CitizenLab

CitizenLab

Open-source, privacy-focused tools for civic action, enabling informed conversations via AI and promoting democratic engagement through decentralized petition and manifesto management.
Application
Applied on: 16 Apr 2024 08:40 AM
Approved
User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 16 Apr 2024 09:03 AM
Project is creating impact through public goods, civic service, civic works, civic innovations or civic utilities.
CitizenLab's work on the citizen.chat and pact.social platforms aligns with the creation of public goods and civic innovations that facilitate informed civic engagement.
Project exhibits clear relevance to the broad framing of civic innovation.
The project's focus on enhancing democratic processes through tools for communication and petition management demonstrates relevance to civic innovation.
At least one project steward is a member of OpenCivics consortium.
There is no information provided on the membership status of the project steward within the OpenCivics consortium.
Project team size and skills correlates to use of funds and desired impact.
Insufficient information on the project team size and skill set in relation to the project’s budget and intended outcomes.
Project demonstrates a clear track record of previous work.
Based on the provided recent activity from GitHub, there were no commits in the past 3 months, suggesting a lack of recent evidence for a clear track record of previous work.
Project must agree to participate in co-development of collaborative and grantee accountability protocols as part of their impact reporting process.
There is no explicit indication of agreement or willingness to participate in the co-development of such protocols as stated in the application requirements.
Project adheres to OpenCivics Ethical Standards and Pledge.
There is no provided evidence to confirm adherence to OpenCivics Ethical Standards and Pledge.
Project stewards pass OFAC screening process.
The information necessary to confirm whether project stewards have passed the OFAC screening process is not available.
Optional: Project is encouraged to include focus on collaboration between projects or on tools and infrastructures for collaboration.
The project's description indicates a focus on tools such as citizen.chat and pact.social that promote collaboration and governance, which corresponds with this optional criterion.