DDI Supported Digital Solutions
This page showcases a curated set of digital and civic tech solutions supported under the CIVICUS Digital Democracy Initiative (CIVICUS DDI). These solutions span diverse thematic areas and geographies, and are designed to strengthen civic space, enhance democratic participation, and support civil society actors in responding to emerging digital challenges. Each solution listed below reflects innovative approaches developed by partners within the DDI ecosystem.
Civic Crowdsourcing Tech
Building Digital Resilience Online Toolkit
It is a comprehensive online, AI-powered toolkit designed to empower grassroots, CSOs, CBOs, and youth activists with essential digital security and advocacy knowledge. It provides practical guidance on secure communication practices like encryption and password management, data security and hygiene, and incident response protocols.
RiskRadar
Jeunes Verts for the CiviConnect Platform's User Community - CiviConnect, Jeunes Verts
RiskRadar is an AI-driven digital risk assessment tool created to help civil society organisations identify and address their specific digital vulnerabilities. It was conceived as a direct response to the recurring issue that many organisations lack both capacity and a systematic process to evaluate their digital security posture.
CERES - ChequeaBolivia
The digital solution provides information about the candidates, including criminal proceedings, complaints, and their political careers. This will guide citizens to make informed decisions on who to vote for. It is an online platform that provides voting education to citizens.
Dubawa
The digital solution provides a platform to publish fact-checked claims regarding the Côte d’Ivoire 2025 general elections.
Quien es quien
Expediente Público / Expediente Abierto
The digital solution provides a platform to publish fact-checked claims regarding the Honduras 2025 general elections. The Quien es quien online platform provides information about the candidates and their manifestos.
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(EIWPG) initiative
As part of the Empowering Indigenous Women’s Participation in Governance (EIWPG) initiative, this solution combines an interactive online learning platform with an accessible Voice Messaging Service (VMS) to expand civic education and leadership training for Indigenous women. The platform houses a range of customised training modules focused on governance, political participation, rights awareness, and gender-responsive policy engagement—delivered in both digital and audio formats to accommodate varying literacy and connectivity levels.
Click Ciudadano
Team Alianza Tejiendo Ecuador
Click Ciudadano is a digital platform designed to address the digital divide and barriers to civic participation. The platform aims to centralize and systematize information on citizen participation and social oversight mechanisms, including their legal frameworks, procedures, requirements, and documentation.
DigiCuida
DigiCuida is a digital safety and prevention tool designed to address systemic issues related to inclusive democracy, social inequality, and the under-representation of vulnerable groups—particularly young women—in civic and political life in Guatemala. It serves as a digital protection and reporting tool that encourages women to participate freely and safely in civic spaces.
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JOS-IA
JOS-IA, developed by the Kingsoft Senati team, is an inclusive voting system that uses AI and blockchain to address barriers to democracy, such as social inequality, exclusion, and lack of representation of vulnerable groups. The prototype aims to eliminate barriers to voting, such as illiteracy, lack of physical accessibility, and mistrust in electoral transparency.
Acceso Senior
Inmigrantes Digitales + Igualdad por más
The prototype "Acceso Senior", developed by Inmigrantes Digitales and Por Igual Más, aims to reduce the digital divide and the exclusion of older adults from civic participation. This solution offers a replicable model to improve the engagement of seniors in community spaces by promoting their digital autonomy, access to political and social rights, and participation in civic life.
Ciudadanía Bajo Ataque
Ciudadanía Bajo Ataque is a secure digital platform designed to strengthen civic resilience and protect fundamental rights in contexts of repression in Peru. It integrates three key modules: an incidents map, a legislative tracking system, and a legal mobilisation hub. It enables civil society organisations, journalists, and citizens to safely report abuses and access verified legal information.
Transparency & Monitoring Tech
DigiWatch
Jeunes Verts for the CiviConnect Platform's User Community - CiviConnect, Jeunes Verts
DigiWatch is a real-time reporting tool that helps enable the monitoring, documentation, and visualisation of incidents affecting both civic space and digital rights across West Africa, like threats, violations, and restrictions, as they occur, ensuring that such incidents are recorded in a structured and verifiable way.
WhatsApp for Factchecking election fake news
União Nacional de Estudantes
The partner used WhatsApp during the 2024 presidential elections as a mechanism for reporting fake news and misinformation about the elections. The claims were researched and analysed, and feedback was provided to the complainants on the authenticity of the claim, whether it is true or false.
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iCheck
The digital solution was used to counter misinformation by IWATCH and its partners.
Efecto Cocuyo
The partner has an online platform where they share articles countering misinformation and disinformation. They also used the platform to provide voter literacy to citizens. It is an online platform for countering misinformation and providing voter education.
Observation checklist for 2025 Malawi General Elections Campaign
Democracy Works Foundation, Malawi Chapter
It is a digitalised election monitoring tool that allows the targeted end users (youth-focused CSO actors and youth observers) to monitor the specific aspects of the electoral process that will include the election campaign period and the actual polling on election day.
Promise Tracker
An advanced web application designed to automate the tracking of promises made by elected officials. The upgraded platform will assess promises across six levels: Kept, Broken, Compromised, Stalled, In Progress, or Not Yet Started, enabling citizens to easily interrogate data by sectors.
Community Organizing Tech
BudgIT
BudgIT introduced a civic tech platform designed for incident mapping, allowing for real-time reporting of election-related events, through which we recorded about 13 election incidents like voter altercations, security infractions, voter intimidation, faulty voting equipment, etc. This platform was designed to enable citizens to report and verify electoral incidents, promoting transparency and trust.
Movement Resource Center
An interactive map and learning corner, where activists of movements can connect, explore, and learn effective activism tools and techniques for community mobilisation. This digital solution will be a unique platform for social movements in Nepal that foster a vibrant civic space in Nepal by digitally bridging activists with the necessary knowledge, capacity, and resources to organise and mobilise citizens in a strategic, creative, and non-violent manner.
Gracia de la Democracia
Gracia de la Democracia is a play which addresses fundamental aspects of democracy and citizen participation and will serve as a bridge between theoretical content and practical application. It will expand learning and help to acquire tools to handle conflicts democratically.
BeeHive
The Socio-Economic Justice Initiative - MA'AN
In a context marked by political volatility and shrinking civic space, the platform is designed to uphold freedom of expression and protect Lebanese activists’ digital rights, ensuring they can continue their advocacy without fear of repression or surveillance. Beyond offering digital safety, the platform fosters resilience by enabling peer support, knowledge exchange, and coordinated action across activist communities.
Democrakit
Alma Cívica developed the Democrakit prototype to address the fragmentation and leadership crisis within civil society in Paraguay. This civic training platform is designed to strengthen advocacy and action by offering free, multi-level educational courses. The platform aims to equip users with practical tools for learning, replicating, and creating training spaces across the country.
TinkuyHub
TinkuyHub, developed by Programa ESCAPPATE, emerged as a direct response to a critical challenge: while youth groups and collectives are active across Lima, they often feel unsupported, disconnected, and unheard. This fragmentation limits their potential to contribute meaningfully to civic and social life.
Haz Match
REDECIM (Red de Cooperación Internacional Mexicana)
The prototype Haz Match OSC is a strategic digital tool designed to foster collaboration, visibility, and growth opportunities for CSOs across Mexico. It aims to address a fundamental challenge in the civic ecosystem: the fragmentation and limited connectivity between CSOs, especially those operating in isolated, under-resourced, or emerging contexts.
Civic Participation Tech
Online course on human rights tailored for youth in Kyrgyzstan
Civics
The designed online course on human rights tailored for youth aims to empower Kyrgyz-speaking individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to advocate for human rights, promote democracy, and create positive social change.
Digital governance-hub
A capacity-building programme, a digital governance hub and a website hosting some of the training resources like videos and training manuals and other tools meant to enhance learning for the youths to harness the power of these diverse digital technologies in promoting democratic and governance values.
A digital solution for collecting and analysing data.
A functional digital solution to collect, process and analyse qualitative and quantitative data regarding the needs, resources, actors and community's perceptions about democracy and civic participation. It is used in local communities with limited access to the internet and technology equipment to collect, process and analyse data and connect it with decision-makers.
Aprende con Chispa
Colectivo Ajxicaj
Aprende con Chispa was developed by Colectivo Ajxicaj, a youth-led group working to advance inclusive democracy in Guatemala. This solution aims to reduce social inequality and counter the exclusion and under-representation of vulnerable youth, particularly Indigenous and rural populations, in civic and political processes.
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Citizens Voices Africa
Citizens’ Voices Africa, a civic engagement platform is a youth-led tech company that aims to amplify marginalised voices, especially youth, persons with disabilities, and underserved communities, by providing an inclusive, multilingual, AI-powered voice platform that facilitates civic participation. Key features include voice-first navigation, accessible civic tools, multilingual support, and AI-driven disinformation detection.
LEXI AI
Jessica Renalde and Gyebre Bryce Joseph Emeric
The solution is an intelligent AI chatbot designed to make legal information accessible to all citizens in Burkina Faso. It works by allowing users to ask questions about their rights or legal issues in everyday language. The chatbot responds by quoting relevant law articles and explaining their meaning in simple, easy-to-understand terms.
Voices Unheard
Abongdoh Maluyane Titus, Akem Aurelia, and Atem Randy
Voices Unheard is an innovative initiative aimed at empowering displaced youth affected by the Anglophone conflict in Cameroon using technology. The ongoing conflict has caused widespread displacement, disrupted community cohesion, and silencing many young voices in civic and democratic processes.
Civ Con
onald Kizza
Civ Con is a multi-platform civic engagement solution developed to enhance democratic participation and digital inclusion in Uganda, particularly in rural and underserved communities. The platform utilises a combination of SMS, short codes, mobile applications (iOS and Android), and web dashboards to facilitate direct communication between citizens and Members of Parliament (MPs), enabling real-time feedback and issue reporting.
CallBot Citizen
Prosper Doko, TCHAOU Donald, Edwige Adjobo, and Odounlami Borgais
Call Bot Citizen is an innovative voice technology platform designed to empower rural populations in Africa by facilitating democratic engagement through accessible voice communication. Recognising that a significant portion of rural voters—over 65%—lack understanding of electoral laws, CallBot aims to bridge this gap by providing a simple, offline-first voice agent accessible on any phone.
