The phenomenon appeared in 2008 in the United States during Barack Obama's campaign-the term 'civic tech' has been widely used there since 2013. The term made its way to France in 2015 and was deployed by the French media during the 2017 elections. Around 50 civic tech tools are currently in use in France.

Change.org, one of the most renowned civic tech tools, is an American online petition website used by 185 million people across the globe, eight million of whom are in France. Voxe, software to compare election campaigns, has signed up 4.5 million internet users since its launch. Of the €23 billion that public institutions worldwide spend on institutional IT, Civic tech already represents €5.7 billion. In the United States, investments in this sector expanded 14 times faster than investment in traditional technologies between 2013-2018.

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