Empowering civic engagement: leveraging Ushahidi for transparent and inclusive electoral monitoring and governance
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Hear Rhoda Omenya (Ushahidi) explain how Uchaguzi empowers citizens to report incidents during elections, enabling the monitoring of election-related events in near real-time.
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Tainan City Council Watchbot: empowering informed citizens through AI
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The Tainan City Council WatchBot uses the proceedings released by Tainan City Council to train its AI-powered system to analyse and respond to questions about the council’s proceedings. It provides a user-friendly interface that guides citizens to quickly find answers, accompanied by relevant meeting sources to support traceability — and is all open source.
Billy Zhe-Wei Lin from Tainan Sprout explains more in this TICTeC 2025 presentation.
What MPs really do: turning data into democratic power in Spain
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‘Qué Hacen Los Diputados’ (What MPs Do) addresses gaps in parliamentary transparency and accountability, addressing a persistent reality: public institutions often lag in transparency and accountability without citizen pressure. The project organises parliamentary data in an accessible, user-friendly format — invaluable for citizens, journalists, researchers, and civil society, and fostering informed participation.
Hear more in this TICTeC 2025 presentation by Celia Zafra and
Pablo Martín from Political Watch, Spain.
The impact of the Promise Tracker tool
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The Promise Tracker from Mzalendo Trust, launched in 2023, tracks government and opposition promises to enhance accountability and foster participatory democracy.
Hear more about its impact in this TICTeC 2025 presentation by Mzalendo Trust’s Gitungo Wamere and Caroline Gaita.
Pol.is 2.0 sneak preview
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Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning. Polis has been used all over the world by governments, academics, independent media and citizens.
Co-founder Colin Megill chose TICTeC 2025 to launch Polis 2.0 – find out more in this presentation.
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Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation
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Can tech strengthen democracy by making new approaches possible? This TICTeC 2025 panel explores the constructive possibilities of tech and democracy, to build the capacity of the engine of democratic progress, increase democratic trust and resilience, and strengthen the heartbeat of civic and democratic life.
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– Louise Crow (mySociety)
– Colin Megill (Polis / The Computational Democracy Project)
– Fernanda Campagnucci (InternetLab & University of Muenster)
– Lula Chen (MIT GOV/LAB)
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Keynote TICTeC 2025: A stronger democracy – through data, information and technology
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What is made possible by new forms of technology — especially in the civic participation space — and what needs to happen to make those possibilities a reality? Tech innovations are making political participation easier and more accessible across the globe, while open data and access to information continue to play a vital part in strengthening our democracies. In her TICTeC 2025 keynote address, Fernanda Campagnucci (InternetLab & University of Muenster) will draw on her latest research as lead of the State Capacity in Smart Cities for Online Participation (SCOPE) project.
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Localised agenda alerts create engaged, informed citizens
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Public meetings are an important part of democracy, but they are not always well-attended. Creating localised and real-time agenda alerts allows people to be engaged, informed citizens.
In this TICTeC 2025 presentation by Julia McKenna (Northwestern University, US) and Alex Cabral (Georgia Tech, US), learn how one Indigenous nation is employing natural language processing to uphold sovereignty and rights in the 21st century.
Making Pakistan’s constitution accessible through AI
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What if anyone could understand their constitutional rights by simply asking questions in their own language? Numainda, Code for Pakistan’s AI-powered legislative bot, turns this possibility into reality by breaking down the country’s constitution and legislation into clear, actionable information in both Urdu and English.
Find out more in Ali Raza’s TICTeC 2025 presentation.
Q&A for ‘Fostering usage of pro-democracy technology’ TICTeC 2025 session
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Question and answer session for the presenters of the following TICTeC 2025 presentations:
– Changing the argument for using civic technology – Rodney Schwartz (Delib, UK)
– Solving climate data deserts on the municipal level: Climate Diaries– Giulio Carvalho (Diários do Clima, Brazil)
– Dream Con: how civic tech puts citizens at the centre of constitutional reform – Thanisara Ruangdej (GG) (WeVis, Thailand)
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Q&A for ‘Defending democracy, internet freedom and digital security’ TICTeC 2025 session
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Question and answer session for the presenters of the following TICTeC 2025presentations:
– What digital security solutions [don’t] work for civil society organisations – Mykola Kostynyan (RESIDENT.ngo, Lithuania)
– Six months of African pro-democracy innovating: what have we learned? – Carl Jacobs (OpenUp, South Africa)
– New Belarus: showcasing digital innovation to strengthen democracy, transparency, and civic participation – Pavel Liber (Nation – Digital Society Platform, Lithuania)
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New Belarus: showcasing digital innovation to strengthen democracy, transparency, and civic participation
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In response to the 2020 Belarusian election crisis, New Belarus emerged as a digital ecosystem (mobile app + web platform), uniting Belarusians worldwide. Its mission transcends technology by building a resilient global Belarusian community committed to freedom and democracy, through an array of digital and civic tech initiatives.
Find out more in Pavel Liber’s presentation at TICTeC 2025.
Empowering young voters through Voting Aid Applications
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In times of increasing misinformation and declining voter turnout, particularly among younger generations, well-designed Voting Aid Applications (VAAs) can play a pivotal role in revitalising democratic engagement.
In this TICTeC 2025 presentation by Sofie Marien (Tree Company), gain insights into best practices for creating high-quality VAAs that increase (informed) voting and strengthen the electoral process and institutions, plus the latest research on the impact of such tools.
Q&A for ‘AI and governance’ TICTeC session
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Question and answer session for the presenters of the following TICTeC 2025 presentations:
– Breaking AI monopolies: building public AI as an alternative infrastructure – Felix Sieker (Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany)
– Putting the humans back in: Manchester People’s Panel for AI – Sherelle Fairweather and Becky McMillan (Manchester City Council, UK)
– Community-led AI audits: why they matter and how to start one – Matt Stempeck, Eloise Gabadou, Yung-Shuan Wu (Civic Tech Field Guide)
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Community-led AI audits: why they matter and how to start one
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Audits of AI systems looked at predictive algorithms in the criminal justice system; discrimination by ride-hailing platforms; and city-level social services — and had real impact. You too can lead audits of AI systems affecting your own communities. Together we can hold these systems accountable for equitable outcomes in the real world.
This TICTeC 2025 presentation by the team at the Civic Tech Field Guide, provides details of these audits of real-world AI systems.
Putting the humans back in: Manchester People’s Panel for AI
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The Manchester People’s Panel for AI (PPfAI), a collaborative project led by Manchester’s Digital Strategy team in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, aims to enable citizens to influence the development of new AI initiatives.
Through educational roadshows, training sessions, and panels with local service leads, the PPfAI provides opportunities for residents to learn about the ethical and technical aspects of AI and shape its use in frontline service delivery.
Find out mroe in this TICTeC 2025 presentation by
Becky McMillan and Sherelle Fairweather (Manchester City Council).
Q&A for ‘Democratic literacy and participation’ TICTeC 2025 session
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Question and answer session for the presenters of the following TICTeC 2025 presentations:
– Making Pakistan’s constitution accessible through AI – Ali Raza (Code for Pakistan, Pakistan)
– Localised agenda alerts create engaged, informed citizens – Julia McKenna (Northwestern University, US) and Alex Cabral (Georgia Tech, US)
From data to democracy: the role of DCinbox in shaping informed citizenship and government accountability
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Lindsey Cormack (Stevens Institute of Technology) presents DCinbox, an archive of every official e-newsletter sent from members of the United States Congress, with nearly 200,000 missives spanning more than 15 years. This data allows findings on political representation, public health information dissemination, propensities for legislators to emulate the style of the President, gendered communication, and more.