The Daimaruyu Town Voice Project uses Liqlid, a Japanese browser-based citizen-participation and deliberative consensus-building platform by Liquitous, to gather workers' and visitors' ideas on Tokyo's Otemachi–Marunouchi–Yurakucho district and feed them into placemaking decisions.
The Daimaruyu Town Voice Project uses Liqlid, a Japanese browser-based citizen-participation and deliberative consensus-building platform by Liquitous, to gather workers' and visitors' ideas on Tokyo's Otemachi–Marunouchi–Yurakucho district and feed them into placemaking decisions. Launched in October 2025 (building on an April 2025 pilot under Tokyo's "Be Smart Tokyo" program), it uses AI text-mining to visualize submitted input, allows anonymous posting without login, and gates voting behind (anonymous) registration, applying to a private business district a civic-participation tool Liquitous also runs for municipalities like Kamakura, Kyoto, Hino, and Kisarazu.
True Causes is a web tool for group root-cause analysis at scale: everyone writes causes alone, the group links them pair-by-pair at 75% agreement into a shared map whose "roots" are what to act on, digitising the decades-old Structured Democratic Dialogue method.
The Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative is a new Harvard Kennedy School program (in the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, led by Danielle Allen) helping local governments use technology to strengthen democracy, transparency, and citizen engagement, with an early output being Open Book, a free open-source municipal budget-transparency tool.
Zeitgeist is a public-deliberation platform from Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that combines qualitative group discussion with quantitative polling in one experience, letting governments and charities run scalable, engaging consultations.
Joycotter is a collaborative "worldbuilding game" for real-world activism, built around the "joycott", a conditional commitment ("if this exists or this change happens, here's what I'll do") that makes latent demand and support visible before anyone risks building the thing.
