WeDecide empowers communities with real-time neighborhood data, enhancing civic engagement and government responsiveness through privacy-focused civic intelligence tools.
WeDecide is the first tool to measure the real-time, neighborhood-level gap between resident needs and government action. Residents track local conditions and the impact of policies on their households, and WeDecide translates this engagement into a structured feedback loop for governments. WeDecide is built for privacy, consent, and control, and does not campaign or take sides — it helps make civic conditions clearer. Built on research in complexity, behaviour, and collective intelligence, it is designed to scale anywhere a community and a government exist.
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.
