With the Swiss Local Chapter, we are creating a shared home for all Swiss actors around Decidim.
Local Chapters are regional branches of the international Decidim community. They enable exchange at the local level, the pooling of strengths and know-how, and a stronger voice within the global Decidim ecosystem. With the Swiss Local Chapter, we are creating a shared home for all Swiss actors around Decidim. This Local Chapter – the first in the Decidim ecosystem – we want to found together with you.
A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.
Democracy .one is a nonprofit "civic social platform" that turns people's civic opinions into structured Polls, Scores, and Ranks, clusters differently-worded expressions of the same position together, and aggregates them into a continuously-updating, comparable measure of public opinion it calls the "Civic Mirror."
Chattanooga has launched a pilot with Google's Jigsaw and Change.org called Civic Dialogue, that gathers residents' ideas on parks and transit, then uses "Sensemaking AI" to surface the proposals with the broadest support before a group of residents workshops them into policy.
