - || - ||-
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| [https://codeforall.org Code for All]  || Software ||Civil Participation || ? || Enables organization collaboration to solve social issues through digital technology. || - || - ||- 
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| [https://code4.ro/en/  Code for Romania]  || Software ||Social Engagement ||Romania || Creates tools such as programs and apps that may solve political and societal problems. || - || - || -
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| [https://civiclabs.ro/en/about Civic Labs]  || Software ||Social Improvement||Romania|| [https://code4.ro/en/  Code for Romania] program that provides solutions to social problems by creating innovative technology. || - || - ||-
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| [https://tfsg.code4.ro/en/ Tech For Social Good]  || Software || Social Improvement||Romania ||[https://code4.ro/en/  Code for Romania] program where tech solutions are addressed and developed. || - || -||-
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| [https://www.icompasstech.com/solutions/ iCompass]  || Software ||Local Government Services || United States || Offers management solutions to local governments. || - || - ||-
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| [https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom TurboTax]  || Software ||Tax Assistance ||United States ||Helps qualified tax payers prepare or file their state and federal taxes.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://codefor.ca Code for Canada]  || Software ||Community Networking ||United States || Connects with governments through its programs that helps them interact with the residents and businesses with digital technology.  || - || - || -
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| [https://www.citizens.is Citizens Foundation]  || Software ||Civil Participation||Iceland || Develops tools that promotes open participation, and helps governments build democratic digital platforms.|| - || - || -
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| [https://openstates.org Open States]  || Website || Political Monitoring|| United States|| Provides data related to state legislatures that enables the public to see how their representatives vote on policies and more. || - || - ||-
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| [https://studentvote.ca  Student Vote]  || Website || Education || Canada || Platform to teach students about elections, by providing a medium for students to become part of an election process. || - || - ||-
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| [https://represent.me Represent]  || Web App || Opinion Polling || United Kingdom || Platform for creating a variety of opinion surveys, feedback, comments and votes. App website: [https://app.represent.me/pages/about/ Represent]. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.ushahidi.com Ushahidi]  || App || Crowdsourcing || Kenya || Monitoring of situations using maps and geographic locations. Crowdsourcing data and graphics. || - || - ||-
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| [https://index.okfn.org Global Open Data Index (GODI)]  || Website || Open Data || Germany || Reports on open data sources, survey feedback and statistics. Public accessibility to Data. || - || - ||-
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| [https://decidim.org Decidim]  || Web App || Citizen Participation || Spain || Open sourced software for the development of Citizen Participation datasets. || - || - ||-
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| [http://consulproject.org Consul]  || Website ||Civil Participation ||United States ||Open source software platform that encourages participation by providing spaces where people can debate on topics, create proposals and more.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://liquid.us Liquid]  ||Website ||Community Mobilization ||United States || Promotes [https://blog.liquid.us/2016/09/21/what-is-liquid-democracy/ liquid democracy] by showing information like politicians' scorecards and lists of candidates supporting digital democracy.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.nesta.org.uk Nesta]  ||Website ||Digital Services|| United Kingdom || Helps provide solutions to social issues through innovative technological approaches.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://mivote.com MiVote]  ||Website ||Political Assistance ||United States || Platform for voting and connecting community to elected representatives. || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-stand-for/ Electoral Reform Society]  ||Website ||Political Engagement ||United Kingdom ||Campaigns to promote democratic reforms,enhance political system and strengthen public participation. || - || - ||-
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| [https://democracyclub.org.uk/ Democracy Club]  ||Website || Electoral Democracy ||United States||Coordinates with volunteers to gather data that are processed to create tools that provides voters election information.*|| - || - ||-
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| [https://webrootsdemocracy.org/about/ Web Roots Democracy]  ||Website ||Political Assistance ||United Kingdom || Provides research information related to voting systems and projects. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.theyworkforyou.com TheyWorkForYou]  ||Website ||Political Monitoring ||United Kingdom || Shows data gathered from different platforms to enable monitoring of the Parliament including the representatives' profile, votes and written answers.* || - || - ||-
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| [https://my.gov.au/mygov/content/html/about.html myGov]  ||Website ||Government Services || Australia || Integrates government services allowing ease of access to government related information or transactions. || - || - ||-
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| [http://www.fdsd.org Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development]  ||Website ||Economic Information ||United Kingdom ||Addresses challenges, helps to achieve sustainable development. || - || - ||-
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| [http://www.oecd.org/about/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]  ||Website ||Economic Information || ? ||Works to build policies for better lives, builds policies to enhance prosperity, equality and development.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.idea.int International IDEA]  ||Website||Political and Economic Information  ||Sweden ||Supports building, strengthening and safeguarding political institutions, promotes sustainable development.|| - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.asef.org Asia-Europe Foundation]  ||Website || Social Cooperation|| Singapore||Strengthen Asia-europe ties, enhance mutual understanding, explore opportunities for cooperation.|| - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.fes-philippines.org Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Philippines]  ||Website ||Social Assistance ||Philippines ||Promotes political education, think tanks to strengthen social democracy, supports young class. || - || - ||-
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| [https://seed.uw.edu SEED - Solution for Environment, Economy, and Democracy]  ||Website ||Political and Economic Assistance ||Unites States ||Provides solutions for environment, economy and democracy. || - || - || -
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| [http://aceproject.org/about-en/ ACE Electoral Knowledge Network]  ||Website ||Voting Information ||United States ||Provides information of electoral processes, promotes sustainable and professional electoral processes in the world. || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://grade.dc.gov/page/view-grades Grade.DC.gov]  ||Website ||Customer Services and Feedback || United States|| Enables customers to give feedback and helps government agencies to improve customer care. || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.elucd.com Elucd]  ||Website ||Political Assistance ||United States ||Facilitates leaders to improve trust and safety using data, helps leaders to monitor how people think about trust and safety, develop strategies for improvement. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.chicagofed.org/region/community-development/data/pcit Peer City Identification Tool (PCIT)]  ||Website ||Community Engagement ||United States ||Provides tool helping policy makers understand a municipality in the context of peer cities.  || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.transformrockford.org Transform Rockford]  ||Website ||Community Engagement ||United States ||Source providing community members to show their ideas and implement to improve social, economic well-being of the region. || - || - ||-
|-
| [http://forums.e-democracy.org/about/ E-Democracy]  ||Website ||Civil Participation || United States||Uses tool to support participation in public life, build communities and make them strong. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.data.gov Data.gov]  || Website ||Government Services ||United States ||Gives data, tools and resources to conduct research issues , develope web and mobile applications.  || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.opengovfoundation.org/#about OpenGov Foundation]  ||Website ||Political Engagement ||United States ||Engages officials with people, enables citizens understand decisions affecting their lives, families and business.  || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://demandprogress.org/about/ Demand Progress]  ||Website||Social Services ||United States|| Promotes policy changes for the betterment of common people. Focus uses of civil freedom, civil rights and government reform || - || - ||-
|-
| [http://www.rootstrikers.org/#!/page/about-us Rootstrikers]  || Website || Online Petitions || United States||Helps leaders to campaign for the betterment of people, provides solutions to improve lives of american people. || - || - ||-
|-
| [https://www.sixteenthirtyfund.org Sixteen Thirty Fund]  || Website||Economic Monitoring ||United States ||Monitors financial activities of foundations, charities. || - || - ||-
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| [https://capitalresearch.org Capital Research Center]  ||Website ||Economic Monitoring || United States ||Monitors financial activities of foundations and  charities.   || - || - ||-
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| [http://www.empowersf.org/#home The Neighborhood Empowerment Network’s Empowered Communities Program (ECP)]  ||Website ||Community Development || United States||Empowers community development, build and implement strategies to improve community capacity, protect health and safety of people.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.openproject.org OpenProject]  ||Website||Project Management ||United States ||Provides a tool to support your project management processes, project life cycle  || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.bettergov.org Better Government Association]  ||Website ||Government Monitoring ||United States ||Advocates transparency, efficiency and accountability in government.  || - ||-
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| [https://www.citysourced.com CitySourced]  ||Web App ||Local Government Services ||United States ||Offers cities and municipalities app solution for citizens.  || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.thepublicsquare.org.uk The Public Square website]  ||Website ||Community Engagement ||United Kingdom || - Makes research to monitor citizen involvement in making local decisions, helps councils, residents to improve local community. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.involve.org.uk/our-work/our-projects/practice/how-can-councils-engage-residents-tackle-local-issues? Involve Website]  ||Website ||Community Participation ||United Kingdom ||Facilitates councils engage residents to tackle local issues, involve citizens in decision making. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.writetothem.com Write To Them Website]  ||Website || Political Engagement ||United Kingdom|| Enables people to follow and connect with politicians and representatives.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://alaveteli.org Alaveteli Software]  ||Website ||Political Engagement ||United Kingdom ||Empowers citizens to make their representatives accountable, help citizen request and access information. || - || - ||-
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| [http://findnfix.ca Find N' Fix]  || App ||Local Government Services||Canada || Rewards to people, who reports issues like signage and lighting.  || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.mysociety.org/democracy/ mySociety]  ||Website || Political Information ||United Kingdom ||Provides data and tool to support democratic systems , promotes civil participation.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.thersa.org the RSA]  || Website ||Business Information ||United Kingdom ||Promotes arts, manufacturers and commerce, enrich society through ideas and action. || - || - ||-
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| [https://gds.blog.gov.uk Government Digital Service]  ||Web App ||Digital Services ||United Kingdom ||Collaborates with departments, help them with their transformation. builds platform, standards and digital services. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.civicgovcloud.com CIVICgov]  ||Web app||Local Government Services ||United Kingdom ||Software facilitates government in municipal management, community and land management, increase external collaboration with citizens and businesses. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.agora.vote Agora]  || Website ||Voting Assistance || United States||Provides secure and transparent digital voting platform for governments and organizations.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://adhocracy.de Adhocracy.de]  ||Website ||Civil Participation || ? || Platform enables people and communities for democratic participation. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.appgree.com/appgree/en/ Appgree]  ||App ||Departmental Monitoring || ? ||Provides data to let understand your customers and employess. || - || - ||-
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| [https://liquidfeedback.org LiquidFeedback]  || Website || Voting Information ||Netherlands ||Enables people to start initiative to let others know know about your initiatives, suggestion on initiative. || - || - ||-
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| [https://www.loomio.org Loomio]  ||App ||Community Engagement ||New Zealand||Helps people discuss and make decisions together to improve cooperation and consensus. || - || - ||-
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| [https://rousseau.movimento5stelle.it Rousseau]  ||Website ||Civil Participation ||Italy ||Take part in the change, make your voice heard, express ideas, follow and monitor your representatives. || - || - ||-
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| [http://sovereign.software Sovereign]  ||App ||Management Services|| ?  ||Provides redistributed governance platform for small and large organizations. || - || - ||-
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| [https://democracy.foundation/epitome/ Epitome]  ||Website ||Civil Participation || ? ||Enables people to develop proposals to report issues, users identify issues and improve them.  || - || - ||- 
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| [https://republique-et-canton-de-geneve.github.io/chvote-1-0/index-en.html CHVote]  ||Website ||Voting Assistance ||Switzerland ||Provides secure, transparent and reliable E-voting system.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://www.opengovpartnership.org/about/ Open Government Partnership]  || Website ||Government Services ||United States ||Promotes reform inside and outside the government, transform services that government provides to it`s citizens, Empower civil society, advocates for partnership|| - || - ||-
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| [http://www.businessofgovernment.org IBM Center for The Business of Government]  ||Website||Government Services ||United States ||Focuses on public management, issues facing government departments at all levels.|| - || - ||-
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| [https://fossasia.org/about/#background FOSSASIA]  ||Website||Digital Services ||Singapore ||Improves people lives by sharing tech solutions, people access to digital tools. || - || - ||- 
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| [https://www.vevox.com/live-voting-app# Vevox]  ||App ||Voting Assistance || United Kingdom ||Engage participants, allows to vote, share , feedback and interact with audiences. || - || - ||-
|}

==Links to Articles mentioning apps and software and websites==
* [https://www.curiouswriter.com/best-political-apps/ 5 Best Political Apps to Help You Resist, Stay Informed, and Take Action]
*[https://www.imore.com/best-apps-getting-politically-active/ Best apps for getting politically active (and a few you should avoid)]
* [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/11/128039/best-election-apps/ Best Election Apps, Political Apps] 
* [https://blog.liquid.us/2016/09/21/what-is-liquid-democracy/ What is Liquid Democracy? - The Liquid Blog - Liquid US]
* [https://dcentproject.eu/about-us/ Technologies for 21st Century democracy]
* [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/medianetwork/2016/aug/19/apps-for-democracy-open-data-and-the-future-of-politics/ Apps for democracy – open data and the future of politics]
* [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxbyb/democracy-by-app/ Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics? - VICE]
* [https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/02/24/liquid-democracy-uses-blockchain/amp/ Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it]
* [https://www.mivote.org.au Mivote]
* [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oecd.org/site/progresskorea/43586956.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjthsTtmZHjAhWMdHAKHe6vDUAQFjABegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw0s4IaYfnJVbVqdd_nHLLT8/ sitePDF Democracy as the Indicator of Sustainability - OECD.org]
* [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.devex.com/news/how-democracy-can-offer-the-best-system-to-achieve-development-88716&ved=2ahUKEwjthsTtmZHjAhWMdHAKHe6vDUAQFjACegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw2VUX4v5pCdJ2CrrUcghXRw/ How democracy can offer the 'best system' to achieve development Devex]
* [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2012.709684/ Democracy, democratization and climate change: complex relationships: Democratization: Vol 19, No 5 - Taylor & Francis Online]
* [https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2018/solutions-for-environment-economy-and-democracy-seed/ Solutions for environment, economy, and democracy (SEED) ACM Interactions - Association for Computing Machinery]
* [https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-users-one-app-are-influencing-local-government-mexico-city/ How users of an app are influencing local government in Mexico City British Council]
* [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/1/15515820/donald-trump-democracy-brexit-2016-election-europe&ved=2ahUKEwj0oNHOmInjAhXbfXAKHXTeDXYQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2YxwMUJ7esAo8UXI4eIrfq/ Two eminent political scientists: The problem with democracy is voters]
* [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2014/05/democracy-os/amp/ Out in the Open: An Open Source Website That Gives Voters a Platform to Influence Politicians]
* [https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/elections/research-roundup-political-polling/ Covering political polls: A cautionary research roundup]
* [https://www.n-r-c.com/your-citizen-survey-is-not-a-political-poll/ Your Citizen (21.5) Survey is NOT a Political Poll | National Research Center] 
* [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/11/10/18080518/blockchain-voting-mobile-app-west-virginia-voatz/ Nearly 150 West Virginians voted with a mobile blockchain app - The Verge]
* [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630180-400-better-than-a-ballot-box-could-digital-democracy-win-your-vote/amp/ Better than a ballot box: Could digital democracy win your vote?]
* [https://medium.com/govconnect/8-use-cases-for-mobile-apps-local-government-should-be-using-857b4ba128b1/ 8 Use Cases for Mobile Apps Local Government Should Be Using - Medium]
* [https://www.bettergov.org/ Better Government Association]
* [https://www.citysourced.com/ CitySourced]
* [https://www.governing.com/columns/tech-talk/gov-government-apps-usage.html/ Government Apps Are Popular, But Are They Useful?]
* [https://www.idea.int/data-tools/tools/integritas-threat-assessment-system#collapsedownload IntegriTAS]
* [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxbyb/democracy-by-app/ Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics?] 
* [https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-new-media-s-role-in-politics/ The New Media's Role in Politics - OpenMind]
* [https://medium.com/govconnect/8-use-cases-for-mobile-apps-local-government-should-be-using-857b4ba128b1/ 8 Use Cases for Mobile Apps Local Government Should Be Using - Medium]
* [https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/cool-gov-mobile-apps/ 19 of the Coolest Government Mobile Apps » Community]
* [http://nationswell.com/apps-review-government/ 4 Apps That Help Citizens Sound Off to Government]  
* [https://www.fulcrumapp.com/apps/categories/government/ State, Local, & Municipal Government Apps] 
* [http://nationswell.com/mobile-apps-local-governments-citizens-civic-engagement/ Mobile Apps Connect Local Governments and Citizens - NationSwell]
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/free/ GNU.FREE - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)]
* [https://jasonkitcat.com/about/wheres-the-free-e-democracy-project/ Where's the free e-democracy project?] 
* [https://www.capterra.com/government-software/ Best Government Software | 2019 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems]
* [https://www.govtech.com/e-government/7-Mobile-App-Development-Tips.html/ 7 Mobile App Development Tips for Local Governments - Government Technology] 
* [https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/government/2017/07/05/mobile-apps-empower-local-government-to-solve-social-challenges/ Mobile apps empower local government to solve social challenges - Microsoft Industry Blogs - Cloud Perspectives Blog]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2017/jan/23/seven-successful-government-digital-service-apps-technology/ Seven successful government apps from around the world] 
* [https://m.khaleejtimes.com/news/government/pakistan-government-app-wins-award-at-dubai-summit-imran-khan-hails-success/ Pakistan government app wins award at Dubai summit, Imran Khan hails success]
* [http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/open-source-open-government-critique-open-politics-0/ From open source to open government: A critique of open politics] 
*[https://scalingdemocracy.net/about/ About – Scalable Democracy]
* [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/digitaliberties/adhocracy-helps-create-future-of-political-engagement/ Adhocracy helps create a future of political engagement] 
* [https://privacyinternational.org/examples/2843/failures-five-star-movements-rousseau/ The failures of the Five Star Movement's Rousseau  Privacy International]
* [https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects/ Similar Projects – The Democracy Foundation]
* [https://www.ndi.org/our-stories/demtools-30-launch-putting-users-first-powers-technology-democracy/ DemTools 3.0 Launch: Putting Users First Powers Technology for Democracy] 
* [https://hackernoon.com/the-tools-we-need-to-implement-liquid-democracy-10cc5206891c/ The Tools We Need to Implement Liquid Democracy – Hacker Noon]
* [https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/21/political-apps-all-rage-trump-era/98063488/ Political apps are all the rage in Trump era]
*[https://m.economictimes.com/wealth/save/5-must-have-apps-for-government-services/articleshow/61794089.cms/  5 must have apps for government services - The Economic Times]
* [https://www.voxvote.com/ Free and Easy to use Mobile Voting]
* [https://www.capterra.com/polling-software/ Best Polling Software 2019 Reviews of the Most Popular Systems - Capterra]
* [https://doodle.com/voting-website/ The voting website that's free and easy to use! | Doodle]
* [https://medium.com/@abance/who-should-i-vote-for-there-s-not-an-app-for-that-88cf46532583/ Who should I vote for? There's (not) an app for that. - Medium]
*[https://www.mysociety.org/2015/03/20/a-list-of-voter-advice-applications-aka-who-should-i-vote-for-tools-for-the-uk-general-election/ A list of Voter Advice Applications – AKA 'who should I vote for?' tools – for the …] 
*[https://stateoftheunion.eui.eu/launch-voting-advice-application-euandi2019-press-conference/ Launch of the Voting Advice Application 'euandi2019' - Press Conference …] 
*[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/german-court-bans-popular-voting-advice-app-wahl-o-mat/a-48810066/  German court bans popular voting advice app Wahl-O-Mat] 
*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6383922/ Issue framing in online voting advice applications: The effect of left-wing and …] 
*[https://www.peopledemocracy.com/ Augmented Democracy] 
*[https://techonomy.com/2015/02/can-open-source-voting-tech-fix-u-s-elections-system/ Can Open-Source Voting Tech Fix the U.S. Elections System? - Techonomy]
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-:''Some links may be broken/ outdated''
 The purpose of this page is to list all apps, software and websites related to government and politics. We will also have an overview of these items. Doing this will let us know what platforms exist out there and what their features are. This will give us ideas for our own software and apps, as well serve as a database for such items.
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 * Software: Can be used for Desktop computers and Laptops
 * Websites: Online platform accessible from any device
+For help with how to search for these items see: [[Methods for Searching for Apps and software related to Govt and Politics]] (open in a new tab if needed)
 ==Apps, Software and Websites related to Improving Politics and Governmental Leadership==
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 | [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iec-south-africa/id847345481?ls=1 IEC South Africa] || App (iPad) || Voting Assistance ||South Africa ||Shows voters, candidates and voting location information including election result updates.* || - || - ||-
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-| [https://votemonitor.org Vote Monitor]  || Software ||Vote Monitoring||Romania||Collects data and reports from polling station observers or voters, and allows access of information to the public.*|| - || - ||
+| [https://votemonitor.org Vote Monitor]  || Software ||Vote Monitoring||Romania||Collects data and reports from polling station observers or voters, and allows access of information to the public.*|| - || -
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 | [http://democracyos.org Democracy OS]  || Software || Political  ||United States ||Platform for public proposals that are debated and voted to enhance political system.* || - || - ||-
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 | [https://dcentproject.eu D-CENT]  ||Website|| Political and Economic Information ||United Kingdom ||Provides tools that allows collaborative policy making and voting.* || - || - ||-
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-| [https://votesmart.org Vote Smart]  ||Website|| Voting Assistance ||United Kingdom || provides "factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials". Website Tabs include Bio, Votes, Positions, Ratings, Speeches, Funding || - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.airesis.eu/ Airesis] ||Software|| Citizen Participation || Italy || "The Social Network for E-Democracy", "A place to report problems, propose solutions, discuss alternatives, to summarize shared decision. A powerful tool to enhance collective intelligence." - [https://github.com/airesis/airesis Github] || - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.citizenlab.co/ CitizenLab] || Software || Citizen Participation || Belgium || "We give cities and governments a digital participation platform to consult their citizens on local topics and include them in decision-making." - This is a commercial business || - || - ||-
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-| [https://decidim.org Decidim]  || Web App || Citizen Participation || Spain || "makes it possible for people to organize themselves democratically by making proposals, attending public meetings, fostering decision-making discussions, deciding through different forms of voting and monitoring the implementation of decisions." Also has a [https://github.com/decidim/decidim github] || - || - ||-
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-===Add to Above Table===
-* https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html -- "vTaiwan is a four-stage online and offline process for moving from issue to legislative enactment while building consensus among diverse stakeholders. It has been used to craft 26 pieces of legislation relating to the digital economy collaboratively between the government and the public."
-* https://horizonstate.com/ - Horizon State ("Our leading role in developing a tamper-resistant digital ballot box and engagement platform that is transparent, verifiable,")  (need to add to the above table)
-* https://voteflux.org/ -- Also see their [https://github.com/voteflux/ Github]
-* http://democracyinternational.com/ - Democracy International (We are committed to supporting active citizens, responsive governments, and engaged civil society and political organizations to achieve a more peaceful, democratic world.)
-* [https://citizens.is/ The Citizens Foundation] - A number of projects going on their [https://github.com/CitizensFoundation Github] ("The Citizens Foundation is a global nonprofit offering creative and secure open source digital democracy solutions used in over 20 countries")
-===Links===
-* https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects/ - long list of projects
-* https://www.solonian-institute.com/post/2020-sdi-digital-democracy-report
-==List of Groups to Open democracy/Improving the Government==
-This is a list of all active/semi-active/prominent groups that people have created
-* https://designingopendemocracy.com/ - currently focuses on discussions about the topic
 ==Other Apps, Software and Websites==
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 | [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/puritan-boston-tests-democracy/id1166400418 Puritan Boston Tests Democracy]  || App (iPad) ||Education ||Unites States||Provides reference to initial 60 years of Boston's history and database of it's historical events from 1929 to 1691. Includes more than 30 sites data and biological information of above 30 individuals, access to resources in congregational library and archives. || - || - || -
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-| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisconsin-democracy-campaign/id943488753 Wisconsin Democracy Campaign]  || App (iPad) ||Political Monitoring ||United States||Monitors government, advocate common good, moral values and accountability. Tracks finance in politics, runs campaigns for reforms, fair elections and democracy. || - || - || -
+| [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisconsin-democracy-campaign/id943488753 Wisconsin Democracy Campaign]  || App (iPad) ||Political Monitoring ||United States||Monitors government, advocate common good, moral values and accountability. Tracks finance in politics, runs compaigns for reforms, fair elections and democracy. || - || - || -
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 | [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outvote/id1302881906 Outvote]  || App (iPad) ||Voting Assistance ||United States ||Provides voting details, resources and discuss important issues. Help your candidate get selected through campaigns, fundraise and organizing events.|| - || - || -
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 | [https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom TurboTax]  || Software ||Tax Assistance ||United States ||Helps qualified tax payers prepare or file their state and federal taxes.|| - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.praja.org/about-us/about-praja Praja] || Website || Civil Participation || Indian || "Praja is a non-partisan organisation working towards enabling accountable governance since 1999. Praja empowers citizens to participate in governance by providing knowledge and perspective so that they can become politically active and involved beyond the ballot box. It undertakes extensive research and highlights civic issues to build the awareness of, and mobilize action by the government and elected representatives (ERs)."
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 | [https://codefor.ca Code for Canada]  || Software ||Community Networking ||United States || Connects with governments through its programs that helps them interact with the residents and businesses with digital technology.  || - || - || -
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 | [https://index.okfn.org Global Open Data Index (GODI)]  || Website || Open Data || Germany || Reports on open data sources, survey feedback and statistics. Public accessibility to Data. || - || - ||-
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+| [https://decidim.org Decidim]  || Web App || Citizen Participation || Spain || Open sourced software for the development of Citizen Participation datasets. || - || - ||-
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 | [http://consulproject.org Consul]  || Website ||Civil Participation ||United States ||Open source software platform that encourages participation by providing spaces where people can debate on topics, create proposals and more.|| - || - ||-
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-| [https://liquid.us Liquid]  ||Website ||Community Mobilization ||United States || "democratic decision making" [https://blog.liquid.us/2016/09/21/what-is-liquid-democracy/ What is Liquid Democracy?] *|| - || - ||-
+| [https://liquid.us Liquid]  ||Website ||Community Mobilization ||United States || Promotes [https://blog.liquid.us/2016/09/21/what-is-liquid-democracy/ liquid democracy] by showing information like politicians' scorecards and lists of candidates supporting digital democracy.|| - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.nesta.org.uk Nesta]  ||Website ||Digital Services|| United Kingdom || Helps provide solutions to social issues through innovative technological approaches.|| - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-stand-for/ Electoral Reform Society]  ||Website ||Political Engagement ||United Kingdom ||Campaigns to promote democratic reforms,enhance political system and strengthen public participation. || - || - ||-
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-| [https://democracyclub.org.uk/ Democracy Club]  ||Website || Electoral Democracy ||United Kingdom ||Coordinates with volunteers to gather data that are processed to create tools that provides voters election information.*|| - || - ||-
+| [https://democracyclub.org.uk/ Democracy Club]  ||Website || Electoral Democracy ||United States||Coordinates with volunteers to gather data that are processed to create tools that provides voters election information.*|| - || - ||-
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+| [https://webrootsdemocracy.org/about/ Web Roots Democracy]  ||Website ||Political Assistance ||United Kingdom || Provides research information related to voting systems and projects. || - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.theyworkforyou.com TheyWorkForYou]  ||Website ||Political Monitoring ||United Kingdom || Shows data gathered from different platforms to enable monitoring of the Parliament including the representatives' profile, votes and written answers.* || - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.idea.int International IDEA]  ||Website|| Political and Economic Information  ||Sweden ||Supports building, strengthening and safeguarding political institutions, promotes sustainable development.*|| - || - ||-
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-| [https://webrootsdemocracy.org/about/ Web Roots Democracy]  ||Website ||Political Assistance ||United Kingdom || Provides research information related to voting systems and projects. || - || - ||-
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 | [https://my.gov.au/mygov/content/html/about.html myGov]  ||Website ||Government Services || Australia || Integrates government services allowing ease of access to government related information or transactions. || - || - ||-
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 | [http://www.oecd.org/about/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]  ||Website ||Economic Information || ? ||Works to build policies for better lives, builds policies to enhance prosperity, equality and development.|| - || - ||-
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+| [https://www.idea.int International IDEA]  ||Website||Political and Economic Information  ||Sweden ||Supports building, strengthening and safeguarding political institutions, promotes sustainable development.|| - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.asef.org Asia-Europe Foundation]  ||Website || Social Cooperation|| Singapore||Strengthen Asia-europe ties, enhance mutual understanding, explore opportunities for cooperation.|| - || - ||-
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 | [http://forums.e-democracy.org/about/ E-Democracy]  ||Website ||Civil Participation || United States||Uses tool to support participation in public life, build communities and make them strong. || - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.data.gov Data.gov]  || Website ||Government Services ||United States ||Gives data, tools and resources to conduct research issues , develops web and mobile applications.  || - || - ||-
+| [https://www.data.gov Data.gov]  || Website ||Government Services ||United States ||Gives data, tools and resources to conduct research issues , develope web and mobile applications.  || - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.opengovfoundation.org/#about OpenGov Foundation]  ||Website ||Political Engagement ||United States ||Engages officials with people, enables citizens understand decisions affecting their lives, families and business.  || - || - ||-
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 | [https://adhocracy.de Adhocracy.de]  ||Website ||Civil Participation || ? || Platform enables people and communities for democratic participation. || - || - ||-
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-| [https://www.appgree.com/appgree/en/ Appgree]  ||App ||Departmental Monitoring || ? ||Provides data to let understand your customers and employees. || - || - ||-
+| [https://www.appgree.com/appgree/en/ Appgree]  ||App ||Departmental Monitoring || ? ||Provides data to let understand your customers and employess. || - || - ||-
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-| [https://liquidfeedback.org LiquidFeedback]  || Website || Voting Information ||Netherlands ||Enables people to start initiative to let others know about your initiatives, suggestion on initiative. || - || - ||-
+| [https://liquidfeedback.org LiquidFeedback]  || Website || Voting Information ||Netherlands ||Enables people to start initiative to let others know know about your initiatives, suggestion on initiative. || - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.loomio.org Loomio]  ||App ||Community Engagement ||New Zealand||Helps people discuss and make decisions together to improve cooperation and consensus. || - || - ||-
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 | [https://www.vevox.com/live-voting-app# Vevox]  ||App ||Voting Assistance || United Kingdom ||Engage participants, allows to vote, share , feedback and interact with audiences. || - || - ||-
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-===Add to the above===
-* [https://www.belenios.org/ Belenios] (open-source voting software)
-* [https://www.causes.com/ Causes.com] - US citizens vote and debate on bills
-* [https://www.isidewith.com/ isidewith.com] - US based
-* [https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/ The Open Society Foundations] (founded by George Soros)
 ==Links to Articles mentioning apps and software and websites==