Re: Civic Technology

Ian,
Felipe,
All,

In addition to those ideas proposed by Felipe for the Community Group, discussing what civic technology is, the nature of its ecosystems, and their urgent needs, I would like to propose an activity of discussing the applicability of emerging W3C technologies to these ecosystems and their needs: https://www.w3.org/news/ . As one can see, recent developments, there, include: DIDs, Geolocation, and Linked Web Storage. The idea is that we could brainstorm in response to applicable new technologies, as they are reported on, at that link, and subsequently discuss how these emerging technologies could benefit the ecosystems of interest to our Community Group and their needs.

With respect to a database of civic technologies, there is: https://civictech.guide/about/ .


Best regards,
Adam

P.S.: I support any Group participants seeking to nominate themselves to the position of Chair or Co-chair and to hear any more new ideas for this Community Group.

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From: Felipe Ribeiro <operarioribeiro@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2026 7:05 PM
To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Cc: Team Community Process <team-community-process@w3.org>; public-civics@w3.org <public-civics@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Civic Technology

Ian, thank you for noticing my mistyping. Long days here.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org<mailto:ij@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi Felipe,

> On Apr 2, 2026, at 5:59 PM, Felipe Ribeiro <operarioribeiro@gmail.com<mailto:operarioribeiro@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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' in compliance with its 'Process Document'.

This is a Community Group, not at Working Group. Participation and development of specifications are governed by documents listed here:
  https://www.w3.org/community/about/


>
> With that in mind it would be an important first step for us to achieve a consensual definition of civic technology and its ecosystem's current most urgent needs in compliance with W3C's semantic web linked open vocabularies (LOVs) 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 open governance public participation:
>     • 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
> With a definition of civic technology, a list of its ecosystem's issues, and its controlled vocabulary, we can think together on the best solutions possible and how to develop them through public international law (PIL) rule of law (RoL) regulatory compliance standardization under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

The group was created in April of 2023. Has the group had success organizing discussions around these topics?

Ian


>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://linkedin.com/in/operarioribeiro>
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