Re: Civic Technology

To begin with I believe it is important for us to understand that the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Groups purpose is mainly to develop 'Open
Standards Documents Drafting'
<https://www.w3.org/standards/types/#x4-2-1-candidate-recommendation-draft>
in compliance with its 'Process Document'
<https://www.w3.org/policies/process/>.

With that in mind it would be an important first step for us to achieve a
consensual definition <https://opensource.org/definition-annotated> of
civic technology and its ecosystem's current most urgent needs in
compliance with W3C's semantic web <https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/> linked
open vocabularies (LOVs) <https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/about>
methodology.

Because of that, I think we should gather a database of civic technologies
out there to analyze them further with the due e-democracy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy> open governance
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_governance> public participation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_participation>:

   - United Nations Open Governance Tool Consul Democracy:
   https://consuldemocracy.org <https://consuldemocracy.org/>
   - Open Web 2.0 (OW2) - Open by Rule Governance Charter:
   https://ow2.org/view/About/Open_By_Rule
   <https://www.ow2.org/view/About/Open_By_Rule>
   - Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Alliance - Open Governance Guide:
   https://ospo-alliance.org/ggi <https://ospo-alliance.org/ggi/>
   - Democracia OS: https://democraciaos.org/en
   <https://democraciaos.org/en/>
   - Community Rule - Open Governance
   Templates: https://communityrule.info/templates <http:///>
   - Community Rule - Open Governance Policy Creator:
   https://communityrule.info/create <https://communityrule.info/create/>
   - Democracy Foundation - List of e-Voting, Deliberation, and e-Democracy
   Projects: https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects
   <https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects>

With a definition of civic technology, a list of its ecosystem's issues,
and its controlled vocabulary
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary>, we can think
together on the best solutions possible and how to develop them through public
international law (PIL)
<https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Public_International_Law> rule of law (RoL)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law> regulatory compliance
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_compliance> standardization
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization> under the auspices of
the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
<https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/>.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m happy to hear statements of support. It would be helpful to understand
> if you agree that the group has become
> inactive, and if so:
>
> * Are there any obstacles to being more active, or it is simply that
> people are not engaging?
> * Are there plans to change the situation? Are the Chairs in a position to
> lead the participants in a planning activity or driving engagement?
>
> In other words: what are participants in a position to do to help the
> group succeed?
>
> Ian
>
> > On Apr 2, 2026, at 2:09 PM, Felipe Ribeiro <operarioribeiro@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think it is important for this group to proceed.
> > For that purpose I share the following best open source technologies on
> the field for us to start thinking on our direction.
> >
> > United Nations Open Governance Tool Consul Democracy:
> https://consuldemocracy.org
> >
> > Open Web 2.0 (OW2) - Open by Rule Governance Charter:
> https://ow2.org/view/About/Open_By_Rule
> >
> > Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Alliance - Open Governance Guide:
> https://ospo-alliance.org/ggi
> >
> > Democracia OS: https://democraciaos.org/en
> >
> > Community Rule - Open Governance Templates:
> https://communityrule.info/templates
> >
> > Community Rule - Open Governance Policy Creator:
> https://communityrule.info/create
> >
> > Democracy Foundation - List of e-Voting, Deliberation, and e-Democracy
> Projects: https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects
> >
> > Felipe Ribeiro
> > linkedin.com/in/operarioribeiro
>
> --
> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel: +1 917 450 8783
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