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id: "govlab:project/project-crowdlaw-playbook"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "CrowdLaw Playbook"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-crowdlaw-playbook"
authors: ["Beth Simone Noveck","Dane Gambrell","Rose Harvey","Mark Adkins-Hastings","Sam DeJohn","Marco Konopacki","Matt Ryan","Anirudh Dinesh","Victoria Alsina"]
summary: "GovLab received a grant from The Democracy Fund to study citizen engagement for Congress and create a Crowdlaw Playbook for Congress and teach citizen engagement techniques to Members."
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# CrowdLaw Playbook

GovLab received a grant from The Democracy Fund to study citizen engagement for Congress and create a Crowdlaw Playbook for Congress and teach citizen engagement techniques to Members.

Project website: [https://congress.crowd.law](https://congress.crowd.law)

## Background

With legislation largely done by professional staff and politicians working behind closed doors, it is no wonder that rates of trust in Congress are at historic lows. Lobbyists vying for precious face time with Members and constituents’ emails and letters piling up are fueling the demand from lawmakers and the public alike for innovative and efficient ways to tap into the public’s expertise and know-how. Crowdlaw is what GovLab calls the use of the Internet to enable people to participate in one or more stages of the lawmaking process, including but not limited to problem identification, solution identification, proposal drafting, ratification, implementation or evaluation.

## Description

Sponsored by the Democracy Fund, the CrowdLaw for Congress project explores how lawmaking bodies around the world are turning to CrowdLaw or the use of new technology to foster an efficient two-way conversation with the public to the end of improving the quality and the legitimacy of lawmaking.

## Location

- United States
- Global

## Partners

- Democracy Fund

## Team

- [Beth Simone Noveck](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#beth-simone-noveck)
- [Dane Gambrell](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#dane-gambrell)
- [Rose Harvey](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#rose-harvey)
- [Mark Adkins-Hastings](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#mark-adkins-hastings)
- [Sam DeJohn](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#sam-dejohn)
- [Marco Konopacki](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#marco-konopacki)
- [Matt Ryan](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#matt-ryan)
- [Anirudh Dinesh](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#anirudh-dinesh)
- [Victoria Alsina](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#victoria-alsina)

## Additional resources

- [CrowdLaw Site](https://crowd.law/)